What do people need to stop romanticizing?

killing people and drugs.

Eating disorders. It’s not beautiful and tragic, it’s just a lot of gross shit. Like hoarding bags of chewed up food under your bed. Taking laxatives until you piss water out of your ass and you’re so dehydrated you have to go to the hospital. Having dentures/implants at 30 because your teeth rotted out. Walking around in public not realizing you have vomit in your hair, which by the way, is falling out by the fistful. I remember reading one horrifying story from an ER nurse who had a patient who was literally vomiting faeces because her stool was so impacted due to constipation from her anorexia. Imagine vomiting your own shit.

And that’s not including risks like heart failure, life-threatening arrhythmias, brain atrophy, gastric rupture…

There’s nothing pretty about eating disorders.

Giant weddings. Why are you putting yourself into crazy debt and through a bunch of stress for a giant event you probably won’t even be able to fully enjoy?
Save your money, elope and buy a cool house or go take an awesome vacation.

Overworking.

The people at my job seem to make it a contest of who sacrifices more for their job. Who works the most overtime? Who does things off the clock for work more? Etc

It’s bullshit. I have a life and a family I want to prioritize.

mental illnesses