why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

Actually they're sometimes signs of a propensity toward mental illness or a lack of regular activity

good try though, encouraging image

i thought that said to post it at least once a day. that would definitely make people anxious.

5-year-old John Lennon is currently wanting to be happy in Turkish on my news feed. Mutlu olmak istiyorum too, but you don't see me bragging about it.

Nope, I have all those things. Definitely a sign of weakness.

I think this every time I see it! "Fuck you, I was weak and dramatic and felt like this and then I got over it by being amazing instead. STFU."

http://i.imgur.com/gZjLr.jpg

"having tried to remain strong for too long"

hm, yes, what a precise and insightful diagnosis of 1 in 3 people

i mean, i get it, you shouldn't feel guilty about having mental health issues, but maybe find another way to understand it than martyrdom

also doesnt trying to remain strong for too long imply failing to remain strong aka weakness

Dude, don't be mean, you're going to make them cry.

*panic*

*xanax*

lol gravy

Fuck all the anti-mental health bullshit in this thread.

If you mean me, I'm sorry. I don't mean to hurt anyone - I just hate that because I've suffered from mental health problems in the past that I get swept in with a particular group of over sharing dramatic whiners. I didn't mean to deny they aren't real problems.

Yep, and the reason you've got over it and we haven't is because you're awesome. And we're not. Thanks.

I mean, I think that "people with mental health issues" is a pretty serious area where people are trying to address prejudice right now. From my experience, there's still a lot of general prejudice against people with mental health problems. I've only personally experienced comparatively small mental health problems myself, but know and love people with serious problems. I know that most people on ilx are progressive enough to not be all like "depressed people are just weak", but I still try to take it seriously.

No quantity of facebook memes will make me immune to the seriousness of the issue.

It was an allusion to Barney on HIMYM, e, and feel free to poke around for lots of proof that I'm not awesome and in fact have been suffering through a particularly shitty string of late. I apologized, what more can I do? I sure as hell am not going to get through it pretending that its noble to surrender yourself to misery as that meme would like me to believe.

Like pretty much every day this year since April I've wondered if my very mentally ill dad has killed himself yet, and that fucks up my ability to carry on with my attempts at a normal life, and then I see that meme once a week on FB, and I think "oh fuck you."

Bah. Stressy day again. Carry on with jpegs of insipid thought, please.

It was an allusion to Barney on HIMYM

Okay, that went completely over my head. Apologies for not realising it was a reference. I've just heard *that* sentiment a hell of a lot more in real life than the ham-fisted but at least supportive jpg it was mocking.

I forgot about yr dad, FFM. I also have mentally-ill, potentially suicidal relatives. But I think it's important for normal people to be able somehow to relate to crazy people. I have mental health issues, but I consider myself relatively normal, but I have to deal with so many crazy people in my day-to-day. And it's tough. But I do the best I can. And part of what makes it so tough for me is the other normal people who have very intense reactions to the ones who are fucked up.

http://i.imgur.com/WEzG7.jpg

i hate the font and typesize in most of these fucking things, it's like they design them to be hard to read

remember 'what the media thinks i do / what my parents think i do / what i actually do'

http://i.imgur.com/aT99W.jpg

I'm sorry for offending other people with mental health issues. As a consolation, I will now offend an entirely different group of people:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150949828631275&set=a.180479986274.135777.177486166274&type=1&ref=nf

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/205351_10150949828631275_1331976100_n.jpg

wow, vincent price has a lot of books!

Why is this the thing you would share I don't even:

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/306728_10150990319222669_364698562_n.jpg

I guess I don't get it.

there are some serious Windows stans out there

HL: I do speak very cautiously around those I know with these issues..I tend to treat ILX as a bit of a place to unwind and as such it sometimes gets the worst of me. :) I'm much nicer & quieter irl. E, it was a shitty throwaway allusion and perfectly understandble that people would miss it, but I felt the word amazing was ott enough that my embellishment would shine through. Anyway. Onto the shitty memes!

http://i.imgur.com/8IGF2.jpg

fair enough, ffm. I just have to deal with some depressives and some bipolars and some autism spectrum people and some people who are undiagnosed-as-of-yet on the daily. I know ilx tends to get pretty serious about other forms of bigotry and I know for example that talking shit about retarded people upsets Abbbottt pretty bad. but it's really not quite there yet in terms of the popular consensus. I just thinl that - as much as mental health shit is in the forefront for me - MOST folks it's not in the forefront for. MOST people NEED those shiity memes. Continue....

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvf2vao9Zt1qfdjbn.jpg

i guess i wouldn't have much confidence either

Eeeee! :D

bukowski and john waters otm. what i wouldn't pay to see them fuck.

http://uberhumor.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Books+This+is+exactly+how+they+work.jpg

I have seen this posted at least ten times and every time I think, 'you're supposed to read them, not stand on them.'

Haha, that's what I thought, too. At least it doesn't say "literally".

I mean that looks like a precarious vantage point! They're going to Jenga out from under him or her at any moment.

I'm also imagining that the fantasy land he's looking at has built that wall to keep plebs like him out. This isn't good, it's some sort of gated community dystopia of the highest order!

Entrance fee is...your immortal soul, firstborn child, something like that. Is all the graffiti Cyrillic aside from the universal language of 'fuck you'?

lol, BOOKS: YOU WILL NEVER HAVE ENOUGH TO ACTUALLY CLIMB THE WALL

You forgot: FUCK YOU

so when is holden c gonna come along and rub out that 'fuck you'?

He would but he is in the book the small human is standing on

He or she will never know
Too busy getting hypnotized by Mothra

If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "ABHO" signs in the world. It's impossible.