[ SECRET POST #1998 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1998 ⌋

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

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10. [SPOILERS for the Hunger Games]



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[Hetalia]


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14. [WARNING for gore, animal abuse]
http://i.imgur.com/SjfD3.jpg
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[Video Games Awesome Live]


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[Avatar: the Last Airbender]


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[American Horror Story]


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18. [WARNING for dub-con, grooming, brainwashing]



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19. [WARNING FOR general discussion of triggery topics (there's bound to be triggering material in the comments)]


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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 1 (warning for rape) - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fadeinthewash]

It seems like almost nobody has an accurate understanding of how people with mental illnesses function

To be fair, most people don't have an accurate understanding of how people with any kind of illness or disorder function, nor how the disorders themselves work and what they're really characterized by. They're generally most accepting/respectful of the more conventionally physical types, though (...unless it's weird/rare/obscure/has prominent unpleasant effects, then it's right back to wide-eyed horror).

[(Anonymous)]

Anon from this same thread: The difference between the understanding of a physical and mental disorder though is different. If someone doesn't know something about a physical disorder, they're going to still see it and be sympathetic. Whereas almost everyone has misconceptions about mental disorders from the time they start consuming media.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, I love you, but I'm seriously eyeballing you right now for that episode with the mental patient.

Lots of people either assume you're completely batshit or they assume that since they can't see anything then you're fine. You have to be really careful about who you tell that you have a mental illness. I have been extremely fortunate and no one has hurt me yet, but I have to be very careful. I would never be able to tell, say , my boss about my mental illness like I would about a physical illness. The former could make me disrespected or even fired.

[fadeinthewash]

If someone doesn't know something about a physical disorder, they're going to still see it and be sympathetic.

Physical disorders aren't always superficially apparent, though.

I know/agree/did say that people react differently to mental vs physical things. It's just that people are ignorant as hell about things they don't personally have to handle, generally, so in terms of raw knowledge alone, they aren't really that much more backwards re: mental disorders, which is what I was trying to get at. But yes, what little they (think they) know does tend to be more problematic than with physical ailments.

[fuchsiascreams]

Yeah, that's true. Though I agree with you: everybody understands and can empathize with someone who had cancer; I don't think most people can empathize with somebody who has a mental illness. I have a mental illness and even I can't understand other mental illnesses sometimes (though I guess that isn't the same thing as thinking that it doesn't exist).

[(Anonymous)]

You could read up on it. One of the most fascinating/alarming things I've found is I normally relate best to characters and celebrities I later realize could very well have mental disorders. I always assume they have bipolar disorder, since otherwise why would I connect with them, but, reading medical journals and the DSM-IV, I've so far diagnosed one character with borderline personality disorder and paranoid schizophrenia, one celebrity with narcissitic personality disorder, and a second with borderline personality disorder with histrionic personality disorder characteristics. Obviously, I don't know these characters/people, but it's a way of coping and it makes me feel a little less fucked up.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt and i do this too, but i hope you don't speculate about that too much in public about illnesses you don't have because i have a disorder and i'm really sick of people "diagnosing" characters with it.

but yeah, i definitely have characters that i think have a particular mental illness because i relate and it makes me feel better since there's almost no good representation.

[(Anonymous)]

Uh, no. Sometimes I'll mention in fandom discussions speculations on a character's mental health, but that's about it. I really don't talk about my or anyone else's mental health irl. It's more of a "wait, why do I identify with this character so much" that turns into "these traits make me worry and were central to my diagnoses or remind me strongly of other mentally ill people I know" to "this and this are right, but this is wrong for bipolar" to me looking up various mood disorders.

[fuchsiascreams]

..omg. I do that, too. I MEAN, I REALIZE I'M NOT A HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL AND THAT I'M PROBABLY WRONG, but it's somehow comforting to know that there are other people who suffer, too. Sometimes I Wiki lists of celebrities who are bipolar, or BPD, or depressed, or anxious, or who committed suicide, or who are bisexual, and just read and read and click names and read biographies for hours.

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same, except i stay away from the suicide bios and read ftm/mtf bios instead

[fuchsiascreams]

Oh! That's a good idea.. I think I'll do that right now. I remember reading about Laura Jane Grace a few weeks ago and really enjoyed it.