3. Redditers who suffer from a mental illness, how do you feel about the stereotype...

Redditers who suffer from a mental illness, how do you feel about the stereotypes around it?

(Disclaimer: I’m going to try to answer this without specifying the illness, as I do want to maintain some small level of privacy, but if you really need to know I can PM.)

I’m not violent. I’ve been in one fight, with my sister. I held her at arm’s length the whole time while she bit and scratched me and tried to hit me in the face. She got one punch landed, so I grabbed her arm and pulled her to the ground so she wouldn’t get hurt.

Everyone says that folks with my illness are so violent, but we’re actually more likely to be abused than to abuse. The truth is that we’re honestly just super scared of the things that occur within our own head. Everyone says reality is one thing, but our minds are showing us something different. It’s terrifying and dissociating and incomprehensible.

I don’t want to hurt you, and I don’t want you to hurt me. I just want to live my life peacefully, spend time with my family, smoke some weed, play some video games, make some music, find peace in a world that threw me the biggest curveball.

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