Oh you love that musician that wears a strait jacket in a music video?
Oh you love haunted house attractions that are 'insane asylum' themed?
Oh you love that horror movie where the villain is portrayed to be psychotic?
But do you respect and care for mentally ill people who have been restrained because they were a danger to themselves or others?
But do you respect and care for people who are constantly in and out of psych wards, or have to live full time in psychiatric facilities?
But do you respect and care for people who have psychotic disorders, especially if they are poc and/or homeless?
Do you see us as real people, or do you just like the aesthetic of our suffering for your entertainment?
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Reason to Live #10531
One day you'll have a house with a porch. – Guest Submission
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my heart goes out to you if you're a disabled person who has a complicated or negative relationship with sleep. if you need to sleep a lot but can't due to life circumstances, or sleeping extra causing other symptoms to flare up. if you can't sleep enough due to pain, or nightmares, or psychosis, or bipolar, or depression. if you sleep way too much and find it hard to stay awake. if you can't fall or stay asleep. if you need medication in order to be able to sleep. if you don't feel rested from sleep. if you wake up a lot in the night. if you have bladder or bowel accidents while asleep. if you twitch or convulse or move too or get injured in your sleep. if you can't control your sleep schedule no matter what. if you can't sleep during "normal" sleeping hours. if you can't sleep for 8+ hours straight but can sleep for shorter amounts of time. if sleep is what you need but for one reason or another you just can't or refuse to do it.
i care about you. your disabilities deserve to be seen and acknowledged
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I'm so utterly & so completely obsessed with you, my lighthouse,
always searching, yet never finding, to seek is to remain hopeful:
beneath the fragments, the chalice of trust dwells much deeper,
& the loyalty I have for you is something so pathetically single;
am I good enough for you to stick by through the rainstorms?
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The reason I'm so opposed to designing "Monsters based on mental illnesses!" aside from the obvious (really really easy to fall into stigma, stereotypes and risking generalizing an entire group of people) is. Because simply put even among two people with the exact same diagnoses they'll have Wildly different experiences with said mental disorders /neurodivergencies / illnesses. It simply will always be so.
Instead I'd probably just moreso approach it by having each of the persons mental illnesses/diagnoses be represented by their own personal entity. Like a guardian demon or similar. Because even though I know maybe three people with ocd, we all have differing experiences and compulsions in our day to day lives that can't be swathed over by just one representation of and "Ocd monster". And this goes for everything.
So yeah maybe more like. Everyone having their own monster, some of which belong to the same classes (so people with the same diagnosis but still differing experiences)
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Reason to Live #10542
Learning skills at any age! – Guest Submission
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