#I'm not talking about just intrusive thoughts (ie violent thought patterns that distress you and that you would never want to do) but like | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

prolibytherium · 11 months ago

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'Scary' mental illness allyship ultrahard mode: Being like, okay with the fact that some people experience violent impulses as a symptom (ie actual impulses/fixations on inflicting harm as an exaggerated emotional response to stressors) and accepting that people are not evil monsters etc for experiencing this

#I'm not talking about just intrusive thoughts (ie violent thought patterns that distress you and that you would never want to do) but like #things that a traumatized brain genuinely WANTS to do in the moment #Not saying that it's a healthy coping mechanism much less that you should be 'okay' with people ACTING on them but like...#Yeah this is a manifestation of mental illness/trauma/etc that is extremely not pretty and probably hard to sympathize with for #most people. Can U handle it.....#Idk it's just years of routinely seeing people get up in arms over the notion of fictional characters having violent impulses #because like 'Nooooo sweet precious little blorby would never!!!🥺'#and being like Damn wait til they find out that People from Real Life do too

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