"I'm perfectly able to hold my own hand."

[greygirlbeast]

Some crazy shit going on right now at the University of Rhode Island's main campus, where Spooky's dad works. The university is (or was) on lockdown over the possibility of a shooter, though it now appears to have involved a fake gun

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[cucumberseed]

The cold of this spring is starting to alarm me.

[andrian6]

I remember listening to a piece on NPR - I think it was from This American Life where a man described suffering from crippling depression, but received nothing but jeers and scorn from friends and family when he tried to seek treatment.

And then, he developed cancer. He said it was a relief - not almost a relief, but a true lifting of a weight from his shoulder - because now, everyone around him believed it was OK for him to be severely depressed.

A world where people's treatment of mental illness is so reprehensible, cancer is a better alternative is a world which deserves a good extinction level event. Or two.

[nellorat]

I have to get an icon for the living dead

[elmocho]

I thought from your link on Facebook that the Outrage Brigade was coming after you for daring to be snarky about mental illness.

One of the things I really liked about The Drowning Girl was the refusal to be pollyanna about mental illness. I've family with personality disorders, and I have had average-issue dystrophy spiking into major depressive episodes, but I honestly can't abide some of the relentless enforced cheerfulness of those treating it: It's like they've moved to more correct paradigms, so the old ones can't have any validity, and are seen as a symptom of, rather than an observation on, the illness.

[greygirlbeast]

Why the fuck do you even care what they say?

Because - though I understand how stupid this is - it hurts.

[ladyblue56]

Fuck. I am saddened and angry to read there is bullshit snarking going on at your expense. Even if it is stupid, it hurts because is personal and lobbed right at us.

You need to do what is best for you but damn the shitheads - their cruelty also costs the ones of us who are decent and will miss reading your entries.

I wish you the best.