Not really drama so much as a term I heard recently when a girl said she had RSD. Having never encountered this word, I looked it up and seems like it's a term used to describe feeling extremely bad when rejected, except of course now it has a “diagnosis” type sounding label, and people with adhd say it's different for them, it's a disorder.
A picture from /r/adhdwomen for your edification:
https://old.reddit.com/r/adhdwomen/comments/1c0ms2h/rsd_signs/?sort=controversial
Or course Redditors apply it to themselves like a girl scout collecting badges:
The funny thing is that a good way to frick with overly sensitive self-diagnosers is to deny RSD exists.
Edit: ithe D stands for dysphoria, not disorder lol
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It's funny how many disorders are characterised by being either lazy or a kitty
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Being a lazy kitty is the way these dysfunctions manifest
they're symptoms and we're starting to understand why things are the way they are
Don't gotta use that understanding to be sympathetic or easy on them tho lol
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It's because women vote. Surely you know this grue.
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Nah it's because we cured polio
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This but unironically
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Things should be harder for weak or struggling people, not easier.
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Weakness is contextual and relative imo
Placing people in the position of best marginal value is gonna take our humanity away one day, but it's hard to argue against it being the most effective way to organize people
But since I don't want to be a bug… yeah. We should challenge people on their weakness.
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I just want to kick people while they're down
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Grue these disorders aren't actually real. Take schizoid personality disorder. It's defined as “keeps to himself” or alternatively “very friendly”.
It has nothing to do with schizophrenia. It's just made up.
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Abigail Shrier has been doing the rounds for her new book "Bad Therapy" where she talks about how modern day therapy is ruining children pathologizing normal human experiences and making kids think bad experiences are traumatizing and insurmountable. They are making kids neurotic and afraid of experiencing normal negative emotions. They aren't building resilience and instead have dumb-dumb counselors, teachers, and parents (all well-meaning, but the road to heck..) who make them focus and ruminate on the bad and it makes them fricked up.
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Yeah, I haven't read the book yet, but I have listened to a couple interviews with her. She makes some good points. I know it annoys smaller children in my family when I tell them to solve a problem themselves or toughen up. They're used to having adults problem solve as a default, and are rarely told to manage their emotions independently either. That can only lead to anxious adults.
They're fully capable of self-regulating though. Once they get over being mad you won't tell them the ‘right' way to solve an issue, or let them avoid a task because of negative feelings, they get to work and do fine.
But at the same time, kids still need to know that—even if you expect them to tough certain things out and try and fail—that you'll always be there to catch them when the big stuff goes south. And that they can talk about feelings with you—just not dwell on them. I'm not sure Shrier stresses that part enough. I think she probably undervalues short term therapy for specific issues, like a divorce, as well.
I also think her conclusions are more class based than she realizes. I'm sure the upper and upper middle classes are as besotted with therapy as she says—but everyone else? Nah.
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I saw a few of her interviews and thought she placed enough importance on parents being in charge and letting their kids know that instead of treating kids like tiny adults.
100%
But at the same time, I think this stuff starts with affluent people who have time on their hands to make themselves neurotic and then it trickles down to the average and poorer Americans in r-slurred ways. Telling minorities and women they are perpetual victims and doomed isn't helping things
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PlsRope
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None of these people internalised the message of Inside Out and it shows.
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We really need a karl pooper of medicine.
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