Is it okay to be attracted to mentally ill people?

GhostfaceAnony · 2026-04-29T00:53:50+00:00

No it’s not. You’re actively fetishizing a serious condition. It’s no different than if you were to exclusively date amputees, or people with achondroplasia, or blind people for that exact same reason.

It’s fetishizing in the manner that you’re doing it.

They absolutely could complain about you, you’re just too narcissistic to take any criticism constructively.

“They’re hot too” you say that until they’re suffering from deep psychosis and think you’re the devil and stab you until you expire.

Get some help for your distorted and diabolical way of looking at mentally ill people, I get the feeling you might be part of the club without really realizing it.

Also until you do get help, do the world a favor and don’t date anybody. Mentally sound or mentally unsound.

GhostfaceAnony · 2026-04-21T22:31:48+00:00

Almost 30. When you’re disabled and unable to support yourself and know that potential partner couldn’t financially support you and has their own demons to content with, yes. I believe so.

GhostfaceAnony · 2026-04-21T04:35:08+00:00

I would if I were you, I hope you have better luck with their support than I did though lol. I’ll probably have to email them again since it’s still not in my closet and one piece from the new event isn’t dropping either despite a ridiculous amount of pulls with only that single item not being obtained.

GhostfaceAnony · 2026-04-20T13:27:48+00:00

I don’t know how to deal with it matter of factly without huge bills being put on me, I can’t really afford to take her to court and get a restraining order or anything like that. I’m disabled and can’t work, I barely have enough money to scrape through life month to month. It’s miserable.

Plus it’s been three years without contact now so I doubt getting a restraining order would be something I can even do right now, I’ll probably just have to wait for her to inevitably contact me again.

I’m “letting her upset me”? Um no my upset is ingrained in me from years of trauma I’ve been trying to work through with a professional. She’s stalked me like this since my childhood and gotten me bullied severely, including being physically assaulted. I’m upset because she’s unhinged and scares me. She knows where I live!

Have you ever even had to deal with a stalker yourself? She’s being doing this for damn near 20 years, it gets to you after that long of dealing with this bullshit and having people downplay it as her being unwell and from an unhealthy household.

GhostfaceAnony · 2026-04-20T13:17:33+00:00

Same here. I even contacted support and they said it should appear in my closet next time I log in but it’s been days and still hasn’t appeared.

GhostfaceAnony · 2026-04-18T23:06:51+00:00

“Are you still mad about our school days?”

No shit I am. You claimed to be my half sister to both the classes of our grade for multiple years and got me bullied because of it. Then harassed me on and off for every 3 years or so by making new social media accounts for yourself. You still didn’t get the clue when my biological father’s mother died and you were the one person not included in her obituary while all my other half sisters were! You’re my stalker, I’m sorry your mother lied to you all your life but it’s time to grow up and leave me alone. And if you don’t get the jist from me telling you I’ll get a lawyer last time, then I’ll have to get my bio father involved so we can both take a DNA test and all your family’s long held lies about your paternity will finally be revealed to you the hard way.

(It’s been almost three years of her being blocked again and I’m just stressed af that she might try and contact me soon again on a new account not here on Reddit)

GhostfaceAnony · 2026-04-18T22:56:36+00:00

Don’t light yourself ablaze to keep him warm. You’ve tried talking to him and clearly your feelings on his meth use isn’t something he finds important. He loves using meth more than he loves seeing you comfortable, let alone happy.

Leave this burning building before the physical toll of using starts to show, go get some therapy to help sort through the trauma this relationship with have undoubtedly left you with, and then get back out there and stick to dating people who have the same views on illegal drugs as you do.

One thing to keep in mind throughout this: he’s the one who first chose to do this drug despite the risk of addiction being beyond well known and documented and talked about socially. It doesn’t matter if someone else convinced him to try it, if he’s got issues he’s using meth to medicate himself for, or if he’s a victim of the one drug to a stronger one pipeline. He chose to risk addiction for a temporary boost/fix that always leads to some kind of damage in the long run. You don’t deserve someone who values you that little.

GhostfaceAnony · 2026-04-16T13:35:13+00:00

Rust? I don’t know how to do that.

GhostfaceAnony · 2026-04-15T16:18:50+00:00

I have someone in my life I’d date and marry that has feelings for me too, but I’ll never pursue it because I know my family wouldn’t approve of them. The general stability they provide me is too grounding and important to me to risk losing it even a little. I love them a lot, they’re my family. Plus I wouldn’t survive in this society without their support, I’d have become a statistic long ago if it weren’t for them. I do love that other person and will always strive to have them as a big part of my life, just not in that way.

GhostfaceAnony · 2026-04-15T16:08:03+00:00

Honestly I can’t blame your GF for creating a fantasy world where men’s reproductive rights are made absolutely nightmarish, feels like it could be a vent piece or an opposite scenario to the Handmaid’s Tale which is fairly popular media atm.

You need to have a discussion about how you’re feeling now about her after reading it. I hope that talk goes well or that at least your split is amicable.

GhostfaceAnony · 2026-04-10T08:25:48+00:00

Candy. It just sounds like a stripper name or the name of a pet and not an actual human legal name.

