Mental health club!

[Bird Furious she/her/un/important]

2 minutes ago, Through The Living Glass said:

what actually that's so creepy tho BUT OKAY

*hug*

Yeahhhhh I'm sure I'd be scared if it actually happenedddddd but we gonna pretendddddddd

*squeeze* 

[Through The Living Glass She/They]

Just now, Halcyon The Only said:

Yeahhhhh I'm sure I'd be scared if it actually happenedddddd but we gonna pretendddddddd

*squeeze* 

Yeah FR

Just imagine like

this random girl pops up outside your window and screams "HEY" at you

like  

[Bird Furious she/her/un/important]

3 minutes ago, Through The Living Glass said:

Yeah FR

Just imagine like

this random girl pops up outside your window and screams "HEY" at you

like  

I freaking wonder what you look like all the freaking time though 

like

I WONDER ALL THE TIME 

Imma find a stock photo and decide that's what you look like just so I can stop wondering

cuz NOBODY EVER LOOKS LIKE I THINK THEY WILL BUT THAT'S ALSO CUZ I NEVER HAVE A COHESIVE PICTURE IN MY HEAD AND LIKE---

idk where I was going with that but uh yep

[Through The Living Glass She/They]

4 minutes ago, Halcyon The Only said:

I freaking wonder what you look like all the freaking time though 

like

I WONDER ALL THE TIME 

Imma find a stock photo and decide that's what you look like just so I can stop wondering

cuz NOBODY EVER LOOKS LIKE I THINK THEY WILL BUT THAT'S ALSO CUZ I NEVER HAVE A COHESIVE PICTURE IN MY HEAD AND LIKE---

idk where I was going with that but uh yep

WAIT TWAI TWAI TAITWAIWAITWAI TIWA IAWT I WANT IAW

HANG On

okay lemme see

lol look up teen sandy blonde blue eyed girl

that's me

all of them, obvi

[#1 Taln Fan he/him]

5 minutes ago, Halcyon The Only said:

I freaking wonder what you look like all the freaking time though 

I just assume everyone looks exactly like their pfp until proven otherwise xD 

[Bird Furious she/her/un/important]

8 minutes ago, Through The Living Glass said:

WAIT TWAI TWAI TAITWAIWAITWAI TIWA IAWT I WANT IAW

HANG On

okay lemme see

lol look up teen sandy blonde blue eyed girl

that's me

all of them, obvi

Ofc ofc 

5 minutes ago, #1 Taln Fan said:

I just assume everyone looks exactly like their pfp until proven otherwise xD 

I am indeed exactly like my pfp. There's not even a slight degree of difference. 

[KnightSkye Reforged They/Them]

22 minutes ago, #1 Taln Fan said:

I just assume everyone looks exactly like their pfp until proven otherwise xD 

This is honestly what I do too. I never picture people right.

[KnightSkye Reforged They/Them]

[MirkerLurker she/her]

5 hours ago, Thee insane said:

So j got a question for all the rpers in here. So I like love to make characters. Even if I never use them. It's like a coping mechanism or something but I was wondering who else uses role playing and stuff for coping?

Yes!

I create not just characters but full stories in my head. I have a world with three separate stories and character sets that take place in it at various points in the timeline.
All of the characters have some aspects of myself in them (some more than others). Several people here have commented they do that - put some parts of themselves that are true in, and some parts that are what we wish we could be. Like us, but different. Better.
But yeah, definitely a coping thing. I've got a character that is deliberately calm because once she loses her temper, she flies into uncontrollable rages; I've got a character that feels trapped and unable to escape herself, like there's two versions of her inside her head that want competing things; I've got a character that pursues what's "right" to the point of burning those around him; I've got a character that's so blandly average that no one takes notice of him and he's too soft-spoken and quiet to speak up about it; I've got a character who fears if she stops pretending to be less than she is, pretending to be 'normal', she'll terrify and hurt those around her and drive them away; I've got a character who is always fighting the voice in her head that wants to hurt those around her and revel in it, wondering if she's a monster for having it.
In the stories, they all work through these things; the problems don't all go away per se, but they learn, they struggle, they grow, they come to healthier mindsets; they do better than I - and then I try to apply that to myself, and think of myself the same way, and grow like they do.

