#tw depressing stuff

[iwannaperfectbody]

[tofumarinado]

it's so funny to me when i see pearl-clutching articles about how "teenagers are diagnosing themselves with mental disorders via tiktok" because like. this is not happening in a vacuum. teenagers are severely and i mean severely medically neglected. i cannot stress this enough. teenagers do not have free access to medical care. those same news outlets would be clowning on women with housewife psychosis in the 1950's.

i sometimes go pale when listening to some of what my friends have gone through in their childhoods and teenagehoods. they talk about it so nonchalantly, things that would be considered straight up torture if done to an adult, can't fathom the effect this has on children. they are on multiple anti-psychotics and several antidepressants and anxiety meds now that they are adults. medical neglect has legally and effectively disabled them. a timely diagnosis and intervention could have saved them.

of course teenagers are self-diagnosing using tiktok. if your knee-jerk reaction is to scoff at the idea and dismiss it as dumb teenager shit instead of being radicalized because the best shot young people have at attaining the mental health support they need is a fucking dancing videos app, you're categorically a political enemy of the youth.

[trainsandpaperplanes]

anhedonia which comes and goes

[eounally]

Mentally, physically and emotionally exhausted.

[elzuuur]

I feel uncomfortable in my own skin

[sickfrr]

Coping? nah I’m raw dogging life with untreated mental illness

[lilithhhm]

i hope one day i’ll finally have the courage to kill myself

[mentally-ill-loser-rants]

the way I can go from.normal to suicidal is crazy