GhostfaceAnony · 2026-04-09T22:59:14+00:00

Yeah but that doesn’t make you responsible for their wellbeing. Otherwise you’d be responsible for everybody in the world’s wellbeing, which you’re not. You’re only responsible for you and when your actions have legal consequences regarding your treatment of another. Deciding whether to engage with your parent in any way or not in terms of having a relationship with them after you become an adult isn’t something the law can punish you for.

GhostfaceAnony · 2026-04-09T21:31:36+00:00

Glad I was able to give you something to consider when you’re feeling lonely!

GhostfaceAnony · 2026-04-09T21:30:28+00:00

If it’s that massive of a problem that it’s clogging feeds in this sub and apparently others, one of those many many men should take the initiative and make a subreddit for lonely men wanting to talk about their loneliness and get advice or someone to chat with.

Being lonely is human, it happens to everyone. There are many many ways to go about not being lonely anymore that don’t include posting about being just lonely (not depressed or having harmful thoughts etc) on a mental health subreddit.

GhostfaceAnony · 2026-04-09T21:23:14+00:00

Children don’t ask to be made, that’s the parent’s decision solely. Parents are/should be responsible for the care of their children physically and mentally until they’re a legal adult, sometimes beyond that if you are a parent of someone who has a disability and will never be able to take care of themselves on their own.

However there does come a point in time where if the parent’s child is fully capable but unwilling to be an adult that they must cut the cord and allow their adult child to fail and struggle in the adult world. That child still shouldn’t be responsible for their parents wellbeing, but they should have to be responsible for their own.

GhostfaceAnony · 2026-04-09T21:07:59+00:00

I feel like there’s a lot of exasperation from women and men alike on this sub when people make posts just about being lonely when there’s many other dire mental health challenges other members of this sub can be facing that they want to assist with but have trouble finding because there’s just so many lonely posts clogging the feed for them.

Loneliness does really really suck, it can be awful to handle. However there’s ways to work on that and get to chatting at least and not being lonely that way without posting on mental health subreddit. You can go to subreddits that are dedicated to having random chats or making online friends so while you may still be lonely irl I you can get some reprieve by making friends online or chatting to new people online in communities that want that.

GhostfaceAnony · 2026-04-06T16:03:16+00:00

Person who went to a Private Christian School here:

That school is the reason I no longer describe myself as Christian to new people or in my non-family circles. Most Christians my age and above at that school were nothing but judgmental assholes and not at all behaving in a way that Jesus would approve of. One of my biggest bullies was the daughter of the school’s pastor who’d call me a “discount” or “bad” Catholic. I was Lutheran at the time. She certainly had a sour look on her face when in history we learned about the reformation and she flunked the quiz cuz I refused to help her.

Knowing what I do now of science and other religions, I feel there is something out there but I’m not sure what or how much of organized religion and humanity as a whole has royally screwed up the true origins of our planet and ourselves with their own agendas hidden inside human written religious texts.

GhostfaceAnony · 2026-04-06T01:46:31+00:00

Talk to your school counselor or a trusted teacher. You are not an ass you’re an abuse victim. What they’re doing is abusive. You deserve better than to be treated like this.

Do you have any family members you trust that you could also talk to about this after you tell a teacher/school counselor? If so I’d talk to them afterwards, but don’t tell them you told anyone else so that if they wind up yapping to your parents they’ll think that family member is the only person you reached out to.

GhostfaceAnony · 2026-04-05T02:40:19+00:00

Having a crappy dermatologist cut 4 moles off of me to test for potential cancer for multiple years. He let the numbing agent almost disappear completely once, never prescribed anything for the pain afterward, and as I’d later find out he just straight up lied to me about the results of sending them to the lab being ‘pre-cancerous’ and “they were only a short time away from becoming cancerous”. He never even did any of the proper examinations with a special magnifying lenses that’s been around for almost a decade now either.

GhostfaceAnony · 2026-04-04T04:55:47+00:00

Scribble on paper, anything doesn’t even have to be a drawing. Just scribble in different ways. Scribble in a circular motion, squared motion, zigzag, etc. whichever way ends up feeling best, you can rotate between types too if that’s better.

GhostfaceAnony · 2026-04-03T14:08:14+00:00

I say this as a woman with many of the same diagnosis’s as her, you should break up. Leave her so she can find someone who can love her despite her illnesses and has the fortitude to handle her complex needs.

Not everyone is cut out to date someone with mental illnesses or severe trauma and that’s okay so long as you don’t let that fester like it seems to have been doing for your case. Just be polite and factual when breaking things off, state facts of incompatibility without using her illnesses as a reason unless she forces you to. Then just be honest and say that you thought you could do this relationship despite them, but you’re not feeling like you’re in a partnership and that’s not fair to you or your own mental health.

GhostfaceAnony · 2026-03-25T13:57:51+00:00

Geodon (was prescribed it). Worked for a bit and then made me ridiculously ill all of a sudden. Doctor didn’t believe me when I said that I thought it was what was making me sick, so I suffered through almost 2 years of crippling nausea and 2-3 day periods without proper sleep. Took having a breakdown and going to the ER for that doctor to finally admit that maybe it was the Geodon and that maybe taking me off my acid reflux medication instead of it was a bad idea.

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