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Language matters. It has far reaching consequences. Right now in mainstream culture mental health is used as a weapon to drag people down, or as virtual signal
by MSbPSurvivor 6y ago
Language matters. It has far reaching consequences. Right now in mainstream culture mental health is used as a weapon to drag people down, or as virtual signaling and advertising conditions/medications/lifestyles with mental illnesses. It's being glamorized.
No it's not okay to use misleading language to describe, discuss, debate or eve refer to an extremely complex problem. That's how you get even more unintended problems: by not looking at the hard truths and operating off of them.
It matters because people think that most mental illnesses make the person less than, or they become insecure or fearful of people with basic mental issues and then become afraid to talk about their own.
Psychiatrists have been taking advantage of people with normal, run of the mill problems for decades. Their own industry insiders have been calling them out for years on over diagnosis. There is a very real incentive for psychiatrists to make poeple sick, or convince someone who is perfectly healthy otherwise to go on medications that will completely change their body chemistry and life.
Your attitude and approach to this problem is ignorant at best. You should speak to people before coming to such baseless conclusions and spewing them forth.
This isn't a euphemism treadmill. This is science and it makes perfect sense. Tons of people are experiencing chemical imbalances because of habits, and because of the way they are treated or disconnected with others throughout our culture. If you abuse someone emotionally and mentally enough, it will show physically, and it doesn't take much pal. I don't know what universe you're living in but maybe get out of the macho "i'm so badass" comic books metality for two seconds and realize medical abuse and corruption within our medical industries is FUBAR.