Disgusted with a world where someone is told they are victimizing themselves for speaking up against abusive treatment.
Where someone is called a spiteful coward for ending an unhealthy friendship.
Where someone is told their negativity from lifelong depression and mental illness is draining and exhausting.
Where cruelty is shrugged off as something deserved for being damaged. .
Where someone is told to fix themselves to avoid the heartless actions of toxic people. Not that toxic people should reconsider their actions towards others.
Where someone is told they are responsible for the harm others have caused them.
Where no one finds it necessary to take another person's feelings into consideration or to treat someone with kindness and respect.
Where everyone is so obsessed with being right that they don't care who they hurt in the process.
You don't get to decide if you have been rude or hurt someone. You don't get to decide if someone is worth the effort or some kindness. We are all born worthy of love and decency.
You can read all the books in the world, talk to all the therapists in the country, study mental illness extensively. But the only one-size-fits-all course of treatment that you will ever find is kindness, compassion, understanding and patience.
Will the stigma from mental illness ever be lifted or will we just continue to cause irreparable damage to each other? I don't intend to stick around to find out. Farewell.
