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They're different problems, but the the feelgood intent with large, unintended consequences is what I'm referring to, rather than the contexts themselves. I to
by bpchaps 10y ago
They're different problems, but the the feelgood intent with large, unintended consequences is what I'm referring to, rather than the contexts themselves.
I totally think that we should be using what we've learned from employment gender/racial issues to help out mental health problems. Not saying we shouldn't. I'm suggesting that the conversation should be much broader to address it at the level of empathy, without resorting to ego compartmentalization. If the empathy problems can be fixed, I highly suspect that everything else will fall in line.
As bold of a statement as that is, it matches my experience where simply telling someone "I have bipolar" increases communicative empathy. That's almost never an option though, since the subject is taboo enough that mentioning it has negative consequences.
Why should we wait until gender issues are "fixed" to try to address that taboo?