Mental illness: A condition that seriously affects your behaviour, thoughts and way of life, examples include anxiety disorders, depression, aspergers.Â
Playing one of these can come of as cute, but in reality it's quite the opposite, they are serious issues people need help with. Personality quirks and disorders however aren't considered mental illnessess, if anyone wishes to play a character with any kind of disorder you must read up on it, a lot of issues are completely misunderstood in society. Schizophrenia is still seen by some as having multiple personalities which isn't the case at all, I play a character with SPD (Schizoid Personality Disorder) and another person resembling someone with ASPD (Anti-Social Personality Disorder) and I've done quite a bit of research on the two disorders before I even really made the characters.Â
I wouldn't go around saying "I have Social anxiety." when all I get from your character is shy Introvert, it's quite a bit more than that, I'm not pointing at anyone it's just an example, but I do hope if anyone decides to RP someone with any disorder, mental or physical, please research a lot about the disorder, if you decide to go with it don't pick and choose certain symptoms, don't go with ASPD and make them just a manipulative, lying, womanizer but feel guilty for things have all the emotions under the sun and all round a nice guy, that's two VERY different things and can come of as offensive to some of the more sensitive people out there. Just my thoughts on the subject.
Also does Eorzea even have any classifications for disorders? It seems unlikely to me that they have psychiatrists etc, so it would seem strange if someone confided in me that they were schizophrenic when that term probably doesn't exist in this universe though I'm unsure.
Playing one of these can come of as cute, but in reality it's quite the opposite, they are serious issues people need help with. Personality quirks and disorders however aren't considered mental illnessess, if anyone wishes to play a character with any kind of disorder you must read up on it, a lot of issues are completely misunderstood in society. Schizophrenia is still seen by some as having multiple personalities which isn't the case at all, I play a character with SPD (Schizoid Personality Disorder) and another person resembling someone with ASPD (Anti-Social Personality Disorder) and I've done quite a bit of research on the two disorders before I even really made the characters.Â
I wouldn't go around saying "I have Social anxiety." when all I get from your character is shy Introvert, it's quite a bit more than that, I'm not pointing at anyone it's just an example, but I do hope if anyone decides to RP someone with any disorder, mental or physical, please research a lot about the disorder, if you decide to go with it don't pick and choose certain symptoms, don't go with ASPD and make them just a manipulative, lying, womanizer but feel guilty for things have all the emotions under the sun and all round a nice guy, that's two VERY different things and can come of as offensive to some of the more sensitive people out there. Just my thoughts on the subject.
Also does Eorzea even have any classifications for disorders? It seems unlikely to me that they have psychiatrists etc, so it would seem strange if someone confided in me that they were schizophrenic when that term probably doesn't exist in this universe though I'm unsure.
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