Fwd: Mental Health Week
Peace out...
This coming week is National Mental Health Care Week. You can do your part by remembering to contact at least one unstable person to show you care.
Well, my job is done!
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Oh-kaaay. Is it wrong to be taken aback and miffed by something like this? I could tell that someone had already sent it to Samantha, my sender. She has ADHD. Apparently, she was appreciative and not miffed.
I, on the other hand, feel very uncomfortable to see this. So I'm a charity project? Great.
:roll:
I wouldn't like that kind of e-mail. If my online friends care about me, they can just show that to me by e-mailing with me talking about things we both like.
She's a real life friend who knows my e-mail address. We've known each other since 2003, and I know she didn't mean to be offensive but...still.
:?
I wouldn't take something like that seriously. It sounds like a childish joke, intended to tease you, rather than a charitable effort for mental health.
Miss Jane, did you take your screen name from The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman? That's an excellent book and a strong statement for civil rights.
No, but I'll have to find said book. It sounds like a wonderful resource!
Samantha is very young and full of pranks, so I'm not too offended. There is no National Mental Health week?
There is no National Mental Health week?
There is, but "unstable person" doesn't seem like the sort of language any professional would use.
I've seen similar e-mails that were jokes.
Well, someone could find it funny to send it to a friend he thinks is not unstable.
Sibylle
My flatmate (who is female) is obsessively in love with me, in kind of an icky creepy way.
It freaks me out when she emails me.
The point is, why would anyone want more mental unbalance in their lives? Unless you're a qualified professional, I don't think it makes sense to go out of your way to contact mentally unbalanced people.
If they're your friends, you should be contacting them anyway, and they'd probably be (rightly) insulted; and if it's someone you don't know, then what the heck are you smoking?
That is insulting, it kind of implies that the recipient is unstable which could be interpreted in many ways...
And anyway, autism and ADHD aren't mental illnesses to begin with.
No, they aren't. Strangely enough, I was seeing a counsellor a couple of years ago. He has a son with Asperger's and has read a fair bit on the subject. I asked him if Aspergers was a mental illness and he said "yes". That really confused me as I thought it was a difference in how our brains are organised.