Monday, February 5, 2007

Got Mental Illness? Tell The World With Your T-Shirt

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DisorderTees is a website that makes fun together with mental disease sufferers. The idea is to make their life a little brighter, to cope with disease, and maybe to increase awareness.

Don't let a diagnosis ruin your life! Join the Revolution and fight back with one of our very funny Disorder Tees from paranoid issue shirts to delusional issue tees and conduct disorder problem t-shirts ! The real alternative to medication.

O.C.D Disorder Issue

O.C.D Disorder Issue Obsessions as defined by (1), (2), (3), and (4): 1.recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses, or images that are experienced, at some time during the disturbance, as intrusive and inappropriate and that cause marked anxiety or distress 2.the thoughts, impulses, or images are not simply excessive worries about real-life problems 3.the person attempts to ignore or suppress such thoughts, impulses, or images, or to neutralize them with some other thought or action 4.the person recognizes that the obsessional thoughts, impulses, or images are a product of his or her own mind (not imposed from without as in thought insertion) Compulsions as defined by (1) and (2): 1.repetitive behaviors (e.g., hand washing, ordering, checking) or mental acts (e.g., praying, counting, repeating words silently) that the person feels driven to perform in response to an obsession, or according to rules that must be applied rigidly 2.the behaviors or mental acts are aimed at preventing or reducing distress or preventing some dreaded event or situation; however, these behaviors or mental acts either are not connected in a realistic way with what they are designed to neutralize or prevent or are clearly excessive.

Disorder Tees . . .

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I *get* dark humor. I get that those with mental illnesses (and their families) are sometimes justified in using such humor. Still, these shirts are a very bad idea.


Posted by: kayemmdee
on February 5, 2007 07:52 AM GMT

The messages on these t-shirts serve only to perpetuate stigma towards mental illness. Having a serious mental illness is no laughing matter. Besides, you don't see people wearing t-shirts reading "I have cancer, it's funny". These shirts do nothing to alleviate the burden of mental illness on its sufferers.


Posted by: Jennifer Forbes
on February 5, 2007 06:30 PM GMT

Jennifer Forbes:

How about this one?


Posted by: DrO
on February 5, 2007 07:01 PM GMT

i love these shirts. without humor how in the hell can you deal with it?! get over it people. LAUGH! it makes life so much easier. and funnier!


Posted by: i have a mental illness
on September 18, 2008 06:26 PM GMT

I have severe OCD and take a heavy dose of prozac and I find this hillarious. I'll take 10! Everyone else just wants to feel all high and mighty and self-righteous about things they don't struggle with themselves.


Posted by: Ryan Neale
on February 17, 2009 04:40 PM GMT

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