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If my parents had noticed that I had severe social anxiety they might have considered getting me help and I potentially wouldn't have ended up as disconnected a

If my parents had noticed that I had severe social anxiety they might have considered getting me help and I potentially wouldn't have ended up as disconnected and friendless as I have via being enabled for much of my life. I didn't know anxiety was a treatable condition until I was 21. And I've only been able to actually go get help years after that.

telxosss 5y ago
No doubt. To me all this relates to an implicit dualism and just not taking mental health seriously still. I just don't think we ever will while viewing the mind as one thing and the body as another. There will always be this bias that we would consider morally really off if discussing a "physical" health problem. Even being aware of this I have a bias with typing out "mental health" without realizing it. We are probably doomed until "brain health" replaces "mental health" in common language. I had really bad social anxiety about a decade ago but the treatment for my ingrown toe nail was so much better and taken more seriously than a problem with my brain. The first person I went to about it had a community college degree and said they didn't believe in medication. Just incredible.