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unscheduled reminder:

not! everything! is! a! mental! illness!

saying this shit legitimately endangers the lives of people who actually have mental illnesses. it endangers the lives of people with cluster b personality disorders.

stop armchair-diagnosing people on the internet.

especially unasked for. armchair diagnosis when the resultant guess is a cluster b personality disorder is particularly harmful and abusive, especially if it's shared publicly without the individual's consent.

even if you're a health professional or mental health professional, armchair diagnosis via the internet is unethical. random people on the internet, whole swathes of people who exhibit one behaviour that you've singled out, whatever, aren't your client/patient.

people with cluster b personality disorders are often excluded, told that they are too 'difficult' to treat, abused, and demonised. many of them just want to deal with their shit and have a good life, same as the rest of us.

moreover, stop equating mental illness and mental health conditions with the polarity of good vs bad and what makes someone a bad person. a diagnosis by itself does not automatically make someone into a bad person, and the narrative that it does is abusive and harmful to otherwise vulnerable individuals.

some people aren't willing to go through treatment or do bad things influenced by their condition. that's a thing that happens, sure. however, that doesn't mean that every single person with whatever condition is going to turn out to be an axe-murderer any more than if I said that every person with brown hair is, or every person named Jennifer. sorry to the first Jennifer that reads this, it's the name that came to mind.

also stop armchair un-diagnosing people too. again, you're not their mental health professional, and you have no idea about what's going on off-screen camera left. all you can know on the internet about someone is what and how they present themself, which may be wildly different than how they are in real life!

but like seriously. my mental illness is not your insult or new trendy catchphrase. #MentalHealth #MentalHealthAwareness #MentalHealthCheck #MentalHealthMatters #MentalHealthSupport
#MentalIllness #StopTheStigma