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stardust_rifle) wrote2020-02-09 10:43 pm
stardust_rifle) wrote2020-02-09 10:43 pm
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I've been hearing a lot of "If you can't distinguish reality from fiction, then you need to get help!" posts from the pro-shipper side, and I'd like to offer my perspective, as a person who is one of those people (sometimes).
Hello. My name is M (hi, M) and I have pretty severe anxiety. Sometimes, that anxiety bleeds over into paranoia-type symptoms. Those symptoms can sometimes be triggered by engaging with various franchises (ie; FnAF, 99% of all creepypastas, The Magnus Archives)
I have, on multiple occasions, become abso-fucking-lutely terrified that Slenderman/Springtrap/some other Spooky Man will break into my house and murder me. Engaging with these franchises is a good way to send me into a paranoia spiral, which is pretty much going to ruin the next two weeks for me.
So, what do I do about it?
I have pretty much every single word related to these franchises blacklisted and muted. I don't interact with them. I certainly don't go on angry Twitter rants about how everyone who writes FnAF fic is personally responsible for worsening my mental illness.
Because that's what you have to do if you're vulnerable in this specific way. Make ways to protect yourself, as opposed to expecting every single person on the Internet to do it for you.
Hello. My name is M (hi, M) and I have pretty severe anxiety. Sometimes, that anxiety bleeds over into paranoia-type symptoms. Those symptoms can sometimes be triggered by engaging with various franchises (ie; FnAF, 99% of all creepypastas, The Magnus Archives)
I have, on multiple occasions, become abso-fucking-lutely terrified that Slenderman/Springtrap/some other Spooky Man will break into my house and murder me. Engaging with these franchises is a good way to send me into a paranoia spiral, which is pretty much going to ruin the next two weeks for me.
So, what do I do about it?
I have pretty much every single word related to these franchises blacklisted and muted. I don't interact with them. I certainly don't go on angry Twitter rants about how everyone who writes FnAF fic is personally responsible for worsening my mental illness.
Because that's what you have to do if you're vulnerable in this specific way. Make ways to protect yourself, as opposed to expecting every single person on the Internet to do it for you.
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(I’m thinking of what these things have in common, and I’m coming up with “almost anything that gets Let’s Played by ManlyBadassHero.” Giant flaming anti-rec here.)