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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2011-07-10 03:51 pm

[ SECRET POST #1650 ]

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(Anonymous) 2011-07-11 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Commenters:

Stop hating on a suicide survivor for believing something that is widely believed around the world and that plenty of scientists have done research into, with not-entirely-dismissive results (particularly look into ESP tests by parapsychologists, there is some data there that shouldn't be that way if it was just a delusion).

Is this person a medium? Who knows. We don't have enough information to evaluate this particular situation.

Do people who see the dead exist? Heck yes, and they don't fit the normal model of hallucinations, which is why they aren't automatically labeled as crazy and forced into therapy.

I grew up in a haunted house. I saw ghosts. Anyone who stayed in that house and had the slightest reputation for being "psychic" saw the same ghosts. People who weren't psychic didn't see anything but they always felt "weird" without even knowing the stories, and odd things happened to them.

I have fucking scars from the time when I went through a disbelieving phase and stopped taking the proper precautions! One ghost pushed me off a high place when I refused to get out of its way! I have learned not to disbelieve through painful experience.

Unless the house itself has some kind of scientificly-explained ability to produce hallucinations and odd events in everyone who stayed there, regardless of whether they'd heard the stories or not, and then everyone who visited immediately became sane again as soon as they left (which is not how insanity works, okay?), then it isn't a fucking mental illness, okay?

Just because some belief doesn't fit in with your experiences and what you've been taught of reality, that doesn't mean you get to toss insults like "crazy" at someone who holds those beliefs.

This is especially vile to toss those sorts of insults when that person is a suicide survivor and recognizing this part of themselves is what helped them to step away from suicide.

(Anonymous) 2011-07-12 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
...perhaps you and the OP can visit a psychiatrist together?

[identity profile] citrusy-fun.livejournal.com 2011-07-12 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
...perhaps you shouldn't psycho-analyze people.

(Anonymous) 2011-07-13 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps everyone who ever stayed in my childhood home can go visit a psychiatrist together and explain why they were perfectly fine until they were there, temporarily became "insane" even if it was just for a day, and then became suddenly cured as soon as they left? Even if they'd never heard the stories?

I've never seen a ghost except for in that house, even when I lived there. If I was crazy and hallucinating, I should have seen at least one ghost in one other place, don't you think?

Now that I no longer live there, I don't see ghosts.

There are plenty of other haunted places that have the same effect on people.

This is nothing like the pattern that a mental illness presents!

I'm glad I'm gone! The guy who lives there now lost his arm in a freak accident shortly after moving in.