Board Thread:Chat Discussion/@comment-5590118-20141120182446/@comment-5590118-20141121222244

ImGonnaBeThatGuy wrote: SOMEGUY123 wrote:

Also this MPD thing is so rare but wow, 4 people on chat have it.

I really just want to single this out. I said this exact same thing to someone the other day.

It is a problem when people use chat as a venue for. . .I was going to say emotional issues, but it's not even that. It's just a need for attention. Suicide threats, talking about cutting, doing the internet equivalent of muttering, "I'm horrible" or "My life sucks" and praying people will notice. We have a lot of emotionally unstable and attention hungry teenagers on this site. It leads to a lot of problems and a lot of drama and it's super unhealthy for the people doing it. Talking helps to an extent, but what people really need is help. Actual help from people trained to do such things.

This has nothing to do with chat, but a few days ago, I saw someone post on another person's wall, "I have two eating disorders and I cut." That was the bulk of the message. Just like a casual conversation thing. Way way back when I first came to this site I had been diagnosed with Split Personality Disorder. Over the years since I have been treated for it and it has since gone away after a lot of therapy. About a year after I told people I had it Chao suddenly had SPD (I don't know if this was before or after he joined). This at first bothered me that two people with a very rare condition were in the same place. Then recently Def (who did not have it in the spring) suddenly developed this incredibly rare disorder seemingly overnight. I now fear that this mental issue has now been turned into some sort of scapegoat or joke and it really does bother the fuck out of me.