Anonymous #1 7w

i love being ✨mentally ill✨

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Anonymous #2 6w

If you are too pretty sometimes you feel over observed by others. Combine that with empathy and now YOU feel like YOU are staring at YOU. In it's own way it can be hard to be hot. Good for you though I guess. Must be nice

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Anonymous #2 6w

I appreciate the compliment, stranger! But after thinking about my post, I don’t think that’s necessarily where I was going with it. It’s more of a mental health/mental illness type thing rather than that, but I do appreciate the compliment and I do agree!

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Anonymous OP 6w

I have no idea what you look like but I'm a psych grad student doing research into "hotness" Not meant as a compliment really, but I do get how it came across that way. This kind of disassociation is common with people who feel very watched

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Anonymous #2 6w

Common for some, not all. I understand how the original post can come across that way, but truthfully without knowing nothing about the person, you can’t exactly diagnose them or tell them that what they’re feeling is something for certain (I’m a psych major). Without knowing any other mental illnesses I may have, if any, you can’t say for certain that the way I was feeling in that moment is exactly due to feeling watched, and in fact it wasn’t anything of the sort.

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Anonymous OP 6w

I struggle with PTSD, major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and frequent manic episodes. On top of that, I have ADHD and ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) and other physical health disorders. Disassociation, particularly depersonalization, are common things I occasionally experience, despite being medicated. That being said, it’s not a feeling of other people watching me so I feel out of touch with reality, but rather feeling out of touch with reality so much that

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Anonymous OP 6w

I feel as if I’m watching myself from an outside lens, not the other way around. My looks, while I don’t consider myself the worst looking person in the world, are around average. How I feel about myself, or how someone else feels about me (which, considering how I look I know my opinion is different than that of someone else), has really nothing to do with it. I’m not skinny, I’m not the greatest looking person, I’m just average, and I’m just me, thus making this disassociation not about

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Anonymous OP 6w

how I look or others watching me, but something else entirely.

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Anonymous OP 6w

Now as for your statement not really being a compliment; I would state so in the future. A platform like this, in which you don’t know who it is you’re talking to (especially being anon), if what you say is not supposed to come off as a compliment, be sure to state so. This can be said in any research and anything else in which you may make the same statement. I’m personally not offended, but others might be, especially if you’re conducting an experiment, skewing your results.

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Anonymous OP 6w

I very much apologize. My original comment "You sound like a beautiful woman" and then "...common with people who feel watched" Was also not meant as a definitive diagnosis. The symptoms just reminded me of the dissociation stuff I am studying. I am sorry for those other conditions that you are dealing with, and for what probably came across as insensitivity.

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Anonymous #2 6w

All along I was really just basically saying: "Ooh! I know a little bit about this"

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Anonymous #2 6w

Also if you are beautiful, I am really sorry... because if at one point in time if I had any chance to get your number I'vs now almost certainly totally blown it .... ughhh

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