#mental illness //

[small-bambi]

Harrison Wood Hsiang

Yeah.

Harrison Wood Hsiang

[q8qwertyuiop8p]

Something that has really bugged me about season two is Jinx's hallucinations and PTSD. It magically disappears when Silco dies, save for two scenes. I remember when people on reddit were literally making jokes about the writers going this route because it would be so stupid.

One of the things I loved about season one was the realistic depictions of mental illness that you just don't see often in media. I don't know what it is like to experience schizophrenia, but I have experienced PTSD and paranoia, and seeing how it was represented in Arcane was actually one of the things that helped me through it.

And then season 2 comes around and they just completely neglect this side of Jinx.

PTSD isn't a switch that can magically be flipped off. Recovery is a slow and gradual process. In absolutely no world would Jinx killing yet another family member cure her of her conditions, it would make them 10 times worse. Not to mention just before killing him she has an extremely severe psychotic episode, which would only make forgetting her trauma even more difficult since it was just brought up fresh in her mind.

And what even about the end of s1 was it that healed her? I genuinely have no idea, because she finally chooses Jinx only to once again go back and forth between Jinx and Powder in season two, because apparently all that buildup for her final decision was for nothing.

She does experience two hallucinations (I'm not going to count the jail silco thing in act three because what even was that?) when she sees enforcer Vi and when Sevika talks about the attack at Vander's statue, but suddenly that is all that triggers her?

In season one, just seeing Vi, or even someone who looks like Vi triggers her. But now when Vi is literally trying to capture and possibly kill her she is fine, it's only the mask that bothers her? Wasn't that her worst fear, that Silco and Sevika were right, that Vi only wanted to stop her? And she is constantly triggered by Cait in season 1 but not 2?

And then there was the insulting ending, where jail Silco tells Jinx to 'break the cycle' (something he would absolutely never do) and Jinx finally finds redemption by literally killing herself after Isha kills herself in what is framed as an act of heroism (and if Jinx actually didnt, than what even was the point of that scene?) What happened to Ekko trying to stop Jinx from doing that? What happened to Silco having Singed revive her to save her life after she attempts to take it? Or Jayce and Viktor talking each other out of it? Or Silco choosing to keep fighting rather than give into the "peace in water"?

On purpose or not season 2 frames suicide as a glorious, edgy, perhaps even necessary thing and it's disgusting.

[ufoscomeandgetmeplease]

”I feel like such a temporary person in everyone's life“

[mikosocute]

[chaos-creature-on-the-roof]

^tru

also ive been semi-diagnosed b/c i talk about things i experience thinking its just something funky my brain does and then find out its probably a disorder

it's so funny to me when i see pearl-clutching articles about how "teenagers are diagnosing themselves with mental disorders via tiktok" because like. this is not happening in a vacuum. teenagers are severely and i mean severely medically neglected. i cannot stress this enough. teenagers do not have free access to medical care. those same news outlets would be clowning on women with housewife psychosis in the 1950's.

i sometimes go pale when listening to some of what my friends have gone through in their childhoods and teenagehoods. they talk about it so nonchalantly, things that would be considered straight up torture if done to an adult, can't fathom the effect this has on children. they are on multiple anti-psychotics and several antidepressants and anxiety meds now that they are adults. medical neglect has legally and effectively disabled them. a timely diagnosis and intervention could have saved them. of course teenagers are self-diagnosing using tiktok. if your knee-jerk reaction is to scoff at the idea and dismiss it as dumb teenager shit instead of being radicalized because the best shot young people have at attaining the mental health support they need is a fucking dancing videos app, you're categorically a political enemy of the youth.

[sadmates]

I know I don't say it enough and we joke about depression and how loneliness is eating up our lives, but it will be okay. I promise you it will.

[allthatispeculiar]

[lapisluminosity]

VIZZY HUMAN?!!!

✨Hot✨

[phantomsboyfriend]

Lately, I could give my entire being and still never have anyone actually love me like I love them.

pls don’t flirt with me i want to be nonchalant so bad but i unfortunately crave connection so intensely that i will give you my entire soul and forgive you over and over until i’ve lost myself completely and feel like i’m drowning

[randomreasonstolive]

Reason to Live #11605

    Experiencing something again with new knowledge. – Guest Submission

(Please don't add negative comments to these posts.)

[noahsfault]

I have social anxiety & generally assume that it’s obvious to the people around me

But I was talking to a new friend about self-image and I mentioned this to him and he said “I had no idea about that, I thought you were really confident” and like… of all the things I thought nobody would ever say to me that probably ranked #1

But once he’d said it I started remembering that he had said it every time I felt like that—

And like I’m not cured of my social anxiety but I feel and act more confident now because I don’t feel like people see me and assume I’m not confident

Depression is such an effective tranquilizer that it creates a great opportunity for plot twists in your real life. I have a pretty consistent opinion of myself which is "low" and "never ending guilt and shame for reasons I don't understand."

Recently received feedback from two different editing clients that started with "Please pass along to Jacquelynn that she is phenomenal at her job" and "I was blown away by the evaluation I received."

You always hear about how depression (and anxiety) lies to you and distorts reality, but there is logically knowing that and then there is like, physical proof of it and you are suddenly Neo in the Matrix jumping out of the fucked up little tube machine.

[literallyd34d]

fucking his dead body #womeninmalefeilds

[ufoscomeandgetmeplease]

”How do I run from what’s inside my head?“

[downwiththebad]

Sorry red voters.....but Im not on a moral level as low as yours....I dont feel the need to wish ill will on others for not agreeing with me....I just want to educate them enough for them to understand how horrible they're being and how to work on being a better person.

Wanna live in a better, kinder world?

Start by working on being a better, kinder person

radical statement here but people in red states aren’t subhuman and they don’t deserve to suffer and die because they have shitty state governments

[bloodyrose666]

thoughts i had recently about how we frame success