(Source: laynestaleysmanpurse)

as-cool-as-i-am:

youarenotyou:

frrrass:

thestoryofabipolarbear:

You are a person with bipolar disorder.

You’re a person with schizophrenia.

You’re a person with OCD.

You’re a person who is depressed.

You’re a person with psychosis.

You’re a person with a mental illness.

Your illness doesn’t define you.

You are your own person as much as anyone else is.

This is really fucking important to remember. I rarely do though.

Um hi, actually I really don’t like being told how to refer to MYSELF. Seriously… fuck off anyone who thinks it’s appropriate to tell someone that they NEED to use person-first language WHEN REFERRING TO THEMSELVES. Ugh.

These kinds of “corrections” are always semantically really interesting to me.

Look at this: if someone chooses to call themselves a “male person” instead of a “person with maleness,” no one says they’re doing so out of self-hate. If someone self-identifies as an “adult” instead of a “person with adultness,” it’s not because they don’t think they get to be their own person. And if I call myself “depressed” or “a mentally ill person,” the ONLY people who would tell me that I’m necessarily “defining” myself by my illness are the people who think this illness is something that actively negates the rest of my personhood.

(via peanutbutterandjellyfish)

n-0-s-t-a-l-g-i-aa:

I don’t hate you. I’m just not necessarily excited about your existence.