> Regardless of any internet-level understanding or resentment, the millennial/zoomer understanding of mental health is completely destroying people's lives.
> I work and have worked in mental health for my entire adult life (late 20s now). I have my own mental health diagnoses. I was diagnosed with severe OCD when I was 11. Since then I've gone through periods of generalized anxiety, agoraphobia, panic disorder, you name it. It has destroyed my life once every three or four years without fail. Losing jobs, friendships, my grades in college, everything. Just utter ineptitude and catatonic inability to take care of myself. I have been blessed with the most supportive family anyone could ask for. I do not fail to see the differences between myself and those who I now serve. But there is an intense illness that is permeating through our younger generations that is destroying the possibility of recovery for these people suffering through legitimate mental health issues.
> I have met and helped and treated numerous individuals now who are my peers in age - anything from 18-early 30s. And so many have internalized a generational "understanding" of mental illness that is toxic and worthless beyond condemnation. Our youngest generations' understanding of mental health enables, encourages, and at worst glorifies mental illness. I can not understate the number of times I've met a young woman who has made being mentally ill, and polysexual, and queer, and autistic, et cetera, their identity.
Can we stop pretending like being fashionably ill is a new problem plaguing our youth? This is a phenomenon that has happened before in history - Tuberculosis was seen as crazy fashionable during the romantic period, and could be part of the reason that things like pale skin, thin bodies, and fragility are STILL seen as fashionable to this day[1]. Maybe we're seeing something similar happen here?
“I can not understate the number of times I've met a young woman who has made being mentally ill, and polysexual, and queer, and autistic, et cetera, their identity.”
Not sure what OPs original meaning was, but I think a legitimate statement can be made stating that being queer/polysex (or any other non “standard” sexual identity) comes with a higher probability for mental illness due to discrimination.
A major political part in the US at the time I write this has had in their national platform the removal of rights from such people including, but not limited to, the removal of their ability to marry who they want to so it is a bit more than "perceived discrimination".
Yes but gay marriage has been legal for a while, and so now we see the invention of new things to be offended about, like they/them pronouns, and pretending that we don't actually know the definition of a man or a woman or that all that makes a man or a woman is which one they'd like to "present" as that day.
I do recall one of the arguments against gay marriage being that once gay marriage was allowed, they'd move to something else. "They literally just want to get married" was the common retort to that argument, but lo and behold, it is becoming clearer day by day that the "give them an inch" slippery slope argument may have applied here. (I support gay marriage, FWIW.)
Regardless, everyone has been discriminated against at some point in their lives, but evidently, certain groups handle it differently than others.
Said political party is fighting to get that reversed and has begun to make noise that states should be able to ban birth control because they think that Griswold v. Connecticut was wrongly decided [1]
This is a really personal opinion that comes based on a decade of life as gay and trans so if emotivism is your moral framework you really shouldn't try to tell me anything on this
Best to just make statements instead of validating mine against your power ranking
You're adorable, is what you are. Try not to embarrass yourself too much before you grow out of it - no one else will remember, but maybe you can save yourself a little cringe five years or so from now.
> I work and have worked in mental health for my entire adult life (late 20s now). I have my own mental health diagnoses. I was diagnosed with severe OCD when I was 11. Since then I've gone through periods of generalized anxiety, agoraphobia, panic disorder, you name it. It has destroyed my life once every three or four years without fail. Losing jobs, friendships, my grades in college, everything. Just utter ineptitude and catatonic inability to take care of myself. I have been blessed with the most supportive family anyone could ask for. I do not fail to see the differences between myself and those who I now serve. But there is an intense illness that is permeating through our younger generations that is destroying the possibility of recovery for these people suffering through legitimate mental health issues.
> I have met and helped and treated numerous individuals now who are my peers in age - anything from 18-early 30s. And so many have internalized a generational "understanding" of mental illness that is toxic and worthless beyond condemnation. Our youngest generations' understanding of mental health enables, encourages, and at worst glorifies mental illness. I can not understate the number of times I've met a young woman who has made being mentally ill, and polysexual, and queer, and autistic, et cetera, their identity.
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/a-broken-model-of-broke...