Delirious

Psychological Rant

So, this is a rant. But it's also a story, a story of society. So, read ahead if you want, possibly even vote and comment. If you don't, then just skip over this. Thanks!!

We live in a society based fully on judging others. Labeling people with how they look, or what things they have to carry with them. I'm not just talking about themes of racism to all races, or people being bashed for their sexuality. Because while those are both problems, both true testaments on how screwed up society can be with judging people, that's just a section of it all. How about the more hidden, less discussed portions of it? No matter where you go, you're going to get judged on how you look. People are going to look at you and instantly analyze how you look, maybe without realizing they are doing so, and assume they know exactly what kind of a person you are. He's fat, she's ugly, he's dumb, she's too weird to live. While that is a problem by itself, there is yet another problem that leads off that. That problem being, what it does to a person.

Psychological illnesses can form so easily, just because someone found it important to voice what they thought about a person, how they instantly judged them. Bipolar depression, anxiety, anorexia, major depression, bulimia, suicidal thoughts, suicide, and other indescribably serious, deadly illnesses. Now these mostly form because of what other people did to them, said to them. It's a chain, problem to problem, judging someone, hurting someone, which leads to someone hurting themselves. And in the process of someone hurting themselves, other people have to come in and automatically assume, or judge, and hurt someone even more.

This idea of what is a disease and what is not, is outrageous. Depression is just as serious as cancer, yet people think of things like that as a 'choice', or a joke. They are both a war, a war in which you either win, or die trying. Just like people don't choose to have leukemia, people don't choose to have mental illnesses. It's just something that happens. It doesn't matter if they are financially stable, have great parents and friends, or if they're unbelievably beautiful and talented, they can still have low self esteem, depression, eating disorders, etc. Just because they might seem to be 'perfect' to others does not mean that they hate looking in the mirror, that they starve to look skinnier, that they believe that everyone would be better off if they were dead.

Just because they appear to be that 'happy' person, doesn't mean that half the time, their smile is forced. Or that when it's late at night, all they can do is stare at the ceiling and think about how messed up they are, how unhappy they are.

So don't just assume that because this person has a 'great' life they can't have depression, because they can. Don't think they are doing this for 'attention', if they were, then why in the world when someone asks "Are you okay?" all they can respond with is a "I'm fine" when they are actually struggling to live with themselves.

What am I trying to say?

No, I'm not saying to stop judging people. Because at this point, society is too far in that to change. It's no longer a choice, it's an instinct. It's unfixable. But stop voicing out what you think, instead of dismissing that person based off their appearance, talk to them, possibly be their friend. Don't ignore them, push them around, call them names. You don't know how your words have consequences, maybe not always on yourself, but on others. Just because you called her 'fat and ugly' she could kill herself, and you could be in blame. That doesn't make her weak, no, that means you snapped the string. The string tying her to happiness, to herself, to life.

Stop and think. Don't just do.