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FourEyedKoi
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[2014-08-11 18:54:37 +0000 UTC]
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# Statistics
Favourites: 7; Deviations: 15; Watchers: 9
Watching: 12; Pageviews: 3297; Comments Made: 104; Friends: 12
# Interests
Tools of the Trade: Writing and Amigurumi# About me
A dc and marvel fan (amongst other things).Amigurumi is my medium of art. I am more experienced with writing. Check out my account on fanfiction.net.
# Comments
Comments: 13
Daw, thank you!
I didn't know anybody could know! What's more I am surprised anyone left any message at all.
It means a lot. Thank you.
And sorry for not seeing it earlier. Don't know what possessed me to check my DA today, but now I gotta 1300+ notifications pile-up and probably wouldn't have seen this until I got my next update for weep out (probably in the next month.) Top that with family, school, work, and my new form of anxiety-control--cosplay--and I get myself buried. My old loner habits are not conducive to keeping in touch with people. Sometimes I wish I was a social media nut.
hey, Whisper, I was wondering. You haven't changed your profile image here or on ff for years (as far as I can tell). I'm curious, what is the story behind the butterfly if you do not mind me asking?
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Not at all, although there really isn't much to it. We were in the butterfly house at the local zoo when this one landed right over my tattoo. The hubby got the shot, and I've used it ever snce. I've never been one to make a lot of changes to my ID, because that's how people can know me from site to site, so I've just always kept it.
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Thank you for the very true and insightful, helpful things you said in your journal entry. People should never be made to feel ashamed for being the victim of an illness or shamed out of getting help.
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This was beautiful, and as someone with a mental illness, I thank you for posting it. Especially in the days since Robin Williams died, depression and mental disorders have been a big subject of conversation, and I'm happy to note that I've seen several posts similar to yours on different websites. If anything good could come out of his suicide, I think it's more awareness and understanding.
I suffer from Bipolar II Disorder, in which my high periods don't usually go into mania. I do my best to help people understand that bipolar doesn't mean insane, and I'm fortunate not to have had anyone say anything derogatory about it, at least to my face. I'm guilty of using "crazy" and "insane" a lot, although I usually don't use them to refer to a person; but I believe people are so used to using those terms that they've taken on a different meaning. I don't see the stigma going away altogether for a long time, if ever. But just spreading more awareness and helping people think before they judge (or speak) can only be a good thing.
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I did notice after publishing that journal, and seeing it in full-page view, that it had been lumped in with other Robin Williams related stuff. Not that this bugs me or anything.
I had written it since it had been on my mind for so long. I could never publish on fanfic.net. It all started with a person I know discivering they had boarder-line personality disorder the hardest way possible. With how many friends I discovered, after years of knowing them, had bipolar mania, ocd, or schizophrenia. With what I ventured to understand through study about all these things. And with everytime I listened to these people the most awful things (usually bitterly self-deprecating) about themselves, like "crazy" or "freak".
As frustrated I am with normal people for the stigmas; I am frustrated just as much with many mentally ill people I know for accepting them when they deserve to think better of themselves.
I certainly hope that Williams death can be a door for more discussion and understanding for all mental illnesses, too. And thank you. I'm gladened to hear that my journal was a message pleasing to you as a person afflicted with bipolar disorder.
Its shocking to me how many people wouldn't understand what you mean about not going into mania during your "high periods" and how that relates to bipolar depression. Its my point in why I said people just don't understand the meaning of a medical name as common-knowledge as bipolar disorder and why you have to explain its not insanity or instability to so many people you meet.
Thank you for sharing that, by the way. And I hope you don't mind me saying this, but I wish for all your periods to be moderately high. As someone who's been through major depression herself, I certainly could not imagine bipolar depression. Ugh, what I'm trying to say is that I wish you the best of health in your future days. I'm prayin' for ya!
Yeah, I imagine we'll never get rid of all stereotypes, not so long as stupidity remains a pandemic- when people refuse to accept the truth. But we open peoples eyes to the debunked myths and be open honest with ourselves and others about the hurts too fresh and subtle for us to acknowledge.
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I get the idea that you thought your words about my illness were awkward, but they weren't; they were perfect. Thank you.
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