The problem with most fanfiction on this site

I totally agree with you! I am very picky on this site because nearly every single fanfic is the same with these 'major issues'. Yes depression, bulimia and suicide are serious issues that are affecting young people today but the majority of these fanfics are clearly written by young teenagers who are obsessed with thinking that self harming is cool or whatever. I find it incredibly frustrating because they clearly don't understand how a person feels when they're that down. I've just recently been diagnosed with depression and I was very close to self-harming again, my aunt committed suicide and I was in an abusive relationship but I'm getting help and I use this site as a creative outlet and a coping mechanim, even though i've experienced some of the shit these authors write about, even I get sick of them. I actually sometimes get offended to the way some of the stories are written but then again it's probably due to the authors own ignorance.

What also annoys me as a writer is that I feel that when I lose subscribers and such, it's because my story doesn't have all that drama. What's wrong with having a nice relatively drama free story? Or perhaps it could just be because i'm not very good. Either way, i'm saying I agree, not every story needs a main character who is depressed. I don't think that it should mean depression, self-harm, suicide and abuse should never be put into stories, in fact I think it could be extremely beneficial if someone did it right. But with them being such complex issues I understand it would be very difficult to do. I personally would love to do one based on my own life experiences but just don't know if I could do it justice.

@Leah
Trust me, i wouldnt expect a kiss either and my depression go away. But the self harm and bullying and suicidal thoughts and actions, are realistic but some arent. My uncle, back in the 90's hung himself. My other uncle attempted suicide by jumping off a building. My father, my own father, was a self harmer and attempted suicide. So if you are telling me that all of these suicides and depression are unrealistic, my family is very realistic.

And reading these stories wont make a problem disappear. I know this as a fact. Im trying to get clean of self harming, these stories dont make it disappear but they give me a look into alternate lives of my heroes.

(BTW: if you still feel like killing yourself or still have thoughts message me and we could talk, mutal feeling then)

plus if you dont like these themes dont read it, or dont say you think it should stop because you can write what you want, i can write what i want, and the person who has been to all of the My Chemical Romance concerts before can write what they think about or think will make an excellent story.

Also spme of the very best have had these themes in them.

I agree that most of the fics on this site are unrealistic, and that a good story can be written without the characters having an eating dissorder or coming from an abusive relationship etc. But in the end it is the authors decision to include those themes in their stories. I'm not trying to come off as rude, but if you find stories like that offensive because they are unrealistic, you don't have to read them. There are plenty of other fics that don't include those themes.

@Chloe_XD13

no no no no no. You can't tell me that someone reading this makes them better. Trust me. When I was trying to figure out how to kill myself, looking through stories so I didn't go do something worse instead, none of these helped me. Not one. Do you know why? Because they ARE unrealistic, because most of them are childish, and almost all of them are complete fantasy. I'm not saying that you absolutely can't write about someone who has depression, but write it with some respect! Write about how it can take weeks for someone to not feel guilty about being happy, write about how sometimes you know someone wants to help but you don't want them disappointed in not getting well so you push them away, write about how different medications make you sick and sometimes make things worse before the chemicals start working.

Just don't expect me to sit here and read about how just because someone got a kiss in the hallway from their crush they are instantly better.

@MCR_ShatteredHeart

I'm not saying that a writer who uses those things as a plot device is a bad writer. I'm saying that if a person HAS to have something like that for a character to be 'interesting', if they cannot write a character without that, that without a suicide attempt under their belt the character is 'boring', that's what makes someone a bad writer. There are so many more things that can give a character the angst that most people (myself included) like to read and write about.