Great companion to the latest Unraveling episode, which you'll be happy to note I listened to while building a shed. Actually, a fort for my kid, so I just didn't have time to plan any mass violence.
Last year sometime I postulated to my small social media family that we may very well be producing mental illness in otherwise healthy (or…
Great companion to the latest Unraveling episode, which you'll be happy to note I listened to while building a shed. Actually, a fort for my kid, so I just didn't have time to plan any mass violence.
Last year sometime I postulated to my small social media family that we may very well be producing mental illness in otherwise healthy (or at least healthy enough) individuals by always indulging and engaging, and simply talking about it all the time. I am 50 years old, and have had issues with mood/anger/depression for as long as I can remember, but I do not talk about it casually. When I do talk about it I get lots of well-meaning advice, and attempts at support, but really it is all just talk, and does little to help. Now, I'm not sure we should never speak of these things, but I'm also not sure that it should be so normal that it actually loses the significance that it holds for the sufferer. We have also been normalizing behaviours in the same way, and I think we have passed some tipping points along the way. In my country we also have closed mental health institutions (the confine-you type) and seem totally ok with severely mentally ill folks wandering the streets. And I think that maybe the prevalence of such overt mental illness is blinding us to the more subtle troubles that many people are going through. It's another example of desensitization. We don't see the awkward teen as the threat that he is because downtown there is a guy who shits on the sidewalk while masturbating at passing cars.
Great companion to the latest Unraveling episode, which you'll be happy to note I listened to while building a shed. Actually, a fort for my kid, so I just didn't have time to plan any mass violence.
Last year sometime I postulated to my small social media family that we may very well be producing mental illness in otherwise healthy (or at least healthy enough) individuals by always indulging and engaging, and simply talking about it all the time. I am 50 years old, and have had issues with mood/anger/depression for as long as I can remember, but I do not talk about it casually. When I do talk about it I get lots of well-meaning advice, and attempts at support, but really it is all just talk, and does little to help. Now, I'm not sure we should never speak of these things, but I'm also not sure that it should be so normal that it actually loses the significance that it holds for the sufferer. We have also been normalizing behaviours in the same way, and I think we have passed some tipping points along the way. In my country we also have closed mental health institutions (the confine-you type) and seem totally ok with severely mentally ill folks wandering the streets. And I think that maybe the prevalence of such overt mental illness is blinding us to the more subtle troubles that many people are going through. It's another example of desensitization. We don't see the awkward teen as the threat that he is because downtown there is a guy who shits on the sidewalk while masturbating at passing cars.