thinking about how utterly unhelpful my parents were in my teen years:

parent: "I don't want to have thoughts about you dying, stop talking like this"

wow, what a coincedence, I don't want to have the thoughts either but thats not how severe mental illness works

#mentalillness #thanksimcured #toxicparents #mentalhealthawareness

My mother just told me that her "autistic trait" of not being able to look people in the eye "went away" after "praying and communing with the Lord" and that I should do the same #thanksimcured