💜 Labels can be empowering. It’s valid if a disabled person embraces their labels
💙 “Crazy” is a slur against people with a mental illness
💜 Jokes like “he’s so bipolar!” “I totally have multiple personalities!” “I’m guess I’m OCD!” aren’t funny and are actually really harmful for people living with mental illness
💙 It’s not “crippling” anxiety, it’s “debilitating” anxiety–crippled is a word only physically disabled people can reclaim
💜 Don’t kneel down when talking to someone in a wheelchair unless they ask you to
💙 Don’t infantilize people with disabilities
💜 Mentally ill people are rarely violent. It’s much more likely for them to be victims instead of perpetrators of violence
💙 If you’re not disabled, please speak up for those of us who are. Help us change the culture so we can be respected as the valid and incredible human beings we are
💜 There’s no such thing as “narcissistic abuse” or “borderline abuse.” Someone can be abusive and have NPD or BPD but the abuse wasn’t because they have a mental illness
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💙 Not all borderlines are abusive so don’t act afraid of someone the moment they say they have BPD
💜 People with depression aren’t whiney or crybabies or overreacting, and they can’t just decide to be happy
💙 People with anxiety disorders aren’t freaks for being unable to function at times
💜 Don’t stare, point, or talk about someone if there crying, shaking, stimming, and/or panicking
Also, don’t tell people with a physical or mental illness that they can just use “mind over matter” to combat their symptoms. You have no idea how much “mind over matter” it takes just to get out of bed every day. It is okay for chronically ill people to say they can’t do certain things and it’s not okay to make them feel like they have to force themselves to do something that will harm them.