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  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I assure you that talking about your mental health concerns, at least in the Anglosphere, has never been more common or acceptable. 20 years ago there was some discourse about mental health, but it was very limited. Twenty years before that mental health was absolutely taboo.

    Also, regardless of what you're experiencing a twitch stream's chat is not an appropriate or helpful place to discuss it. There may not be any good alternatives, but pouring your heart out in a gaming stream is unlikely to help you in any meaningful way. Instead we are at a situation where many people don't have any healthy outlets.

    • catposter [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      talking about mental health concerns is only acceptable in a detached and rationalizing way. 90% of the people who talk about this stuff don tacre at all, from personal experience. the moment it becomes slightly more costly or slightly more labor intensive to support someone through anything whatsoever only the best of people don't immediately drop it. the discussion of mental health is just a facade and a kind face. its typical liberal polite sadism.

      it might not be appropriate or helpful but i dont care honestly. im not saying that these people are being smart by talking about their suffering in dumb gamer chatrooms. im jsut saying that getting angry at them or saying theyrre doing something morally wrong is absolutely disgusting rhetoric. if people who talked about trauma dumping actually cared they would be williing to listen to and support others themsleves or at least send them to resources that actually help (which by the way dont really exist) instead of stigmatizing them and blaming them for flailing for any kind of life line. im sick of neurotypical people being able to shut down what i say or do because it makes them "uncomfy uwu"

      it isnt smart to pour your heart out to twitch but it's reprehensible to judge someone for doing so. as long as the injternet exists under capitalism there will be people who have it as their only outlet. if we really didntcare about online stuff then we would just drop it and let them vent.