Ten years from now there will be a bunch of personal accounts of how a cohort of mostly well meaning therians using the term "physical therianthropy" and who didn't like being told no, accidentally discouraged a bunch of kids from seeking out the mental health support they needed and created opportunities for p-shifter cults and other bad actors to take advantage of a bunch of vulnerable people who were primed to listen when they were told to only trust the abuser who was telling them what they wanted to hear.
This is dangerous rhetoric, and if you're on the edges of it, please employ critical thinking and don't let other people (including me) tell you what to believe about your experiences. If you're happy and stable and doing fine, then whatever works for you, works for you. Unconventional beliefs do not automatically mean you need mental health treatment.
But regardless of where you sit on the alterhuman spectrum, if you're not okay and you feel like you need help, don't let it be only from strangers on the internet who (intentionally or otherwise) encourage you not to reach out to anyone but them.
The reason this rhetoric is dangerous isn't because it encourages delusions. It's because it encourages social isolation.
Exactly so, and importantly, if someone else doesn't know they are at risk and they're one of the people watching you talk on Tumblr, you also do not know they are at risk. If you have neither experience with mental health issues nor personal knowledge of a person, you have absolutely no idea whether or not they are at risk.
And while you can't be totally responsible for how people will misunderstand what you say on a public forum like this, you do have a certain amount of accountability for not being totally irresponsible. If you tell people to drink bleach and someone does, that absolutely is on you. If you tell people that physical shapeshifting/non-humanity is a thing and they jump off a roof because they think they can fly and you said that people who think they're physically non-human are right, that's also at least partially your fault.
