Can you link a couple? I haven't noticed and now I'm curious o.oI don't remember finding her too gaunt, but she sure does have some depressing posts.
Here are a few. Normally I wouldn't think anything strange about some sad posts, but most of her personal posts are sad. Also, most of her quotes she reblogs has something to do with feeling lost, empty, depressed, etc...Can you link a couple? I haven't noticed and now I'm curious o.o
Here are a few. Normally I wouldn't think anything strange about some sad posts, but most of her personal posts are sad. Also, most of her quotes she reblogs has something to do with feeling lost, empty, depressed, etc...
http://girlnah.tumblr.com/post/107850395471/panic-attack-no-6-in-under-three-days-oh-its
http://girlnah.tumblr.com/post/106708674976/being-a-hypersensitive-crybaby-this-is-probably
(this one is really strange) http://girlnah.tumblr.com/post/106503416886/so-i-havent-seen-my-neighbour-for-a-few-days-now
http://girlnah.tumblr.com/post/113153061226/i-cannot-stop-skipping-classes-i-dragged-my-weary
http://girlnah.tumblr.com/post/102642778701/the-amount-of-people-i-talk-to-these-days-is-so
Or she took a lot of Women's Literature coursesI just always notice she constantly quotes Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath. Nothing wrong with that...but they did both have troubled lives and I feel like that gets romanticized on tumblr a lot.
She is obviously quite intelligent but I find her more and more irritating. She flaunts her thinness but then attributes it to whatever bullshit excuse, exhibits a variety of abnormal mental behaviors (which is fine, as we're all fucked), but her romanization of her poor pitiful life really drives me nuts. Maybe she really doesn't have any friends/support but just ughh.Or she took a lot of Women's Literature courses
look she obviously eats a LOT!!! every other picture is food!!" Kinda like Snejana saying she's natural thin... c'mon we're not all idiots here.
She is obviously quite intelligent but I find her more and more irritating. She flaunts her thinness but then attributes it to whatever bullshit excuse, exhibits a variety of abnormal mental behaviors (which is fine, as we're all fucked), but her romanization of her poor pitiful life really drives me nuts. Maybe she really doesn't have any friends/support but just ughh.
Or she took a lot of Women's Literature courses
I just always notice she constantly quotes Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath. Nothing wrong with that...but they did both have troubled lives and I feel like that gets romanticized on tumblr a lot.
She is obviously quite intelligent but I find her more and more irritating. She flaunts her thinness but then attributes it to whatever bullshit excuse, exhibits a variety of abnormal mental behaviors (which is fine, as we're all fucked), but her romanization of her poor pitiful life really drives me nuts. Maybe she really doesn't have any friends/support but just ughh.
Actually I think what annoys me more are the idiots on her tumblr saying "look she obviously eats a LOT!!! every other picture is food!!" Kinda like Snejana saying she's natural thin... c'mon we're not all idiots here.
Yes, I don't understand it. I was actually hesitant to follow her because some of what she posts is sad/depressing but it's like she's happy being in that state or like she wants to because of her Tumblr followers. Like she wants to please her tumblr followers. I dunno. Or I imagine for someone going through a sad time maybe it's comfortable/familiar so it might actually be scary for someone to get out of that position and seek happiness. I dunno, I'm just guessing here, trying not to judge.In my opinion, she romanticizes depression, which makes me doubt the actual extent of her own sickness. (Sorry if this sounds rude or ignorant)
In my opinion, she romanticizes depression, which makes me doubt the actual extent of her own sickness. (Sorry if this sounds rude or ignorant)
In my opinion, she romanticizes depression, which makes me doubt the actual extent of her own sickness. (Sorry if this sounds rude or ignorant)
Yes this is what mostly annoys me. I can't figure out if she's romanticizing** because she's attention seeking, or that she's soo sick she actually absolutely lacks any insight. I don't doubt romanticization of this type would be detrimental to her recovery, and correct me if I'm wrong, I haven't seen her post anything that would hint to recovery. I know for me, when I'm in a bad headspace, I just want to get out out out... not self-prolong my misery. Maybe I'm reading too much into this but bottom line, her posting food constantly then posting her body in various contorted poses to show off her skinniness, THEN claiming the weight loss isn't intentional etc annoys me, and I find it insincere. I'm getting a similar vibe from her "depression" posts, kinda like "look at me, I'm such a poor beautiful tortured soul, love me love me love me"... and her followers DO respond in a very validating way.In my opinion, she romanticizes depression, which makes me doubt the actual extent of her own sickness. (Sorry if this sounds rude or ignorant)
I understand the impulse to romanticise what you're feeling, to romanticise your depression. It makes it feel a bit less painful to find something pretty in your sadness, focusing on the YA novel sense of loneliness, and confusion. I'd rather be some tragically beautiful poet/smoker/writer than a real depressed person that doesn't shower and cries about dropping a book, yanno? And when you're getting this validation from your audience because you're some sort of pretty, depressed heroine to them, it feels better than just being miserable on your own, with all these ugly thoughts and no outlet.
hope it made sense, and sorry for the tangent
Yeah but the thing is, if you are really depressed to the point where you are not showering, can't get out of bed in the morning (or afternoon, or evening), etc. then you most likely won't be sitting in a cafe writing amazing poetry while gazing into the horizon with a cigarette on one hand and a glass of wine on the other. I mean... maybe the right word isn't to romanticize, but to glamourize. I think she does glamourize depression and, as @ZeroDiet says, it makes me uncomfortable and makes me think that maybe she is not that depressed after all.
I know nothing about her but reading the things she post on tumblr and the way she turned down her modelling agency (Or something like that) it seems like she's not happy with herself and is probably going through anxiety or depression, I don't know, there are different types of depression and not everyone reacts the same. Anyway I agree with the fact that teens in general tend to glamourize things like depression on tumblr, it's sadly becoming a trend.Yeah but the thing is, if you are really depressed to the point where you are not showering, can't get out of bed in the morning (or afternoon, or evening), etc. then you most likely won't be sitting in a cafe writing amazing poetry while gazing into the horizon with a cigarette on one hand and a glass of wine on the other. I mean... maybe the right word isn't to romanticize, but to glamourize. I think she does glamourize depression and, as @ZeroDiet says, it makes me uncomfortable and makes me think that maybe she is not that depressed after all.