[ SECRET POST #1353 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #1353 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

101.


__________________________________________________



102.
[starlight express]


__________________________________________________



103.


__________________________________________________



104.


__________________________________________________



105.


__________________________________________________



106.


__________________________________________________



107.


__________________________________________________



108.


__________________________________________________



109.


__________________________________________________



110.


__________________________________________________



111.


__________________________________________________



112.


__________________________________________________



113.


__________________________________________________



114.


__________________________________________________



115.


__________________________________________________



116.


__________________________________________________



117.


__________________________________________________



118.


__________________________________________________



119.


__________________________________________________



120.


__________________________________________________



121.


__________________________________________________



122.


__________________________________________________



123.


__________________________________________________



124.


__________________________________________________



125.


__________________________________________________



126.


__________________________________________________



127.


__________________________________________________



128.


__________________________________________________



129.


__________________________________________________



130.


__________________________________________________



131.


__________________________________________________



132.


__________________________________________________



133.


__________________________________________________



134.


__________________________________________________



135.


__________________________________________________



136.
[Knightmare]


__________________________________________________



137.
[Instant Classic]


__________________________________________________



138.
[Jimmy Carr]


__________________________________________________



139.
[TGWTG]


__________________________________________________



140.
[SPN]


__________________________________________________



141.
[Elizabeth Edwards]


__________________________________________________



142.


__________________________________________________



143.
[RENT]


__________________________________________________



144.
[1TYM]


__________________________________________________







[ ----- SPOILERY SECRETS BELOW ----- ]





145. [SPOILERS for Batman: Arkham City]



__________________________________________________



146. [SPOILERS for Mass Effect 2]



__________________________________________________



147. [SPOILERS for as the world turns]



__________________________________________________



148. [SPOILERS for Kuroshitsuji II]



__________________________________________________







[ ----- TRIGGERY SECRETS BELOW ----- ]





149. [TRIGGER WARNING for rape]



__________________________________________________



150. [TRIGGER WARNING for suicide]



__________________________________________________



151. [TRIGGER WARNING for chan/lolicon]















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #193.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 1 2 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 3 4 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - hitshipspiration ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom.livejournal.com]

123. http://i51.tinypic.com/219s8cj.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

Stick with the meds OP
You won't believe me but there comes a point when you get okay with being in the real world, and you can still have your fantasies too. It just takes a while.
-Someone who's been there too

[(Anonymous)]

That rather depends on the person. As the OP says, in fact meds don't work for everyone. Not that I'm encouraging the OP to give up, but I can understand how they feel to some extent. Sometimes finding yourself in the isolated, miserable reality that people with very severe mental illness tend to exist in just makes you want to kill yourself. If I had a bad long-term prognosis, I'd prefer staying "mad" enough to live in a fantasy world instead, too.

[gershwhen.livejournal.com]

EVERY med doesn't work for everyone. Medication is more an art, than a hard science. And it takes time to find the right combination. If something doesn't work, try something else. THERE IS BETTER OUT THERE!!

[wordfuzion.livejournal.com]

I've started coming back out of a decade-old shell this year, and it's great, but I can honestly say I don't think I could function in the "real" world without my fantasy worlds to retreat back into. It's nice to know I always have at least one safe place to go, no matter how crappy the real world gets. :)

[(Anonymous)]

I understand how you feel, but you really need to take a minute to think about your family and friends. Whose going to take care of you while you're off in your own little world? How will your loved ones feel when you totally retreat into yourself?

Talk to your doctor - maybe there are some other medications you can try. I'd also suggest non-pharmacological ways to improve your life. Get a (real life) hobby, go back to school, do something that will make your real life better.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought I was beyond getting provoked by this kind of idiotic nonsense, but obviously not.

You're a brainless, heartless idiot, and I hate you with every fibre of my being.

Next time, go tell a cancer sufferer to pull themselves together, think of their family and get a 'real hobby'.
I'm so disgusted I can't even type anymore. Despicable, evil bastard.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sorry that I upset you so much. But I've been where the OP is: for years I refused medication, because my lovely fantasy world was so much better than reality, and because those medications had some pretty awful side effects. I ended up on disability, living with my parents, and doing fuckall with my life. Then my father got sick and my mother told me that she couldn't take care of the two of us. She issued an ultimatum: take medication, go to therapy, and contact OVR or she'd kick me out. After a lot of childish temper tantrums, I did what she asked. Right now I'm doing what I told the OP to do: taking medication, going to therapy, and trying to find a way to live independently.

[(Anonymous)]

I'd also suggest reading the Burden of Sympathy. Your mental illness doesn't just effect you, and just ignoring the impact your decisions have on your loved ones is the height of selfishness.

Get in!

[(Anonymous)]

Get in there before it's too late! You want to spit on someone and feel superior, or just toss of some patronising advice, but you're afraid your friends will call you out for being racist or sexist?

Go for -- The mentally ill -- the last group left it's acceptable to blame, shame and piss on from a great height.

Re: Get in!

[(Anonymous)]

Um, I am mentally ill, you patronizing fuckwit.

[(Anonymous)]

I just know this secret is going to get a lot of patronizing responses from people who assume you haven't tried to magically cure yourself from what sounds like it is serious mental illness.

I hope your life isn't truly doomed to suck, but given some of the people I know, and the social stigma of mental illness, I can't blame you for feeling this way.

[caelith.livejournal.com]

Everyone loves you when you're normal.

[fierceawakening.livejournal.com]

Not true at all.

[caelith.livejournal.com]

It's a Spike Milligan quote.

[trinity-destler.livejournal.com]

Don't let other people define reality for you. Live where your life makes sense.

[(Anonymous)]

This comment is the best. You don't owe anyone anything, don't ever think you do. Do what you want, as long as it doesn't impede on anyone else's ability to do what they want.

[(Anonymous)]

I like you.

[demiincarnate.livejournal.com]

That'd be lovely if it didn't mean this person would be unable to function for themselves. One needs to agree with society's definition of reality in order to earn an income, pay the bills, and so forth.

[(Anonymous)]

similar situation and escape mechanism. i had a mental breakdown and before i was sent away to get "fixed", i experienced fiction like nothing else. fiction was my high and my drug and it felt incredible. after getting "fixed" i don't feel anything nearly as strongly...not for fiction or real life. i miss it so much. i miss feeling so strongly.

[(Anonymous)]

I've never had that kind of experience. I always thought that there was always a downside to that in that there might be nightmarish scenarios that keeps unfolding even when you want it to stop. If they're all fun and pleasant then I get wanting to be there.

[trinity-destler.livejournal.com]

Also: everyone should watch Don Juan de Marco.

It's the only piece of media ever to express what I've always felt about who decides what's "real" or worthwhile.

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't seen the movie, but it sounds like a Magical Crazy Person to me. Those movies ignore the real problems mental illness can cause, have the character's psychosis make them wise (yes, a mentally ill person can be wise, but it won't be caused by their disability), and of course this wisdom will only be used to help a healthy person Learn an Important Lesson.

[trinity-destler.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's really not what it's about at all. There's the grain of that train of thought, but the film ultimately completely subverts it.