The Ribald Report

this is why we can't have nice things

hey chick on Intervention that is burning herself with cigarettes right in front of your boyfriend for attention while he ignores you?

imemilya:

bowlingalleylawyer:

I’d ignore you. too.

You make people with real problems that need real help get further ignored.

You need to try life without a worthless fucking man. You need a hobby. Read a book. Call me when some real shit happens.

thanks,

~someone who has real problems (yet never set a Camel on her arm cos of it)

??? Okay, sorry, I hate getting involved in Tumblr argument shit, but this cannot be ignored.

That girl is self-injurious. She’s an alcoholic. She’s depressed. And telling her she doesn’t have “real” problems is probably the worst thing anyone can do. She already feels worthless. She so very clearly has problems. Mental illness is a problem. It’s an ILLNESS. She needs help and she needs for someone to believe that she has problems.

Color me wrong, but I’m really pretty sure that being depressed and having a mental illness is a “real” problem.

Ok, rant over.

agreed. you wouldn’t tell someone with cancer to stop having cancer, but some people have no problem telling patients with addiction and mental illness to just get over it