This. People need to understand this!
Seriously people. The next time that I hear”Oh I must tidy up, I’m so OCD today” or “Oh she’s up one minute and down the next – she’s so bipolar!” I am going to stuff my walking stick right up that person’s asshole and turn them into a fucking lollipop. I swear I am.
Listen up people. Suffering from mental illness is no triviality and neither is it a fucking joke. I have struggles with several mental health issues, OCD and bipolar being two of them, so it really does set my teeth on edge when I hear someone coming out with an off the cuff, totally fucking moronic comment like that.
When we said we wanted mental health disorders to be spoken about more, we didn’t mean for you to appropriate them into your everyday conversations.
Lately (and unfortunately), it is becoming something of the norm that mental health…
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as a bipolar survivor day in and day out – this resonates. thank you so very much my friend.
Peace and Equality and Love and Respect and Justice for All ✌ ✊ 👍
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Yeah most people who suffer from any form of mental illness can probably relate to this and that’s why I felt like I needed to share this post.
Peace and Equality!
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and what a powerful post it is – brilliant and timeous and hits right where it should … warmest wishes and stay well, friend …
Peace always ✌
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Thanks and same to you!
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Peace ✌
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That is so true – trivialising mental illness is so wrong.
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Yes definitely!
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I’m glad you wrote this post Pooja. People do joke about it like it’s normal and it’s not right. Only people who are going through it know what what it feels like. TC. Hugs.
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Yeah people think it’s like a quirk or cute but it’s not. People who actually have the disorders have a really hard time with them and people need to understand and respect that.
Hugs!
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I have nominated your blog for The Sunshine Blogger Award :-).
Details can be found here:
https://culturevultureexpress.wordpress.com/2018/03/26/culture-vulture-express-wins-the-sunshine-blogger-award/
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Thank you so much for the nomination I’ll definitely check it out!
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