Because if I don't experience it, it must NOT be real!
So I was reading the "what this doesn't cover" section of a travel-insurance policy, and it says: mental health disorder (such as anxiety, depression, psychosis, etc.), or any related physical symptoms.
Because, seriously, those are all in their head, so they can just suck it the fuck up and get over it, right? And no one ever really has debilitating physiological symptoms from the stuff going on in their heads, they just fake it. You know, for the attention. Because it's SO MUCH FUN to pretend that you feel like you're going to die, or that you're hearing voices that tell you vile things, or that you hate yourself so much that you're pretty sure that you shouldn't be alive. I mean, I know I do it ALL THE TIME, because it's just that great.
And when Bev has her episodes of disassociation and talks back to her auditory hallucinations, I mean, that's just a fucking laugh RIOT. Everyone gathers 'round and just has a grand old time, listening to her mumble and watching her try to leave the house in nothing more than a coat and one sock when it's 15 degrees out! And she only does it because she doesn't think people are paying enough attention to her, you know. Because she's even more of an attention whore than her oldest daughter.
*headdesk* I swear to GOD: sometimes I really, really wish that I could change places with the assholes who write these policies, just so they'd understand why their policies are bullshit. And of COURSE there are going to be idiots who try to game the system and claim to be ill when they're not--that's a time-honored tradition stretching back to the first proto-human who faked being sick to get out of having to go hunt/gather. Thing is, severe mental health issues -- debilitating depression, psychoses/neuroses that require medication, anxiety that leaves you paralyzed and physically unable to do what everyone else around you is doing without thinking much about it -- are incredibly hard to fake in the long term. I don't think I could actually fake a panic attack, though I could describe it; I know I couldn't fake what happened to me in June... And I'm the one that had to live through it.
Because, seriously, those are all in their head, so they can just suck it the fuck up and get over it, right? And no one ever really has debilitating physiological symptoms from the stuff going on in their heads, they just fake it. You know, for the attention. Because it's SO MUCH FUN to pretend that you feel like you're going to die, or that you're hearing voices that tell you vile things, or that you hate yourself so much that you're pretty sure that you shouldn't be alive. I mean, I know I do it ALL THE TIME, because it's just that great.
And when Bev has her episodes of disassociation and talks back to her auditory hallucinations, I mean, that's just a fucking laugh RIOT. Everyone gathers 'round and just has a grand old time, listening to her mumble and watching her try to leave the house in nothing more than a coat and one sock when it's 15 degrees out! And she only does it because she doesn't think people are paying enough attention to her, you know. Because she's even more of an attention whore than her oldest daughter.
*headdesk* I swear to GOD: sometimes I really, really wish that I could change places with the assholes who write these policies, just so they'd understand why their policies are bullshit. And of COURSE there are going to be idiots who try to game the system and claim to be ill when they're not--that's a time-honored tradition stretching back to the first proto-human who faked being sick to get out of having to go hunt/gather. Thing is, severe mental health issues -- debilitating depression, psychoses/neuroses that require medication, anxiety that leaves you paralyzed and physically unable to do what everyone else around you is doing without thinking much about it -- are incredibly hard to fake in the long term. I don't think I could actually fake a panic attack, though I could describe it; I know I couldn't fake what happened to me in June... And I'm the one that had to live through it.