What really sucks is when you know you should be doing something but physically/mentally cannot bring yourself to do it no matter how important doing that thing is.

Leftism and inclusion leaving y'all's bodies as soon as medium to high support needs autistic people and people with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorders, any mental illness that makes you uncomfortable start asking to be treated with humanity and decency.

Shoutouts to:

cluster a autistics

cluster b autistics

cluster c autistics

depressed autistics

anxious autistics

autistics with eating disorders

autistics that deal with hallucinations

autistics with dissociative disorders

autistics with tics

physically disabled people who are also mentally ill i love you and you are so strong <3 im struggling a lot with both right now and i just wanted to let you know that i see you, and i care about you.

The Deranged

Something that fascinated me about Dagur (spoilers) was after he turned good. Before, he just seemed off, but I assume part of it was due to him being bad. When we saw him genuinely trying to be good and "normal," that was when it sunk in for me just how mentally ill he was. There are so many moments of him trying to not lose his temper or still just not realizing how his behavior is unlike the others. It's so interesting to me, but it's also very sad that it's probable he'll never really receive any type of help since he lives in Viking times.

Personally, I still think that he had hope as a kid. Going back to Viking times, it probably is why he got worse. People saw him do abnormal actions and just wrote him off as weird. We've seen Dagur be around enemies and not hold back. In Twinsanity, he talked about the laughs that he AND Hiccup had when he tried to drown him. He would not care about pretending like they both had fun if he knew that wasn't true. He didn't even sound sarcastic because he probably meant that. Just like when he called Hiccup "old friend" in The Night and the Fury. This boy seriously did not know what he was doing wasn't friendly or normal. At that point, it becomes the responsibility of the adults to sit him down and explain to him what is and isn't okay. I really think he wouldn't have become an enemy if that had happened so that he could have learned how to form a healthy friendship with Hiccup and the other kids on Berk. Instead of this, his mind is viewed as a weakness.

Dagur is called "Dainty" for being so unlike the others at his home. He's called a "lunatic" for being weird on Berk. Finally, he calls himself "deranged" to use what everyone has told him made him weak or a freak to make himself dangerous and worthy of getting the respect he's always wanted. If he never had the potential to be better, he wouldn't have been able to be so selfless later on, even going so far as to put himself in danger when Heather and Hiccup still hated him. That is one sharp turn. He was evil before, but he was never hopeless. In RoB, I think Dagur was a neutral character with the possibility to have turned good or bad. It's just a shame that he went down such a dark path before turning around.

lead coping mechanism rn

What mental illness does Philip have?

I’m just going to briefly list what I’ve noticed and what others have noticed for him. I am not trying to demonize or harmfully depict any of what I list, and I have several of the disorders that I’m listing while another suggestion was made by someone diagnosed with that disorder. Some of these aren’t actual disorders but are instead symptoms or behaviors I’ve noticed in him.

Having said that, I’ve noticed traits for the following:

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (Related to the Grimwalker cycle of death and rebirth)

*Unspecified Schizophrenic Spectrum Disorder (hallucinations and “delusion” associated with the BI inhabitants)

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Incredibly obvious)

Possible Trauma-Induced Memory Issues (Portraits in Hollow Mind)

Substance Dependence/Addiction (palismen)

Unspecified Anxiety Disorder (Dread and anticipation leading up to the expected betrayal of Grimwalkers, the creation and use of multiple back-up plans)

Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms (Lack of care for his own degrading state, inability to care about other things)

Lack of Regard for Safety and Health (Continued use of palismen, putting himself in dangerous situations [Eclipse Lake, Stonesleeper incident, betraying the Collector], continued use of curse despite negative side effects)

Lack of Care for Life/Possible Suicide Ideation (“I just need to live long enough to see this through,” indicates a lack of regard for his own life and a lack of plans after something that takes significant effort; when I was at my worst, I had this feeling of, “I’ll do this one last thing, and then I’m done” that he seems to mimic, and he doesn’t even notice or care that his body is decaying in WAD)

Self-Harm Issues (Cut his ears and carved glyphs into his arms, continued to absorb palismen and transform when it negatively affected his health)

*This is the diagnosis suggested by @streya-nova. I’ve read it, and they make a ton of great points. Additionally, one of my aunts has paranoid schizophrenia, and I’ve recognized some overlapping symptoms. Their discussion of this is in the link below.

I hope this all made sense for you!

Me? Having the symptoms of a disorder I have? It's more likely than you'd think.

The broken who never bleeds.

The empty who never needs.

The writer that doesn't read.

The romantic with no strings.

The suicidal who still breathes.

The depressed that never grieve.

The contradictions of beauty in everything.

I'm sorry but one of the best things about a psychiatric ward is being around other people with mental illnesses.

I never related to kids in media, growing up and even now I can’t see myself in them. I don’t see the kid who desperately craved emotional connection. I don’t see the kid you got along better with adults. I don’t see the kid who noticed and felt everything and pondered the meaning of life.

The closest thing to representation kids like me got were characters like Matilda. When we get abnormally intelligent kids, they’re always book smart. I want emotionally intelligent kids representation. I want kids who grew up to fast. I want representation for the kids who didn’t have a stable childhood.

I want better disability representation. I want young people using canes and walkers and crutches. I want good antisocial personality disorder representation. I want ‘scary’ mental illness representation. I want people who were hearing aids. I want autism, Tourette’s, BPD, cochlear implants. I want queer representation, I want Māori, black, Hispanic, south Asian, indigenous, Indian representation. I want all of it.

I want every weird kid to see someone just like them on tv.

The brain is an organ. Mental illnesses are illnesses of that organ. Brain scans show that there is a physical difference between a healthy brain and a sick brain. Telling someone “You’re not really sick. It’s all in your head.” is like telling someone with asthma “It’s not real, it’s all in your lungs.” The brain is an organ that can malfunction as much as any other organ.

People with mental illnesses who experience psychosis deserve compassion and support.

let's not forget:

autistic children become autistic adults.

disbaled children become disbaled adults. - shane

If you are struggling right now I promise you that things will get better, if the only thing you did was breath all day I’m so proud of you for getting through this. Please keep going.