Earlier today one of my Facebook statuses read: "I wish that depression was funnier." And it totally wasn't a "come and pity me, I need hugs" kind of post. I genuinely wish that mental illness could be laughed at a lot more. Why? Because mental illness totally sucks and sometimes you just gotta laugh to keep from crying.
That's why I love bloggers who put their illness out there and say,
"I'm Here! I May Need Meds! Get Used To It!"
I imagine that one day I will go to a fancy blogging conference and will run into Alexis somewhere, and we will hug and jump up and down cause we're that excited, and then we'll go off in a corner and watch cartoons where the jokes are all about genitals.
It's called bonding.
Alexis is letting me guest post at her blog today, which is beyond frickin' awesome. It gives me tingles in places I'd rather use blog euphemisms for.
- Her awesomeness tingles my feed.
- Her hilarity inflates my html code.
- Her friendship is like going to a blog where the music player doesn't start automatically - cause that crap pisses me off.
2 comments:
We prefer to laugh UNTIL we cry.
It is Hilary. That's one of the problems with mental illness. Many people consider it to be outside the "norm" of medicine. They'll often attribute it to a character flaw. For these types of people, it's a matter of discipline, not a health problem, which makes them view mentally ill people as irresponsible or weak. Medical advances in the study of the brain are so far behind that it complicates the problem. You'll hear people say that a chemical imbalance is a myth, but a little research will show you there are indeed studies where scientists have been successful at creating objective tests to confirm a mental disorder. However, they are so expensive, it will be a long time before they enter mainstream medicine. For example, one test involves a spinal tap. You'd have to seriously sedate me to do that, and those things are done when you're awake! That's the scariest scene in that whole Exorcist movie if you ask me... Wait, did I mention I was long winded? ;-)
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