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This sums up perfectly the issue with mental health problems. Burn-out. Depression. ADHD. Being 'old'. You cut slack for someone with a broken leg or a blind c

• djeiasbsbo 6y ago
  Exactly. I think one of the problems is that "invisible" handicaps do not invoke an emotional response. In fact it is even worse because e.g. irrational behaviour of a mentally ill person often invokes a negative response. This results in stigmatisation, which is inherently counter productive. A general mindset change is needed to address this on a larger scale. Specifically, in education there should be much more of a focus on ethics than there is now. This is hard because it can be in contrast to "profit-focused" education where e.g. the main goal of studying a field is to get a well paying job at a big company. But of course there are many factors there such as how a university is funded and can keep running. Sadly, it doesn't look like the general population is ready for these discussions because as a human race, we cannot even get over more known/discussed problems such as racism.