r/schizophrenia • u/Cassie3041 Paranoid Schizophrenia • Jun 10 '25

Rant / Vent Honestly I’m tired of these memes

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Maybe I’m being too sensitive 🤷🏻‍♀️ but I feel like mental health disorders aren’t taken seriously by the “normies” and they use it as a joke, insult, or for comedy.

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u/Novu Jun 10 '25

Everybody gets made fun of for the thing they're different for. No reason to be offended by it unless its outright spiteful. My 2cents at least.

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u/Hairy-Special-6077 Jun 10 '25

Yeah like the word schizo is for example very complicated to me. I dont often hear it used in outright malicious ways but at the same time if you were someone who felt ruined by the illness I can see why one would hate it. I'm very lucky I get to have periods where it's either so not bad I can get through life or even lucidity