Suicide Attempt Survivor - Tumblr Posts

If you have marks on your body, that means whatever demon in your mind or in your life that tried to take you out failed miserably, and they left you some sick looking battle scars as proof of your strength.

It means more than just "you survived." It means there's some force out there trying to end you and you're still kicking ass. Sounds more like thriving to me.

Show em off. Tell their stories.

I'd love to seem em and I'd love to hear em.

I wish I didn’t have to waste my energy on this but here goes.

Dementia is not stupidity. Mental illness is not corruption or delinquency.

People calling President Trump a dementia sufferer or mentally ill thinking that that’ll somehow disqualify him from his presidency, think about what you’re saying.

Apparently what he’s doing isn’t evil or stupid enough for you to call it out as that. Maybe you do, but it’s not good enough for you. No, you say, he’s MENTALLY ILL *gasp* NOW we have to figure out how to remove him from office.

Ahem.

So mental illness is worse than being evil or willfully ignorant?

Really?

There are probably dozens of mentally ill people you interact with everyday that you don’t even know struggle with mental illnesses. And if you do, what do you think about them? Do you think they’re unfit to be parents? Coworkers? Managers? Leaders? Do you think they’re worse than evil? Worse than stupid?

There are instances of mental illness that incapacitate someone to the point where they can’t do these things successfully. But that is not what we’re seeing in President Trump. There are PLENTY of reasons why he’s not doing his job successfully but mental illness ain’t one. And treating it as the worst thing about the US president only solidifies an immovable stigma that people like yours truly have to fight off every day of our lives.

Thanks for nothing, and do better.

Signed, a depressed, anxious, suicide attempt survivor and future leader of a piece of your world.