#romanticizing mental illness

[i-just-wanted-to-be-loved]

Okay so if we're being real, I am definitely guilty of romanticizing my trauma, but like. What else am I supposed to do with it? Without a story, without a beautiful tragedy, without feeling poetic about the pain, it's just. You know. Pain. Horrible, unending pain that doesn't make any sense.

Like I really wanna just be a mysterious character with a tragic backstory. It sounds so much cooler than the reality of being me.

#traumacore #ventcore #romanticizing mental illness #in my villain era

[flibbertiigibbet]

Tiktok becoming old tumblr 2.0 is kinda sad

The amounts of teens once again publicly romanticizing their EDs, SH and mental illnesses in general is so dangerous and sad, almost infuriating tbh because not only does it affect them, it affects younger kids on the app and other teens that doesn't feel like they're "sick enough" to purposely make themselves worse

Tiktok is insanely anti-recovery and I despise "mental illness" tiktok because of it

#tiktok #anti recovery #romanticizing mental illness #stop romanticizing it #you deserve good things #get help

[unravelingwires]

Sutures and Flower Petals

I’ve fallen in love with the lines on my hands. I’m enamored with the way they spill and twist, wrapping around my wrists and curling into my palms.

The love, that’s easy. I’ve never had a reason not to love. It’s the caring that matters, but that part’s—tricky.

The lines on my hands aren’t bends, they’re seams. It’s a rare piece of clothing that’s made from one piece. There’s this idea that tears come from outside sources and are held by the lucky few. There’s this idea…

My mother’s best work isn’t made from nails and hair. She can craft with them, but doesn’t love them enough to focus. Her early lessons were all of stolen time and smudged graphite. Of the hair, the nails, chapstick and clips and bright, incongruous colors, my mother’s first lesson was how to sew. She wanted to be a surgeon, once. It’s easy to imagine her with a scalpel, a needle, her hair pinned up and blood on her gloved hands.

Sometimes, when I breathe, I can feel something blooming inside of me. It wraps around my ribs, my lungs, presses against my skin. The seams stretch and widen, but they don’t snap, not anymore. Not yet. They’re brilliant, gaping and straining, criss-crossed with bright thread—yellow and purple, for my sister, white and gold, for my mother, brown and green, for me. I don’t paint over the seams, like you’re supposed to: hair and nails, it’s all exhausting. I know the rules, but what’s the point?

Isn’t it lovely? People are not clay or skin or broken glass. We may not be molded, but we can embroider. We can break and remake. Isn’t it lovely, that we may sew and sew and snap?

#Sutures and Flower Petals #tw: self harm #Considering how stylized this is I don't know how relevant that is but it's better to be safe #mild body horror #surgery #anxiety #depression #mental illness #but specifically like #romanticizing mental illness #pretentious #symbolist art #poetry #words words words #creative writing #my writing

[mentallyillbullshit]

WHY DO PEOPLE FUCKING ROMANTICIZE MENTAL ILLNESS

IT IS NOT FUN. IT IS NOT QUIRKY. IT IS NOT FUNNY.

im not talking about making jokes about mental illness, i do that all the time, so as long it's not triggering anyone

i'm talking about all the people who are saying that being mentally ill is 'so quirky' and 'not like other people'

mental illness fucking sucks. it is not fun. i would do so much to make it stop. do not invalidate everyone's experience

edit: i'm specifically talking about neurotypical people who romanticize mental illness

#tw caps #mental illness #vent #i think #idk #quirky #stop romanticizing it #romanticizing mental illness

[mcclellancholy]

I don’t understand the concept of romanticizing mental illness. having a tornado of obsessive and intrusive thoughts about suicide, adoption trauma, not being good enough, and wanting to slam my head through a wall FUCKING SUCKS. like, it’s literally taking everything in me rn to not kill myself but y’all can go ahead and make mental illness look rly beautiful and desirable, whatever.

#tw suicide #tw trauma #university #sad #me #adoption #romanticizing mental illness #fuck #depression #im unwell :)

[healingwgabs]

saw a video where a girl said "Romanticizing mental illness is evil" and although she didn't really go into further detail about what she meant, I do have to agree, something in me resonated. more on this later, will explore this discomfort i feel...these gut alarms?? R usually insightful and right?

