Jokes About Mental Illness

[chaoticfirefly]

I have this friend on Facebook, I used to be really close with her when I was a little girl but circumstances happened and we lost touch.

Two years ago, we met each other again by chance at a store and stood around for a few hours in the Entertainment section, just talking and it was great. She was a nice as I remembered and very sweet.

However, recently, on her Facebook, she's started to make some...jokes. Jokes about rape, jokes about cutting and mental illness. Now I know people use humor to deal with things, but I can't help but feel offended. And kind of hurt.

And slightly triggered as though all of this crap I've been though, as if it's a joke and I'm a bad person for taking it seriously. Like all these years I have struggled are just one big joke.

I don't know.

How does everyone else deal with it?

 

[pyramid33]

I have this friend on Facebook, I used to be really close with her when I was a little girl but circumstances happened and we lost touch.

Two years ago, we met each other again by chance at a store and stood around for a few hours in the Entertainment section, just talking and it was great. She was a nice as I remembered and very sweet.

However, recently, on her Facebook, she's started to make some...jokes. Jokes about rape, jokes about cutting and mental illness. Now I know people use humor to deal with things, but I can't help but feel offended. And kind of hurt.

And slightly triggered as though all of this crap I've been though, as if it's a joke and I'm a bad person for taking it seriously. Like all these years I have struggled are just one big joke.

I don't know.

How does everyone else deal with it?

If your mentally ill, your suffering far worse than any human can dish out.

Perhaps she is trying to find ways to cope with her pain.

One of the worst pains known to humans is mental abuse and yet it is ignored by nearly all and those that are attacked by it are ridiculed into thinking it is some weird thing and to please kindly disappear as if not to ruin their mood.

It is very serious and all of those cold hearted arrogant rude people so interested in only pleasing themselves, if they even get a glimpse of it, will be begging for help.

 

[chaoticfirefly]

No suffering is any worse than someone else's because to them, their suffering is a hard thing to get through even if someone else thinks it's a molehill. To even compare sufferings is just very shallow. And cold, even. The "I have it worse than you" is childish and kind of stupid.

Maybe. Some do use humor has a mechanism. I still am triggered by it, for the sole fact I'm dealing with my own devils of depression, self harm and yes, rape. Even if it's been a few years, I'm still fighting it and dealing with everything that comes with it.

What does mental abuse have to do with this what even

I'm sorry but what?

 

[pyramid33]

No suffering is any worse than someone else's because to them, their suffering is a hard thing to get through even if someone else thinks it's a molehill. To even compare sufferings is just very shallow. And cold, even. The "I have it worse than you" is childish and kind of stupid.

I'd hope you'd, proclaiming mental anguish, would understand the neglect of it in the worlds view. Instead of claiming me selfish for asking for help and understanding.

 

[pyramid33]

Maybe. Some do use humor has a mechanism. I still am triggered by it, for the sole fact I'm dealing with my own devils of depression, self harm and yes, rape. Even if it's been a few years, I'm still fighting it and dealing with everything that comes with it.

I could say your being selfish for being haunted from the abuse you've endured, but I think we are beyond that.

What do you mean by "devil's of depression"? Is that thoughts? Or pain from thoughts of certain evil deeds? Your harming yourself? Isn't pain from others enough? What if you harmed me? Would that make you feel better?

Please don't harm yourself.

 

[pyramid33]

I think it is very bad to joke about problems of others. I also think that those problems are far greater cowards than they pretend to be. If they are so insistent on harming people, then maybe they need to face the wrath and stop hiding like cowards so that they can prove how tough they are.

In a one on one match against the one they inflicted, they will be beaten down.

 

[pyramid33]

As far as evil in the world, it is obvious that the world in its temporary state is corrupt and ready to be deleted. There is a better place, where evil doesn't exist. A place where perfection is normal. That is how come we choose God. The ever loving deleter of wickedness.

 

[prov1810]

I think it's best to select friends who treat other people with respect. It's one thing for someone to use humor to cope with their own problems, but ridicule is something else.

 

[Noxot]

it just depends on how you take it and how you say it and who you are and what you can handle.

each situation is unique and only in freedom can issues of morality be solved on a case by case situation... rather than some universal moral code with so many rules that it makes you want to puke due to realizing that you have become a slave to something less than eternal reality and spirit and love and God. that dead moral code can not begin to understand humanity and good and evil and what love is.

what would I do? I don't know, this is all such a vast topic. if I was raped I would probably not want to laugh about it. in my view of the common world... rape is not something anyone would want to deal with other than to joke about it. I can see how being offended by someone taking lightly what was to the victim a horrible suffering makes sense but I can also see that most likely if my friend knew I was raped then a common reaction would be to not speak of such a thing around said victim. and so for me it turns into an internal conflict which most likely involves resisting various enemies that think they have the ability to keep me in a shape I no longer desire to be. but I do love myself more than I used to and that really helps with dealing with all the messed up stuff that goes on inside sometimes. I feel strongly that what I affirm for myself that it is also is the right of others... I don't want to condemn someone in my heart because that means I have something to do with condemnation and I don't want anything at all to do with it and I certainly know that at the core of every person is that eternal and unchanging person that is revealed throughout all of eternity, the real self rather than the shadow that this world tends to make us. you can't help but to love this person because he is Christ in us, the hope of glory ( what better glory but God and his love and his children? )

I kind of wish someone would hurt me so that i could cry, it has been a while. the last time it happened it was my friends saying a few things to me and yet we would always joke around like that but they said the right thing at the right time to make me break down. and out of that my bitterness, my loneliness, my hatred, my sorrow.. so many things came up out of me again. at least it was a nice experience and at least i can look back and joke about it... haha it was at work too, I was crying at work... they totally made the little school child victim in me come out. but it gave me a chance to deal with it and heal more. I wish the worst sufferings in this world were just words and ignorant joking...

in general I perceive all of humanity to be insane, most just don't know that they are. I have to cut insane and sick people some slack, especially myself. we all want the same things. truth, goodness, happiness, beauty, ectect. even demons want those things, even if they don't know it.

 

[miss-a]

It does not sound like she is someone who is helpful for you to be around right now. Maybe in the future after you have more healing under your belt. But right now, this has hurt you, and you don't need anymore hurt. You need nurturing and healing.

Prayers for you,
a

 

[MadamImAdaminChrist]

As a long-time mental illness haver, I enjoy a good joke about craziness or what-have-you. I have a pretty thin skin, so that is saying something--it is very surprising to me, even as I think about this. I guess I love a good joke, and if it is not aimed at me specifically, no harm done to me.