there is something profoundly obnoxious, not to mention insulting, about having been diagnosed professionally, in an inpatient setting, after years of trauma due to my mental illness, multiple episodes that nearly ended my life, episodes that destroyed my relationships, my grades, and my hope for a normal future, only to go into years of intensive and extensive therapy, unpack the consistent and horrific trauma i suffered that caused me to develop this mental illness, to try and recover, while taking heavy medications, anti-psychotics that have left me with permanent problems, to come on the internet and be forced to see people who i know, in my heart of hearts, are 100% faking the mental illness that almost killed me, to be cute, cool, quirky, or to pretend they are whatever fucking character from media that they are most attached to right now.
i seriously thought we left the trend of faking this disorder behind on livejournal but no. it's alive and well all over again, thanks to the fucking t*kt*k shit where having weird, rare mental illnesses is now Content and great for Clout. knock it the fuck off.