There’s a term for faking an illness it’s called Malingering. Malingering patients usually exaggerate their symptoms, like an armature actor making too big movements to try and fit their role.
Also, shadow people are usually seen most in meth addicts, so uh. If someone says they seeing shadow people, you should be concerned.
Ok..that is SUPER not okay.
To use drug addiction as a possible reason for hallucinations?
Fuck that thats a horrible thing to say!
Alright I’m sorry to put this on someone’s dash but what. Because someone is seeing shadows GASP oh they might be doing meth!!!1! Stop. You’re basically calling schizophrenic people possible meth addicts and apparently thats why someone gets their hallucinations. Blaming them on drug addiction. NICE.
As a schizophrenic person, I have seen shadow people a lot and what not but never once have I taken meth.
I agree with the first statement about people faking mental illnesses but the “exaggerating” thing is such bullshit. When I was at the hospital, there was a fellow schizophrenic kid who reacts more than me. He screams and runs or covers his eyes, or ears. He even cowers in the corner, but he has the same thing as me yet I never done anything like that besides cower in the corner, so “exaggeration” is bullshit. That’s like saying you can suspect a person who is depressed that sleeps for long times everyday or doesnt bath nor change is exaggerating rather than another person who is also depressed that doesnt do any of those. Mental Illnesses are different for everyone and effect everyone differently, that boy who was with me in the hospital did not fake or exaggerate simply because he reacts to it more than me so yeah.
“If someone says they are seeing shadow people, you sould be concerned” … that is possibly the worse thing you can ever say. So you’re saying that anyone who sees shadows, it’s safe to assume that they are on meth and drugs? That’s fucking stupid. Fun fact; Mental illnesses develop and the things you get from drugs are side effects that most of the time don’t stay. Unless they take it for a long time but to assume that people who hallucinate and see shadow people, like Schizophreniacs or Sleep paralysis patients
Schizophrenia can be caused by Genetics, Environment or Different brain chemistry and structure. As well as Sleep paralysis patients so assuming that drug use is the main reason for someone to be seeing shadow people is just, well, I dont want to sound like a whiny SJW but, sounds pretty fuckin’ ableist to me.