(There are crossovers too, where characters from one story appear briefly in one of the other storylines. Those are fun to 'write'.)
(I've never actually written any of this down though. There's something about writing it down...I feel like I couldn't put it into words perfectly. I think as much in emotions, colors, scents, textures, as I do in words. And the more I care about something, the harder it is to put into words. ...Which makes communicating important things real fun, I gotta tell you.)

4 hours ago, #1 Taln Fan said:

I just assume everyone looks exactly like their pfp until proven otherwise xD 

So you say this laughingly, but I integrate the profile pic into my image of who the person is. Not what they look like, but how they choose to portray themselves. The profile pic becomes a large part of how I think of them.

...Which does not help me make an actual visual picture of them in the slightest haha. I am no good whatsoever at guessing what people look like.

[Wittles he/him]

Don't you hate it when you haven't had a significant depressive episode in months, but one day you can feel the weight of everything crashing down and you can't get out of bed, and it only goes away after about a week? 

Definitely didn't happen to me the other day...hehe

[Through The Living Glass She/They]

2 minutes ago, Wittles said:

Don't you hate it when you haven't had a significant depressive episode in months, but one day you can feel the weight of everything crashing down and you can't get out of bed, and it only goes away after about a week? 

Definitely didn't happen to me the other day...hehe

past three months of my life

yep

It actually was better today

*HUGS*

[KnightSkye Reforged They/Them]

7 minutes ago, Wittles said:

Don't you hate it when you haven't had a significant depressive episode in months, but one day you can feel the weight of everything crashing down and you can't get out of bed, and it only goes away after about a week? 

Definitely didn't happen to me the other day...hehe

*Hug* Yep. I storming hate that. Feels so random every time. 

[Wittles he/him]

5 minutes ago, Through The Living Glass said:

past three months of my life

yep

It actually was better today

*HUGS*

*hugs*

I'm glad

[Keke They/he]

4 hours ago, #1 Taln Fan said:

I just assume everyone looks exactly like their pfp until proven otherwise xD 

I am sure I'm not hoid. Unless.....

34 minutes ago, MirkerLurker said:

Yes!

I create not just characters but full stories in my head. I have a world with three separate stories and character sets that take place in it at various points in the timeline.
All of the characters have some aspects of myself in them (some more than others). Several people here have commented they do that - put some parts of themselves that are true in, and some parts that are what we wish we could be. Like us, but different. Better.
But yeah, definitely a coping thing. I've got a character that is deliberately calm because once she loses her temper, she flies into uncontrollable rages; I've got a character that feels trapped and unable to escape herself, like there's two versions of her inside her head that want competing things; I've got a character that pursues what's "right" to the point of burning those around him; I've got a character that's so blandly average that no one takes notice of him and he's too soft-spoken and quiet to speak up about it; I've got a character who fears if she stops pretending to be less than she is, pretending to be 'normal', she'll terrify and hurt those around her and drive them away; I've got a character who is always fighting the voice in her head that wants to hurt those around her and revel in it, wondering if she's a monster for having it.
In the stories, they all work through these things; the problems don't all go away per se, but they learn, they struggle, they grow, they come to healthier mindsets; they do better than I - and then I try to apply that to myself, and think of myself the same way, and grow like they do.

(There are crossovers too, where characters from one story appear briefly in one of the other storylines. Those are fun to 'write'.)
(I've never actually written any of this down though. There's something about writing it down...I feel like I couldn't put it into words perfectly. I think as much in emotions, colors, scents, textures, as I do in words. And the more I care about something, the harder it is to put into words. ...Which makes communicating important things real fun, I gotta tell you.)

So you say this laughingly, but I integrate the profile pic into my image of who the person is. Not what they look like, but how they choose to portray themselves. The profile pic becomes a large part of how I think of them.

...Which does not help me make an actual visual picture of them in the slightest haha. I am no good whatsoever at guessing what people look like.

Ooh do you have one of those brains that has like 3d imagination!

[MirkerLurker she/her]

15 minutes ago, Wittles said:

Don't you hate it when you haven't had a significant depressive episode in months, but one day you can feel the weight of everything crashing down and you can't get out of bed, and it only goes away after about a week? 

Definitely didn't happen to me the other day...hehe

Yep. You think you're doing well, you think maybe you're actually better now, you think maybe you can start to count on being ok, and then...BAM. Darkspiral, brain out of commission, breathing is too much work, let alone moving...
Hate it.

 

14 minutes ago, Through The Living Glass said:

past three months of my life

yep

It actually was better today

*HUGS*

*Hugs* for both of you.

