Because now mental health disorders have gone “mainstream”. And for all the good it’s brought people like me who have been given therapy and stuff, there’s a lot of bad it’s brought too. Because now people use the phrase OCD to describe minor personality quirks. “Oooh, I like my pens in a line, I’m so OCD.”NO YOU’RE FUCKING NOT.“Oh my God, I was so nervous about that presentation, I literally had a panic attack.” N O YOU FUCKING DIDN’T.“I’m so hormonal today. I just feel totally bipolar.” S H U T UP, YOU IGNORANT BUMFACE.Told you I got angry. These words — words like OCD and bipolar — are not words to use lightly. And yet now they’re everywhere. There are TV programmes that actually pun on them. People smile and use them, proud of themselves for learning them, like they should get a sticker or something. Not realizing that if those words are said to you by a medical health professional, as a diagnosis of something you’ll probably have for ever, they’re words you don’t appreciate being misused every single day by someone who likes to keep their house quite clean. People actually die of bipolar, you know? They jump in front of trains and tip down bottles of paracetamol and leave letters behind to their devastated families because their bullying brains just won’t let them be for five minutes and they can’t bear to live with that any more. People also die of cancer. You don’t hear people going around saying: “Oh my God, my headache is so, like, tumoury today.” Yet it’s apparently okay to make light of the language of people’s internal hell. Holly Bourne
Love, like madness, can only fill the models that society makes available.
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Neel Burton
PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which causes many veterans and others to execute themselves in hope to be free.
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Stanley Victor Paskavich
The maladies of the spirit alone, in abstracto, that is, error and sin, can be called diseases of the mind only per analogiam. They come not within the jurisdiction of the physician, but that of the teacher or clergyman, who again are called physicians of...
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Ernst Von Feuchtersleben
To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.
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Jeanette Winterson
Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.
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Allie Burke
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