"Aww, stories about mental illnesses are so cute! The pair always seem to fall in love!" "How should I add more drama into this love story? Oh! Maybe one of them should be hidding a mental illness and then they get together!" This has been written about many times but I'm gonna share how I feel about this because WHAT THE FUCK?! I've seen posts and stories of people adding depression or anxiety or self-harm eating disorders. This is NOT OKAY!! You don't add a mental illness into a story to make it more romantic. If you add it into a story, there is nothing wrong with that but when you add it JUST to make it more cute and sweet that is crossing the line. Mental illness is NOT CUTE! Me, myself I have only delt with self-harm, depression, social anxiety and Suicidal Thoughts so I can't say my thoughts on that. But I can say, depression is not someone crying in the bathroom and then there secret love finds them and tells them everything is gonna...
I'm mad but I'm not insane, I just have demons. Demons named depression, self-harm and anxiety. I write my madness out in poetry and my option on teen topics.