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Permanent Linkby DJM19 on Thu Jan 12, 2012 12:41 pm

Haven't used this blog in a while, but a long conversation with my Dad got me thinking so I might write it down here.

In times of war, two men emerge, the brave and the coward. Even though sometimes they are the same person, people (especially in Britain, I notice) glorify war and the brave who fought, and more likely then not died. They hold the hero up and judge their current standards by how he and others acted in times of war. Meanwhile the coward gets no mention, even though he came home alive. He may have tired to be a hero, but fell short or bottled out after seeing hundreds of people die, many of whom were his mates and yet he is instantly judged a coward,

Now I imagine you're sitting wherever you are, reading this blog/rant and wondering 'what the hell has this got to do with a mental health forum?'
I'll explain

Even though we know differently, the world's media has a habit of dividing people into two categories, the normal and the abnormal. Normal people are people who have no physical or mental problems in their lives. Abnormal people are people who do.Normal people are judged to be people who have no 'embarrassing' defects about them, who aren't 'nutjobs' or 'lunatics.'
Meanwhile people all over the world who have DID, Austism, ASPD, BPD, Bi-polar, BDD etc are seen as people who are at best, different and at worst, people who should be locked up. We are judged because we fall short of the standards that are put on us by society.

Now I can understand how horrible this is and I can imagine some of you are offended. But it is true to some extent. And that's what makes this place and others like it so important. Politicians, journalists and even ordinary people harp on about mental illness and its disadvantages. But if that's normal, then that's not my bag, I prefer to be different.
After all, how many politicians would give up their time willingly as volunteers to help people with their problems? How many journalists come on to these sites to give impartial, helpful advice to someone in need and, in turn, learn something about themselves? How many 'normal' people would devote themselves to offer advice and support to others in difficult positions, sometimes on a daily basis?
And how would someone with a mental illness who is, right now, feeling alone and afraid, feel if they came here and realise that they are others like them, that they are not different? The fact they feel that way in the first place

We can't all be normal, we can't all be brave all of the time. But who says that means we give up? We don't and we won't.
What do you think?

'Anyone can face a crisis, it's day-to-day living that wear you out'-Anton Chekhov
Last edited by DJM19 on Fri Jan 13, 2012 12:04 am, edited 1 time in total.

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Anyone can face a crisis, it's day-to-day living that you need to be careful of-Anton Chekhov
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Re: Analogy

Permanent Linkby flowingtears on Thu Jan 12, 2012 6:12 pm

If there was a "like" button on here, I would have pressed it.
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Re: Analogy

Permanent Linkby DJM19 on Thu Jan 12, 2012 7:17 pm

Thanks Flowingtears! :D Glad you like it.
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Anyone can face a crisis, it's day-to-day living that you need to be careful of-Anton Chekhov
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