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Why? Mental illnesses are not a choice, so its not others will start getting mental illnesses if its celebrated. But if you're successful despite a mental illn
by aliakhtar 7y ago
Why? Mental illnesses are not a choice, so its not others will start getting mental illnesses if its celebrated.
But if you're successful despite a mental illness (by any measure of success), its worth celebrating that so others with that condition can see it can be overcome. And it'll help reduce stigma.
- jshevek 7y agoYou are correct on the benefits of reducing stigma, but that is something else altogether. You response doesn't seem to have anything to do with my statement. Celebrating success is not the same as celebrating mental illness. While discreet thresholds and states exist in mental illness, many exist on a spectrum. The real world consequences of some mental illness are influenced by the choices made by the person. Subcultures which celebrate mental illness often have the effect of enabling the worst forms of irresponsible mismanagement.
- antepodius 7y ago>so its not others will start getting mental illnesses if its celebrated If you celebrate mental illness itself, fetishise it, blast out images of good-looking successful people with SHE'S BIPOLAR next to it, people will emulate it. It's fashion. It's what we do with everything. The way mental illnesses are 'discovered' and grouped, as best as I can tell from what I've heard psychologists talk about it, is by a duck method. If it looks, talks, walks like depression, we'll call it that. The actual underlying causal networks are yet mostly mysterious, so they're not the basis of the defintions. The way they're defined is basically behavioural.