I don’t know when, why, or how the big 2015 fad of girl’s calling themselves psycho became cute, but I’m here to break it to you ladies; it’s not cute. Nor is it the least bit flattering... It’s degrading.
I get that some of us wear the shirts like “Cute but Psycho” as a joke and don’t actually consider ourselves psychotic, but I also (sadly) get that some of us wear clothing with sayings like these because we’re actually trying to broadcast the fact that people think we’re psychotic. There’s nothing flattering about acting like a hot mess and then labeling it as being “psycho.”
I know were young and now is the perfect time to act a fool, but there comes a time when you actually need to get your shit together and stop acting reckless. We get so insulted when guys call us “crazy” or “psychotic” yet when we call ourselves psycho we think it’s humorous when really, we become hypocrites to our own self-esteem. Much like every thing else, we create a double standard where there shouldn’t even be one.
There are a million more positive words we can define ourselves as, as women and we choose psycho as one of them. People forget what it actually means to be psychotic and how mocking a mental illness is actually squeamish and unsettling to human kind. We forget that being psychotic means having psychosis. We forget that having psychosis is a serious mental disorder resulting in false and delusional thoughts. We forget being delusional and deranged means we’re out of touch with reality.
I want women to think twice before they so proudly call themselves a “psycho” or “crazy” to others and on social media. To think twice about calling yourself something you’re not medically diagnosed and to think twice about the satisfaction you get of over 100 likes on a post about something you are not. It’s okay to have issues, we all have our problems, but that doesn’t make us psychotic. If you’re going to label yourself as something, make it something worth praising.
There is nothing flattering or cute about suffering from a mental disorder and I can bet you the millions of people in the world that actually suffer from all different types of this disorder don’t appreciate mentally healthy people using the term “psycho,” lightly. I don’t know about you, but I’d much rather be defined as a strong, stable, healthy and any other mentally positive word as a woman in such a broken down society.
My sole purpose is to tell you to think twice before you proudly call yourself something you are not. Don’t expect people to respect you when you don’t respect yourself enough to label yourself as something hearty.
