You know the rules here for any tragedy not involving cats
No empathy and laugh it up
Oh yeah
Talk tough
We all have friends here
But don’t you see plenty here you’re glad you don’t “really” know
When I first started 15 years ago I was optimistic
That’s gone by and large
Most of them of us are here for our pals and to keep up
The nasty mean folk....this joint just gives them an outlet
You have a strong history
God bless
There is nothing funny or high fivable about a teen girl/child distraught enough to do what she did
No one wants mental illness
Well said. Thanks for putting things in context.
“When I first started 15 years ago I was optimistic. That’s gone by and large”
I suspect that the mass purge conducted by Dubya’s internet stasi had a lot to do with the decline.
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Will the day come when Obamcare goons just shoot everyone who’s not mentally “conforming”?
Instead of “I can’t breathe”, perhaps we should wear “I can’t cope” shirts.
So well said, wardaddy. Been here since 98 and tragedy makes jerks come out.
There are some things that are funny. Insulting and demeaning a mentally ill young woman is not one of them.
Most of the “funny” crazy stories that are posted are about manics and schitzophrenics who have traveled into psychosis. When their psychosis is over, they are truly embarrassed and shamed, and more that we would like to know, commit suicide. The Internet has turned what would normally have been a story over coffee in a local diner into a world wide shaming.
Many people here have family and friends who have mental illness. Some people here, just like everywhere else in the world, do have mental illness, I would assume.
Mentally ill people are some of the bravest people I know.
Please give the nastiness a break.
As I said on a similar thread the other day...a few years ago my husband’s grandmother told me that, as we get older, we really have to guard that our hearts don’t become hard. It tends to creep up on you.
God Bless you, too.