6 minutes ago, Thee insane said:

Ooh do you have one of those brains that has like 3d imagination!

I guess, yeah? I've never experienced thinking any other way haha. But yeah, I think of and imagine things with full sensory detail (as best as my brain can, anyway). My thoughts are a jumble of "feel!" and "sound!" and "emotion!" and "movement!" and "color!" and "scattered words!". 
 

[Keke They/he]

1 minute ago, MirkerLurker said:

Yep. You think you're doing well, you think maybe you're actually better now, you think maybe you can start to count on being ok, and then...BAM. Darkspiral, brain out of commission, breathing is too much work, let alone moving...
Hate it.

 

*Hugs* for both of you.

I guess, yeah? I've never experienced thinking any other way haha. But yeah, I think of and imagine things with full sensory detail (as best as my brain can, anyway). My thoughts are a jumble of "feel!" and "sound!" and "emotion!" and "movement!" and "color!" and "scattered words!". 
 

YO I FINALLY MET SOMEONE WHO THINKS LIKE ME LITERALLY!!

[Through the Living Heir he/him]

6 minutes ago, MirkerLurker said:

I guess, yeah? I've never experienced thinking any other way haha. But yeah, I think of and imagine things with full sensory detail (as best as my brain can, anyway). My thoughts are a jumble of "feel!" and "sound!" and "emotion!" and "movement!" and "color!" and "scattered words!". 

3 minutes ago, Thee insane said:

YO I FINALLY MET SOMEONE WHO THINKS LIKE ME LITERALLY!!

I think it’s an Autism trait, because I’m like that as well. I have a relatively word-like internal monologue of thoughts, but anything I’m imagining is sensory details and meaning, not words. 

[Through The Living Glass She/They]

I have conversations with the other me who lives in my head, I guess

[MirkerLurker she/her]

20 minutes ago, Thee insane said:

YO I FINALLY MET SOMEONE WHO THINKS LIKE ME LITERALLY!!

Sweet! 

 

14 minutes ago, Dragonheir said:

I think it’s an Autism trait, because I’m like that as well. I have a relatively word-like internal monologue of thoughts, but anything I’m imagining is sensory details and meaning, not words. 

Ooooh, I wonder if there's studies on that? That's a neat theory.

[#1 Taln Fan he/him]

1 hour ago, MirkerLurker said:

So you say this laughingly, but I integrate the profile pic into my image of who the person is. Not what they look like, but how they choose to portray themselves. The profile pic becomes a large part of how I think of them.

...Which does not help me make an actual visual picture of them in the slightest haha. I am no good whatsoever at guessing what people look like.

For sure, I def do that, mostly unconsciously. Like Chaos' pfp definitely aided in my being intimidated by him back when I first joined the Shard xD (but then I learned he looks and acts nothing like his pfp, and is very nice lol) 

[Through The Living Glass She/They]

1 minute ago, #1 Taln Fan said:

For sure, I def do that, mostly unconsciously. Like Chaos' pfp definitely aided in my being intimidated by him back when I first joined the Shard xD (but then I learned he looks and acts nothing like his pfp, and is very nice lol) 

I did the exact same thing, so I was kinda surprised the first time I saw what he actually looked like.

[strmblsd he/him]

i think that i probably belong here

[Bird Furious she/her/un/important]

11 hours ago, Through The Living Glass said:

I did the exact same thing, so I was kinda surprised the first time I saw what he actually looked like.

YOU KNOW WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE?

 DANG

8 minutes ago, strmblsd said:

i think that i probably belong here

*more hugs * 

I think you need a small fluffy animal. 

[strmblsd he/him]

3 minutes ago, Halcyon The Only said:

YOU KNOW WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE?

 DANG

*more hugs * 

I think you need a small fluffy animal. 

i have a whole corner of those in my bedroom... But im at school tho.. i just am anxious about everything a little but its not bad rn

 

and all this talk about profile pics and i agree that that is how i imagine people. i just barely decided to change it for the first time

Edited January 22, 2025 by strmblsd

[Bird Furious she/her/un/important]

1 minute ago, strmblsd said:

i have a whole corner of those in my bedroom... But im at school tho.. i just am anxious about everything a little but its not bad rn

That’s good. 

Still not fun but better than alternatives. 

Anxious is hard. 

*hugs again* 

Spoiler

I’M A VERY HUGGY PERSON OK