**A Not-So-Love Letter to the people who write characters with mental illness that are considered ‘edgy’ or ‘scary…
Dear writers,
It’s me, your neighbourhood friendly schizophrenic suffering from a plethora of illness and disorders; you know, the edgy OC you’re trying to write with the backstory that’s #Dark, except I’m real. Your OC is a badly written fictional take on what it’s like to live with psychosis.
I get it. You wanna write a dark theme. Fine.
You don’t have to throw people who are suffering from mental illnesses or disorders under the bus to do that though.
Illnesses and disorders aren’t your aesthetic.
You’re being part of the problem; you’re literally what’s making it difficult for us to find access to help, and you might think “Oh, but Cecil! I’m just a blogger!”
How many friends do you have? How many friends do you have that have praised you for writing a character with mental illnesses or disorders? How many friends do you have that go, ‘Wow! Yea, I totally get why your character’s so fucked up now!’
Now multiply that number of friends by 1,000.
Millions of people in the world think and feel the same way you do because I, as well as other people dealing with disorders and illnesses, or psychosis, are constantly dehumanized, and ridiculed to be of lesser minded.
Because our voices are dismissed.
Exactly like this post is going to be dismissed.
Stop throwing us under the bus.
Stop shutting us down from speaking up.
Stop making us feel like our illnesses are taboo talk.
We NEED to speak up, we’re DESPERATE, but instead we’re just made into some #Edgy #Aesthetic to your shitty OC’s tragic backstory.
Sometimes voices say dumb shit to me; one time I forgot the fucking name for “Youtube” and all I could hear echoing was “Boobtube, boobtube, boOOB tUBE, BOOBTUBE”
And then I finally remembered it’s call Youtube.
Stop throwing us under a bus. Listen to us before you try to fucking write us.
That’s all I’m gonna say.
This is fine to reblog. In fact, please reblog it. I understand if you don’t want to though.
P.S. Sociopathy isn’t even a term used professionally for diagnosis anymore. It’s become better understood, and most people formerly diagnosed with sociopathy are actually NPD, so stop using that word, and go do some actual research on NPD.