[ SECRET POST #6205 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6205 ⌋

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[Xenoblade 3]



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[YA Book fandom/Cait Corrain scandal]



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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The Cait Corrain scandal is actually really complex and disappointing for my household bc my wife actually was friends with Cait before Cait was a BNF, although they'd sorta drifted apart over the years. It sucks to see the way that BNF-dom and living in LA fuck with a person's head, bc Cait was the friend who would help buy my wife food and stuff in college when my wife couldn't afford to eat, and BACK THEN at least Cait was someone who was really aware of their privilege and tried to advocate for folks around them who were getting passed over and dismissed.

I also know that for as like drama llama as the mental health claims seem, Cait is actually someone who is legitimately really troubled and has been their whole life, like "made it through college bc they could do outpatient mental health institutionalization and had their first suicide attempt in elementary school" level troubled. It doesn't excuse ANY of this bullshit, mind you, but I don't think Cait's lying about their terrible brain health making them paranoid or whatever.

I dunno. It's disappointing and sucks.

[feotakahari]

Makes me think of Tatsuhiko Takimoto. He pushed through enough of his issues to write a beloved novel about being too scared to leave your room, and it made him enough money that he could buy what he needed without leaving his room. As of three years later, he still felt like a “parasite” and wanted to change, but willpower alone doesn’t cure mental illness.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I hope she gets the help she needs and understands how wrong and hurtful her actions were.

[(Anonymous)]

SA
Yeah, me too. Being the main character of the internet does no one any favors for their mental health, but her whole behavior with this thing was fucked up and unacceptable.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean. I wouldn't go so far as to say she's faking the mental health issues, but it's disingenuous of her to try and blame those mental health issues for her actions, especially the racist aspect of all this.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I dunno. Mental illness definitely can affect behavior, and it can make someone more susceptible to prejudicial points of view. I think we've gotten this idea that mental illness is just, like, depression or anxiety; but there are disorders that are really, really detrimental and harmful, not just to the person who has one of them, but to those around them.

That said, the adage, "mental health is not your fault, but it is your responsibility" applies. If she's aware that she has these issues, then she needs to do what she can to mitigate the damage to other people.

NAYRT

[(Anonymous)]

IMO it was really detrimental for people to try and destigmatize mental illness by overemphasizing that it can never have ANYTHING AT ALL to do with violent or harmful behavior. No, people with mental illnesses shouldn't be treated badly because of it, but you can't just automatically rule out someone's mental illness as a contributing factor to something bad that they've done "because it was still their choice and you're making everyone with a mental illness look bad."

[(Anonymous)]

We had a client who grew up in a really racist household as a child, whenever his mental health declined he always resorted to racist behavior and statements. When he was in the functional part of his cycle, he was fine and he hated, genuinely, hated that behavior, the furthest thing from a racist, but, because of his background, when he started to decouple they became his "comfort" behaviors because of his upbringing. He just resorted to old patterns because he no longer had the level of insight and capability to recognise the wrongness of them. They were just familiar patterns which he was used to and the repetition of those patterns was a familiar comfort in his disturbed state.

I don't know the person this post is about, but people can absolutely say the most despicable shit in a mental health crisis simply because those patters were such a major part of their upbringing. It is not because it is who they are, but because human beings crave familiar routines and, in stress situations, we often fall back into familiar routines and patterns as a way of trying to maintain control of our own brain.

TL;DR? Mental illness doesn't make you racist, but racist behaviors can be one of the symptoms of a mental health crisis.