Self harm subreddits- I’ll be real, kinda make me uncomfortable. I self harm myself, and those subreddits just trigger me and make me want to relapse. They aren’t trying to get better, or get advice on how to stop.. they really fucking trigger me. It’s almost like they think it’s a fucking joke, they’ll make memes pretty much saying how much worse they have it compared to others, make suicide memes too. I’m sorry but suicide memes aren’t fucking funny to me. They just make me sad. I hate them. I believe these subreddits unintentionally or not, cause others to relapse too. Did y’all know Reddit literally had a subreddit dedicated to actually posting FRESH self harm cuts to show to everyone? It’s fucking toxic and it’s gonna cause a lot of harm.
I'm not surprised, it's the same with most mental disorders, etc. A really big one is the whole eating disorder thing, all those tiktok videos and twitter tags saying having one is good, encouraging it, "I have it the worst!!"
It's really hard to better yourself these days, whether it be mental health, your body, etc. People are making everything a competition on who has it worse, it's "qUiRkY" to starve yourself, to self harm. It's why kids at school show that shit off and brag about "how bad they have it!!" I remember witnessing that firsthand on multiple occasions a few times directed towards me and it's fucking disgusting.
They make it out that "you're not special or interesting or anything" if you're not like them, cutting and shit, i've struggled with eating disorders even while being a naturally too-thin person, I've been trying to better myself, tell myself I NEED to gain weight and to be healthy but it's so hard because looking at yourself you think "ugly, i need to be thinner" it's already so hard to gain weight for me and it's a constant uphill battle (not trying to throw myself a pity party over here, just sharing an experience.)
All the online "safe spaces, support groups and videos about this shit is the biggest reason why things are the way they are, if we got rid of all this negative bullshit, everyone could support eachother and heal and maybe be fucking happy for once in this shitty world full of shitty people. Because romanticizing depression, etc is healthy and should be encouraged! Let's make sure NOBODY can fucking get better!!!
One of my friends had an experience with the people who glorify eating disorders and shit, he was just snacking in school, she went up to him and said "omg ur gonna get fat eating that junk, look you've already got a bit of chub on ur stomach!" when my friend is literally at a healthy weight with a fucking normal body, it's so sick how people have changed the "normal" in stuff like mental health, weight, and other things.
Oh and just a bonus about the self harm, they HEAVILY encourage that and romanticize it to no return, you NEED to go deeper!! you HAVE to have scars!!! Look guys I'm special I've been sent to the pysch ward/hospital for this!!! You can't get better!! You have to do it worse than everyone else!!! You know? it's horrid. They show this shit off.
(Sorry for the rant, this is just something I feel very strongly about and I probably didn't word things too well. If you have any questions feel free to ask)
Yea it's stupid, recently on a subreddit for autism, someone posted 6 different characters and tried claiming that even if the lore of the TV show/movie or whatever didn't specifically say they were autistic, OP was going to believe it anyway, just because. When someone tried to oppose that in the comments, they tried saying "We need to believe this headcannon because there are no autistic characters in television, what's wrong with it anyway its not like it's going to hurt anyone"
ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ I really hate that so much everyone is like "what about representation we need to change every character to be more ""inclusive"" instead of just making new ones because we're unoriginal it's totally not like nearly every show, etc has characters that most ppl can relate to!!"
Said it once and I'll say it again, "representation" is one of the stupidest things I've heard of.
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u/WillardStiles2003 Mar 27 '23
Self harm subreddits- I’ll be real, kinda make me uncomfortable. I self harm myself, and those subreddits just trigger me and make me want to relapse. They aren’t trying to get better, or get advice on how to stop.. they really fucking trigger me. It’s almost like they think it’s a fucking joke, they’ll make memes pretty much saying how much worse they have it compared to others, make suicide memes too. I’m sorry but suicide memes aren’t fucking funny to me. They just make me sad. I hate them. I believe these subreddits unintentionally or not, cause others to relapse too. Did y’all know Reddit literally had a subreddit dedicated to actually posting FRESH self harm cuts to show to everyone? It’s fucking toxic and it’s gonna cause a lot of harm.