#romanticizing mental illness

[will-pilled]

#“Disabled allies” when people with disabilities actually suffer and it's not just some kind of romanticized version with watered down #symptoms they see on TikTok and people with “bad” mental illness and disabilities more often than not actually need support and care #It's anti ableism until it's not convenient for them. #Leftist #Leftism #Bpd #Borderline #borderline personality disorder #schizophrenia #schizo spectrum #Actually autistic #Bipolar #Bipolar disorder #antisocial personality disorder #Narc abuse #Narc abuse isn't real #NPD #narcissistic personality disorder #Personality disorders #Mood disorders

[make-death-proud-to-takeus]

Maybe I'm not introverted, maybe I want community, gossiping over a glass of wine, coffee shop dates, dying in some club's dirty bathroom, knowing half a city and saying hello to my favourite restaurant waiter; maybe I got too badly burned too young, just got too scared, settled for living in numbing comfort

#dark academia #chaotic academia #art #aesthetic #academia #dark romanticism #light academia #writing #quotes #literature #introvert #introversion #autism #adhd #social anxiety #actually mentally ill #big city life #coffee #coffee shop #spilled ink #anxitey #ambivert #artist #writers on tumblr #mine

[rosariumpartone]

quote from Pan’s Flute ⚜︎

#poetry #poem #spilled ink #sad quotes #nostalgia #sadcore #sadgirl #heartbreak #heartache #girlblogging #book quotes #mental illness #dark academia #light academia #girl interrupted #typography #depressing quotes #romanticism #dark academia aesthetic #pan's flute

[petrichor-moss-and-lightning]

having adhd (or just generally being forgetful) is so fucking frustrating because you’ll lose something you literally just had in your hand and then proceed to go on a 45 minute quest to find said lost thing. meanwhile, you’re both the detective and the suspect, just trying to follow clues and patterns that make no sense. i’ll lose something, then grab my brain by the collar and go, “where tf is my charger. u just had it”. and my brain will just be like:

#actually adhd #adult adhd #attention deficit disorder (add) #attention deficit hyperactivity disorder #object permanence #forgetfulness #I hate it so much I have to hunt through clues as though it’s not my own brain and my own lack of object constancy #some nts will be like aw adhd is so cute and quirky meanwhile I’m fist fighting my hippocampus and defective dopamine receptors in an arena #adhd is in no way cute or quirky I break down crying on the regular bc it’s just so incredibly frustrating to not be able to remember #if u romanticize mental illness or neurodivergency I will steal all your bones

[chloe-creating]

“I grew up with books that almost made me wish I had cystic fibrosis, cancer, depression […] I wish I felt the slightest bit romantic or loveable now that I’m sick.”

- @UnthinkableThingsNovel

#book quotes #book quote #quotes #romanticism #mental health #mental illness #chronic illness #lgbtq #anxiety

[eye-of-the-tigerseye]

Lisa Frankenstien is to me what Jennifer's Body was to millennials what Heathers was to Gen X and I think there's something sacred about that.

#something something female rage but the rage is just murdering people #also just the nuance that whitecishet men ignore #Lisa isnt a tribut to Dr. Frankenstein shes a tribute to Mary Shelley #i have a lot of thoughts and feelings on the mental health vs literature vs romanticization of mental illness in artists #that i wont go into bc this is tumblr #and no one wants to hear how the new cult romcom relates to thesis #but i LOVE her okay? #lisa frankenstein #lisa frankenstein 2024

[honeypleasejustkillme]

i’m insane but in the sexy way

#this is what i’m telling myself from now on #and no i’m not trying to romanticize any disorders.. i just personally don’t know how to cope anymore without telling myself my symptoms #make me sexy or unique because i can’t handLE LIVING LIKE THIS ANYMORE #actually bpd #bpd problems #bpd vent #actually borderline #actually mentally ill #bpd fp #bpd #bpd shitposting #bpd favorite person #bpd mood #this is somewhat a shitpost

[aesthetic-otd]

Today's aesthetic is lobotomy chic

#aesthetic #aesthetic blog #aesthetics #aesthetic otd #aesthetics blog #aesthetic community #aesthetic blogs #Disclaimer: this aesthetic is considered problematic due to its association with the romanticization of mental illness

[xbuster]

“You’re telling me that your mental illness makes you think and act in ways normal people wouldn’t???? 🤯🤯🤯🤯”

#i hate the romanticization of mental illness on the internet dear god

[sappy-sabbath]

as a society can we stop making mental illness/neurodivergency trendy and romanticized. i know more mf who faked claim than ppl who actually had the condition. at the end it just makes the people who are diagnosed with the condition the butt of the joke or look disingenuous.

ALSO IF I MAY be real for a sec!!! it’s because of the “destigmatizing XYZ 🥺” tiktoks and self diagnosing that make this happen, i know they are good intent and not all people have resources but its one thing to be concerned about your mental health and another to claim to have a disorder that you haven’t been diagnosed with!

autism, ADHD, schizophrenia, BPD, bipolar disorder, psychosis, OCD have all became quirks than serious debilitating condition and as someone with ADHD and psychotic depression IM SICK OF ITTTT, it’s different with things like depression and anxiety bc you experience that at least once in your life but it’s getting out of hand

#mental health #neurodivergency #actually mentally ill #mental heath support #mentalheathawareness #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #romanticism #tw fakeclaiming #fakeclaimers dni #anti fakeclaiming #fakeclaiming mention #fuck fakeclaimers #fakeclaiming cw #destigmatization #self diagnosis #self diagnosed autism #self diagnosed adhd #self diagnosers #autism #autistic spectrum #adhd #actually adhd #schizophrenia #schizoaffective #bpd #bipolor #psychosis