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If you have a severe mental illness, think about how many times you’ve been told to take an incredible amount of accountability for the way your symptoms hurt or even just inconvienced people. Or scared them, when their fear was rooted in ableism?
Then think about how many times people who have hurt you, especially while you were in crisis, have been encouraged to take accountability for their actions? Even though they may have had power over you at the time?
Think about how many times your diagnosis was used as a blanket excuse for the hurt they caused you. Think about how many times even the smallest of symptoms, like rapid speech or anxiety attacks, were cited as examples of your “toxicity”?
Think about how many times romantic, platonic, or even familial love was dangled in front of you as a “reward” for healing yourself. And by healing, they meant basically eradicating your mental illness completely, promising to never have symptoms again.
Think about how many times you’ve been abandoned, with someone telling you that “you have to love yourself before someone else can love you,” despite the fact that this is literally untrue.
We cannot survive without the love of other people, so why do we encourage people to
We cannot survive without the love of other people, so why do we encourage people to
Start from a place of deprivation and isolation rather than a place of abundance and community?
I’m gonna stop this thread now because any longer and I should probably be getting paid, but you get the picture.
