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And one more thing, I've been very tolerant with some of you but just because this is an ultra casual thread doesn't mean you can just say what you want to some people.
It costs literally nothing to be a decent human being and empathy goes a long way if you can provide it.
I'm rather disappointed in the thread tonight, not that it particularly matters coming from me.
Not just anything that may or may not have happened today, but for a while y'all have been lowkey cultivating an environment where it's acceptable to put people down. I get it with some things, but the extent some of you take it is absolutely absurd and you should be ashamed of yourselves.
Also Captain Falcon deserved a god damn echo fighter.
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This guy.
We should listen to him.
That’s good, I’m not about to become some sort of.... serial SRS surgeon.
Then you've got nothing to worry about. Like I said, just be honest with your therapist and make an active effort to change yourself and you'll do great. You've already taken big steps, and you should be proud of that. I know I am.
To be fair, I don't think most people, even those who work with or have mental illness, really know much about it.
That's fair. I would say it's mainly due to the variability mental illness has. While there are similar underlying causes, the effects are so drastically different from person to person that it can be difficult to come to a consensus on what a mental illness actually is and what it actually does. Even I doubt my own experiences with mental illness sometimes, but that's mainly because I'm removed from the worst of it.
I went to a mental hospital once when I was 14. I actually really enjoyed it. It was nice, relaxed, and friendly. The only bad experience was that the first night there I was really scared (I wasn't actually told much in advance about where I was going or why), and I pressed the buzzer for help, only for some unpleasant young woman to show up and not really care about my emotions and tell me that the buzzer is only for emergencies. When I told another staff member about that, they said that was wrong and shouldn't have happened.
Otherwise, I had a very nice, peaceful time. When I told my therapist I wanted to go back, she was actually surprised and a little concerned, because no one's ever wanted to go back before. Most people apparently hated it, for some reason.
Are you actually just me?
I look back on my days in the mental hospital with fondness. Compared to the turmoil that my life was before entering, it was...calm there. I read a lot of Calvin and Hobbes since the hospital let us bring books from home, and my parents knew that I enjoyed them and thought they would help.
There's a strong sense of empathy among people there, or at least in the teen ward that I was in. We all knew we were in there for something messed up, and it made talking to each other much easier.
Also, people who shuffle cards as a coping mechanism are actually gods with a deck of cards. Don't @ me.