Normies are like “look at me, I’m taking Xanax,
I am so edgy, so special, so mad.”
You don’t know what madness is.
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My favorite is when girls wear shirts that say “cute but psycho”… UGH. There’s nothing cute about being psychotic. 
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Looool actually i have a tendancy to be more attracted to mentally… idk melanholic women its because im nuts myself si i need somone who can keep pace with me 
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I can understand mentally ill women.
I like them
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Yea the crazier the better haha unless shes like psycho. Psycho and crazy are two very different things
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Well, girls that wear those “cute but psycho” shirts are probably just trying to get attention. I doubt most of them are actually psychotic.
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Lol fair enough maybe its trivializing mental illnessb:laughing: my girlfriendw like omg im crazy 
im like i know 
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I have mixed feelings about those things. Sometimes, people who do those things may have an undiagnosed condition. Sometimes, they help spread awareness that the things we deal with aren’t totally foreign or dehumanizing.
Other times, they make the stigma even worse, or are a form of mockery. My feelings about those incidents heavily depend on the context in which they happen.
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You know what I think, everyone is crazy and no two ways about it.
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I think the same thing about people who say “I’m so nerdy, I like comic books and video games” even tho both those things have become completely normalised and are part of the mainstream now. If it isn’t a fringe thing, how is it nerdy?
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Massive eyeroll 
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I would say that a good chunk of our society is made up of broken neurotics.
Addicted to themselves and different substances like booze and other varieties of drugs, illicit and legal.
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So I’m not allowed to keep being a nerd now because the “real” nerds have decided to do sewing and ■■■■?
That’s dumb.
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This sort of sounds like gatekeeping being a nerd. Being a nerd means something different to everyone, and to me it means having a passion and devotion about a given hobby or activity. There are car nerds just the same as there are video game nerds. Im a chess nerd.
Saying you have to like certain things in order to fit in as a nerd is a bit ironic.
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As for the thread, I don’t like it when people use insanity to seem edgy. Mental health shouldn’t be a trend. With that being said, it is a bit of an odd cultural shift in our views on mental health… I’m not saying it’s good, it’s just a hell of a lot better than before when we were thrown in asylums and forgotten about. I consider it a step forward, even though it could be more stigmatized in the long run.
“They like me they really like me!”
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I really agree with you. I think that “Pseudo Neurotic Schizophrenia” is becoming extremely common in today’s society. They feel unwanted by the world how it is now.
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I’m all for trivialising the distinctiveness some wish to attach to themselves by virtue of being mentally ill. ‘Sane’ people don’t suffer a great deal less than the insane. Cancer, death of a loved one, rotting teeth and falling hair, wage slavery, and a long host of painful and disabling diseases eventually touch everyone. We are not that special.
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Not at all what Im saying.
Im saying how is it nerdy to like those things when they are mainstream?
If you liked comic books before they were popular, when you were demonised/ridiculed for it, then I’d say you were a nerd.
But thats not the same as liking them when they are literally the highest grossing movies being mass produced etc.
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To me the main component of it is being an outsider and having interests that most people can’t comprehend. It isn’t nerdy to like mainstream stuff. Thats a complete paradox.
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I wish you were right, but look at the suicide rate of normies compared to schizos, its terrifying high. I think we suffer much more.
Normies have their troubles, like you mention, but they are of a totally different character. From what i can see on this forum, negative symptoms, depression might be worse than delusions or psychosis.
Normies can be depressed or simply bored.
One good thing about being a schizo: There are sparks of beauty in the madness, there is an access to a different worldview:
Here is the cover of an early “The Brian Jonestown Massacre” record. If you want a sick, charming blues, this is the record:
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