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beauty is terror

@ohverrett

françois verrett.
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Having low empathy does not make you:

  • a bad person
  • abusive
  • unlovable
  • unable to love
  • unable to feel emotions such happiness, sadness, worry
  • a monster
  • unable to differentiate right from wrong

Low empathy does not make anyone less of a person or less deserving of respect. I’m so done with the stigma. You do not need empathy to be a decent human being or a nice person. Neither having empathy makes someone better than anyone else. 

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in truth, the idea of listening words of encouragement from strangers who do not know what are you struggling with or don’t want to understand frightens me so much. because i don’t know how to react, what kind of emotion i need to represent. it’s really hard to talk to neurotypical people because they see you as second-rate. they say polite words to encourage you but they indeed want to get rid of you. actually i do not understand the concept of whining and complaining either. in my opinion it’s meaningless. if you really want to help or if you know how to help, please do it or make me do something. because i don’t know what to do and how to manage my life in that way.

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my psychosis story

recently i was diagnosed schizophrenia. finally. it was a bpd before.

well how to start. there was a very tough year. i made a lot of bad irrational things, lost my job, tried to commit suicide over and over again. a lot of people just stuck me out of their life. the voices shouted in my head. the cockroaches. gosh, a lot of cockroaches. blood. the man following me. and, god, i was so paranoid. i didn’t realize what happened to me. not a clue. i was delusional, lost and hallucinated almost all the time. and to be honest it wasn’t my first psychotic episode. i have started to see things since i was seven (i’m 25 now). but it always was an explanation. you know, vivid fantasy or magic or ghosts or paranormal things or anything else but hallucinations. i thought i was okay. anxious and manic, but okay. it’s not a big deal, you see.

i was drowning, but one very special person pulled me out. still words can't express my gratitude. and i decided to fight the disease for him, ‘cause i lack motivation to do it for me. i wish i could write i feel better now, but to be honest i still struggle with hallucinations and paranoia every day. despite my medication and therapy.

well then i’m going to post here some thoughts about my condition and how to live with schizophrenia. so if you have a problem with that, feel free to unfollow me.

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No but seriously, psychotic/schizophrenic people are so fucking strong. We don’t just have to deal with the reality we share with everyone else, which we all know is hard enough in itself, we also have to deal with our very own, individual and often scary and challenging realities on top of that? And we do that every day? We wake up to deal with several realities every goddamn morning? We’re fucking badass and that’s a fact.

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