[ SECRET POST #1691 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1691 ⌋


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


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 13 pages, 314 secrets from Secret Submission Post #242.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 3 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 1 - repeats ]
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Sure. Maybe they should have tried harder. However parents are just human. If they have a child that is old enough to take care of themselves and who acts whiny/silent/sad etc and they try to help but only get shot down it's much easier to think she's just being "emo" than having a mental ilness. It's human to make mistakes. Lots of teenagers are moody. And if said teenager in addition to this refuses any help and puts up resistance I think I'd assume she was just a teenager being, well, a difficult, hormonal teenager. Especially assuming that her illness had no severe outer signs. For example; someone with severe panic attacks would be easier to spot because it looks like they can't breathe and it's really physical. Someone with a mild to moderate depression could be quite mentally ill without it ever showing. I don't think there is a big character flaw of someone's parents to not want to help someone who does not appear in dire need of help and that in addition acts childish by refusing the help offered.

[(Anonymous)]

someone with severe panic attacks would be easier to spot because it looks like they can't breathe and it's really physical.

My friend has severe panic attacks, sometimes very publicly. Even the people related to him tell him to "get over it", and fervently believe that it's something he can control. His depression has always been pretty severe, and sometimes I think he may have more problems than just that.

I wish I were making this up, but I am not, and again, it's really not that simple. Sometimes dealing with him isn't fun, and sometimes it makes me really mad at him even though I know it's nothing he really has any control over, but I stick by him.

He has had really unpleasant experiences with psychologists and psychiatrists alike, and his family only seems to take it seriously as a last resort for when they don't know what else to do with him. Other than that, he acts somewhat "normal" most of the time, but visible severity isn't always the biggest issue, especially if the people around you do NOT believe you.

I am willing to give the users above a lot more credit for what went unsaid as well as with what was said, and am also willing to bet that they didn't even mean their comments to be taken to this extreme to begin with.

Whatever. I think it's a character flaw for parents to just give up because someone puts up a "bit" of resistance, tbh. What I think is human is when they are at the end of their ropes, don't know what to do, and might not be able to do anything to the point where they have to withdraw for the sake of dealing with their own stress.

Maybe I just have ridiculous expectations.

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Where did I ever claim it doesn't happen to people with panic attacks and similar things? Oh, wait, I didn't. What I did say is that it's more understandable to not take seriously an illness with no real outer signs. If your kid had severe panic attacks and you didn't try and help them even if you saw them lying on the ground struggling to breathe I would judge you WAY more than someone who did nothing when their teenager seemed moody or sad. That's all. Not helping someone who put up resistance when having a mental illness like depression is extremely understandable.