It disappoints me that people are more quickly drawn to the concept of “Normalizing Mental Illness” as being a problem instead of “Normalizing a severe lack of mental health resources.”
Like recently I have been seeing a lot of posts about how people should never express suicidal ideation openly, typically with this sort of attitude that anyone who is really feeling so badly would just go to a doctor / therapist / etc,
But that fundamentally is not the situation. Particularly when mental healthcare often involves a significant amount of money, or the threat of involuntary confinement and further traumatization of the individual.
Essentially, complaining that people are “Normalizing mental illness” when they acknowledge their suffering is a form of victim blaming, when the real underlying problem is a society which produces mass-trauma and fails to create mental health resources beyond the most absolutely basic “Lets try mindfulness!” crap.`
The Official D&D book I contributed to just got announced!
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage!
I wrote and designed a handful of the 20 levels of Undermountain for 5e, along with a team of incredibly talented freelance writers. I’m so excited to finally be able to share this. It’s been in the works for ages now!
Video game: Do you like MONSTERS!? Big beautiful awe inspiring BEASTS? Majestic gods of their domain!??? Gorgeously designed creatures that seem to live and breathe on their own terms?!?!??
Me: YEAH!
Video game: Im this game you can FIGHT and KILL them!
some random: Ok so why are you calling her a terf? i think that people are just using the word “terf” incorrectly and are just calling lesbians terfs for no reason.
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