Oh please
Just about everyone has clinical depression, bi polar, anxiety attacks, panic attacks. You name it, someone you know "has it". I'm sure the amount of labels for a medical diagnosis make you feel like a kid in a candy store.
But in a world of constant competition for the saddest, most fucked up child where attention and praise are the prizes, where over exaggerating stories of daily "dramas" will get you an appointment with a councilor, who the fuck actually has something wrong with them? Who's really having the panic attacks, and who's just stressing out a lot like any other normal person? Who's really suffering from being at their highest one minute then suddenly for no reason at all feeling at their lowest and even suicidal (manic depression), and who's just got bad PMS? Who's really got the guts to blow their brains out with a gun, and who's just bluffing?
And yet, even with these terrible actors, these fucking liars that are just thirsty for someone to care about them more than anyone else, we're still giving them the attention they want. We're still at their aid when they cry ever so publicly. They'll never learn.
So what happens to those who actually have something wrong with them? The ones who have a chemical imbalance in their brain that they can't help, the ones who suffered years of physical or sexual abuse, the ones who actually find them selves at the edge of a cliff looking over an ocean, with rocks and bricks in their back pack, ready to jump without looking back.
I'll tell you what happens to them. They often go unnoticed because they're not going to as much trouble for attention as the "actors". All the sympathy and attention goes to those who lie. The ones with an actual problem will still often go unnoticed. Does that sound fair to you?
Your self diagnosis will never fool me.
But in a world of constant competition for the saddest, most fucked up child where attention and praise are the prizes, where over exaggerating stories of daily "dramas" will get you an appointment with a councilor, who the fuck actually has something wrong with them? Who's really having the panic attacks, and who's just stressing out a lot like any other normal person? Who's really suffering from being at their highest one minute then suddenly for no reason at all feeling at their lowest and even suicidal (manic depression), and who's just got bad PMS? Who's really got the guts to blow their brains out with a gun, and who's just bluffing?
And yet, even with these terrible actors, these fucking liars that are just thirsty for someone to care about them more than anyone else, we're still giving them the attention they want. We're still at their aid when they cry ever so publicly. They'll never learn.
So what happens to those who actually have something wrong with them? The ones who have a chemical imbalance in their brain that they can't help, the ones who suffered years of physical or sexual abuse, the ones who actually find them selves at the edge of a cliff looking over an ocean, with rocks and bricks in their back pack, ready to jump without looking back.
I'll tell you what happens to them. They often go unnoticed because they're not going to as much trouble for attention as the "actors". All the sympathy and attention goes to those who lie. The ones with an actual problem will still often go unnoticed. Does that sound fair to you?
Your self diagnosis will never fool me.