Official Mental Health Thread

[Chula Vista]

Originally Posted by The Batlord

MB's mood is a cypher you need to figure out before deciding what we're actually saying. Treat a withering blizzard of sarcasm like tea leaves to be read.

Jebuz. I was sitting here thinking, with all of my thinking powers, trying to come up with the perfect metaphor for Melrose Banter.

Bat, you astound me.
Not often.
Not very often at all.
But when you do, it's always worth the wait.
Tooch.

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Jebuz. I was sitting here thinking, with all of my thinking powers, trying to come up with the perfect metaphor for Melrose Banter.

Bat, you astound me.
Not often.
Not very often at all.
But when you do, it's always worth the wait.
Tooch.

With most of us being dudes covering trauma with cavalier humor you kind of have to treat it like a night out with the boys shellac'ing each other like siblings tricking each other into drinking pee. The assumed/false intimacy of the internet only makes it more intense.

[Marie Monday]

Advice from MB should obviously be taken with a grain of salt, but in this thread people should be able to count on getting support. I think this thread is mostly supportive, but still. It's possible to joke about mental illness or other grave subjects without hurting anyone. The disrespectful jokes are mostly unfunny anyway.

[Marie Monday]

Originally Posted by The Batlord

With most of us being dudes covering trauma with cavalier humor you kind of have to treat it like a night out with the boys shellac'ing each other like siblings tricking each other into drinking pee. The assumed/false intimacy of the internet only makes it more intense.

That's true, but:
-you could keep that kind of interaction for the people who are into it
-as I said, you can use humour and banter without being hurtful

[jwb]

Originally Posted by MarieMarie

-as I said, you can use humour and banter without being hurtful

now where's the fun in that?

[Marie Monday]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

elph needed some tough love imo

Yes, but tough love can be respectful. But if it is fine with him it's ok with me

Originally Posted by elphenor

When did I say the jokes hurt?

As I said, I'm not even sure that you did. Idk

[Marie Monday]

Originally Posted by MarieMarie

As I said, I'm not even sure that you did. Idk

LOL I think this Smiths quote post is what I was semi-remembering:

Originally Posted by elphenor

I can laugh about it now but at the time it was terrible ohhh mama let me goo

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

When I made fun of Exo's weight problems he went to the gym partially as a middle finger to me and got skinny (or so he says). I guess women are just different.

[jwb]

Originally Posted by MarieMarie

Yes, but tough love can be respectful.

No, it can't.

This is exactly what is wrong with "the female perspective."

You twats just always sound like the mom of whoever got attacked.

[Marie Monday]

Originally Posted by jwb

No, it can't.

This is exactly what is wrong with "the female perspective."

You twats just always sound like the mom of whoever got attacked.

Wikipedia says about tough love:
"It is an expression used when someone treats another person harshly or sternly with the intent to help them in the long run."
harsh/stern does not mean disrespectful.
And why would this be a "female perspective"?

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by jwb

No, it can't.

This is exactly what is wrong with "the female perspective."

You twats just always sound like the mom of whoever got attacked.

Bruh my family is people like you. What you think is tough love is just puffing yourself up like a peacock and looking down on other people to inflate your own ego. People like you have no business pretending to look out for anyone else cause all you're looking out for is your own fragile male ego. I'm gonna guess you'll totally disagree with this because your own experience says that this is deflection but your experience is probably with a family of emotional retards like mine. Otherwise you'd be someone different.