Why is mental illness painful, unromantic and not fun?

The fundraising activity of Tencent's music donation platform "Children's Gallery" caused a lot of discussion because it was screened in the circle of friends of many media people and philanthropists, and because it raised150,000 yuan in just a few hours. The discussion is naturally full of praise and bullets, but no matter how praised or questioned, the two sides will not disagree on the reasons for the detonation of the project.

The superposition of three key words, children, special people with mental retardation and art, makes these abstract paintings of "children" inspire people's sympathy and aesthetic interest. Objectively, the wide spread of the project seems to confirm a long-standing public impression that people with mental retardation are often very artistic, such as music and art.

This misunderstanding is of course based on romantic imagination. The artistic talent of special people with mental retardation is far from the public impression. Although some of them have some wonderful talents, their exertion is based on scientific and effective training.

This kind of communication trap now appears in a large number of patients with schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, hyperactivity disorder, depression, anxiety and so on. These mental diseases, which are increasingly known to the public, are mainly spread through ridicule and banter in the online world. As the most famous schizophrenic, Vincent Van Gogh's impression on the public in China is mainly his painting achievements. Miao Shiming, the founder of WABC, the founder of this charity project, publicly declared that he was looking for "Van Gogh of China".

But the problem is that Van Gogh, as a schizophrenic, suffered terribly all his life and finally committed suicide. To some extent, his paintings and his mental illness are two sides of the same coin, but when we see his artistic achievements, we always ignore his troubled heart.

Phelps, known as a once-in-a-century swimming genius, is an ADHD patient. It was because of his inexplicable excitement and vitality that his mother threw him to the swimming coach. But first of all, Phelps' case can be ignored in probability statistics. Secondly, Phelps' personal mental state has not been substantially improved because of swimming, and he has encountered no less trouble in social life. His previous scandals of smoking marijuana and drunk driving proved that his mental state was not good.

The understatement of the threat of obsessive-compulsive disorder and the ridicule of behavior are almost integrated. But in fact, the World Health Organization lists obsessive-compulsive disorder as the tenth most disabling disease. More than 30% patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder are accompanied by this disease all their lives. Nearly half of OCD patients had suicidal thoughts, and14 of OCD patients had attempted suicide. Someone once forced to check whether the name was misspelled for an hour during the exam; Someone went home after going out to check whether the door lock was locked dozens of times; Some people think that their eyes are asymmetrical and they are constantly poked, which eventually leads to blindness.

Real obsessive-compulsive disorder patients are not fun at all, let alone romantic, only painful. However, in the public sphere, obsessive-compulsive disorder is portrayed as a group who likes to organize and accept, teasing Virgo from daily social activities, which is also synonymous with obsessive-compulsive disorder and welcomes obsessive-compulsive disorder in workplace recruitment. People don't know that these phenomena they mentioned are not the real symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder, but they really hurt the hearts of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Depression and anxiety are no exception. Depression produces charm, anxiety produces motivation and so on. Fans of "positive energy" can always automatically ignore the great hardships of the disease and beautify the disease according to their own needs and judgments. Similar to mass communication, the appreciation of paintings by mentally retarded people is a strange psychological push to some extent, rather than really doing anything. Romance is a tragic story, which makes the "people who eat melons" very satisfied. After all, for the "people who eat melons", getting the greatest inner satisfaction at the lowest cost is the core purpose of living in the online world.