Do people really think mental illness is cool? Really?

 
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It's been a fair bit of time since I first went public with my "condition", and though it's gradually tapered out I've pretty much been met with charges of trying to be edgy or cool virtually throughout all of that time.

I can understand why people would think somebody would do that, but does anybody apart from a few sperglord basement-dwellers actually think mental illness is somehow desirable? Is it specific to any sort of illness?

I don't get it, to be honest. I've never seriously met somebody who though it'd be cool to be mentally ill. I can see why somebody might believe that in relation to my own - I make no secret of not having much of a problem with it, although it is by nature ego-syntonic - I still don't think any normal person with a decent grasp of it would find it in some way agreeable.
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No. I've never envied someone for having a mental illness.


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People think mental illness is cool?


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As someone who suffers from a few mental illnesses, it's not cool. People who think that having a mental illness is cool should go fuck themselves.


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It's because most people on the Internet with "mental illnesses" are just using it in lieu of an actual personality.


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The angel agreed to trade a set of white wings for the head of another demon. Overjoyed, the demon killed one of his own and plucked the head right off its still-warm body.

The angel then led the demon to heaven, where he underwent centuries of the cruelest tortures imaginable. Finally, the pain was so great that he lost consciousness - at which point his dark wings turned the promised shade of white.
I dont get it either.


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I know what you mean, and I don't get why people do it. I don't know why anyone would want to be depressed.


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When I was younger, I actually enjoyed being depressed.
Then you weren't actually depressed. This post makes you seem like a fucking idiot.


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When I was younger, I actually enjoyed being depressed.

And currently, I think it'd be the best ever to be able to become a psychopath at any moment. It would definitely make things a lot easier.

And I also deeply admire autistics (save for Deci Omega) not because of their higher intelligence but because of how abstractly they're able to think.

You've clearly never been fucking depressed.


 
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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
No, I actually have to agree with Dustin on this one.

There can be a level of masochism in Depression.


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When I was younger, I actually enjoyed being depressed.
Then you weren't actually depressed. This post makes you seem like a fucking idiot.
I'm sure it's possible something else was going on, though I highly doubt your internet arm-chair diagnosis from a condition I had over five years ago is going to carry much weight.
Yeah, keep spewing shit you know nothing about. I'm sure you're used to it.


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You've clearly never been fucking depressed.
I wish that were true...

inb4 posting in the sympathy box

Sympathy box? Nah, I don't care for that shit. Maybe you were actually depressed, maybe you just described it wrong. Either way, I'm an idiot, I know.


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When I was younger, I actually enjoyed being depressed.
Then you weren't actually depressed. This post makes you seem like a fucking idiot.
I'm sure it's possible something else was going on, though I highly doubt your internet arm-chair diagnosis from a condition I had over five years ago is going to carry much weight.
Yeah, keep spewing shit you know nothing about. I'm sure you're used to it.
You don't need to get so angry just because I don't value your opinion as much as you'd like me to.

Again, I'm sure you have a point that I may not have been depressed, but it's not like I've never been depressed before.
Not angry, just annoyed. Depression is the literal antithesis of "enjoyment", and if you claim that you liked it, you simply haven't had it. There's a lot of things happening mentally when you have clinical depression, but joy is definitely not one of them.


 
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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
Not angry, just annoyed. Depression is the literal antithesis of "enjoyment", and if you claim that you liked it, you simply haven't had it. There's a lot of things happening mentally when you have clinical depression, but joy is definitely not one of them.
Enjoying something =/= being joyful.

Again: masochism.


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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
There's people who think having a mental illness is cool?
There're people who claim that people pretend to have mental illnesses in order to appear cool.

I'm trying to find out if people actually think mental illnesses are cool.


 
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You'd be surprised.

There are people out there that think that having a mental illness makes them a special snowflake and pretend to have one.


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ayy lmao
I think being gay is pretty cool.


 
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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
You'd be surprised.

There are people out there that think that having a mental illness makes them a special snowflake and pretend to have one.
I know, I'm questioning the quantity of such people.


 
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This is not the greatest sig in the world, no. This is just a tribute.
But it's cool to have no emotion and be cold and calculative about human lives!


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Too many people wear a superficial coat of depression to be "cool" I suppose.

There's nothing cool about depression.

Perhaps the only thing that's even remotely cool about it lies in the character required to confront the illness everyday.


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Some people think being a psychopath or sociopath makes you more awesome abd mainly look to characters like the Sherlock Benedict Cumberbatch plays or Deadpool. It is not a good thing to look at but also if someone has it not something to feel horrible about. You will have to live with it and learn how to be a decent human being with the issues you have.


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