This might be an unpopular opinion - but I don't think as many people as we think suffer from "mental health issues"
I think a lot of people are just flat out weak. And rather than encourage strength and tenacity, we reward that weakness.
I've always found it objectively gross.
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“This might be an unpopular opinion”
Unpopular and very much factually wrong. Are you a shrink? Because if you’re not, it is also utterly irrelevant to anyone going to actual therapy.
“I think a lot of people are just flat out weak.”
Some people can be and you have no right to force your “strength” on them. We’ve been there before specieswise, trying to treat mental problems just like a passing weakness, things that could be buried under the booze and the violent delights at a game ring. We’ve made a shitload of really broken people from those days and some of them sadly managed to instill that brokeness into others.
“I've always found it objectively gross.”
I find you opinion gross, uneducated and blatantly ignorant.
I think a lot of people are just flat out weak.
And that is considered wrong because…? Seriously, you sound like a social darwinist, you douche!
I never understood Social Darwinists (who always consider themselves to be the “strong” in the comparison) hatred for the “weak”. Weak is a very relative term, after all, and guaranteed to change. Hell, it’s funny how most Social Darwinists tend to abandon their own philosophy once they are no longer considered the “strong”.
Seriously, the only way I’d employ Social Darwinism if I were to be the “strong” is to put other Social Darwinists in their place. Beating them up until they treat the weak with respect.
...sayeth that which has a problem with certain people.
Thus exposing its own weakness.
Nice residence you have there: which resembles a greenhouse. I guess that pile of stones there is your collection of such you have a certain psychological need to throw around: thus that even bigger pile of bills from glaziers, eh OP...?!
This might be a popular onion pun - but I won't think as many people as Ed thinks suffer from "the menial halt issues"
I think a lawn of Korn people just flout tea. And rather than encourage the great and a tent city, we reward that fakeness.
I've always wound it grossly objective.
“I think a lot of people are just flat out weak.”
That’s not just unpopular, that’s toxic.
Even IF this is true, it’s discouraging the actually ill people from admitting to it, or seeking help. It’s shaming anyone with need for help or desire for improvement. So even if ‘the weak’ pull themselves up by their bootstraps, the actual ill suffer even more.
Oh how I wish I could pluck all of the amxiety, grivious depression, every moment of existential dispair and PTSD and all of the feelings of rejection, social alienation and suicidal thoughts and feelings out of my brain and plunk it into your brain, just so you could feel what I and millions of others suffer through every day.
But, you know what, Im still hear. I am strong enough to not give into my illness and I sought treatment for the worst of my symptoms. Im a far better person than OP could hope to be.
Even diamond cracks, you insufferable cunt. It is not “weak” to be wounded, to have limitations, to need to heal, it is human. Your unfamiliarity with the concept is a sickness unto itself, one that makes depression look fucking benign.
And some wounds, some sicknesses, they never heal. You can only learn to live with them one day at a time.
Who are you to say what is weakness and what is strength? First off, it’s ok to be ‘weak’, whatever you define that is. We are living creatures, not machines. Second, I see admitting that one has a mental illness and getting help as strength. OP has no idea how hard it is to do this. OP’s attitude in fact is partially why it takes so much strength to talk about mental health issues in the first place.
@ArkBien #107852
My best friend has MS and we were talking about this very thing yesterday. Ever seen a movie called Powder? I don’t remember it being that great (it’s been 25 years since I’ve seen it) but the main character is kind of like the embodiment of empathy. There is a scene where he touches a deer that has just been shot and then touches the hunter and is able to make the hunter feel the pain the deer feels. I have always wanted to be able to do that. Not to be cruel, but just to show people that, yes, my migraines are real. Yes, endometriosis is fucking painful! Yes, depression does have physical pain with it.
Oh, humans…
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