Fabulous! Good for you it’s very brave to go against the status quo. There are so many rich ideas in this piece. The idea that mental health and mental illness are synonymous, they are not. The idea that grieving for too long is pathological. The idea that there is an ideal way to express every emotion. The idea that if you don’t express it in this ideal way, there’s something wrong with you. I’m tired of it all. It’s not authentic humanness. I have had the benefit of knowledgeable, experienced, well-educated therapists and I cannot put a value on that, it’s priceless. I’m very careful about who I allow into my most sacred spaces. There’s definitely no room there for the Idiocracy of social media. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be many ways of finding information anymore aside from social media. It’s becoming well known that there’s very little truth out there anymore.
Thank you for this, it was almost a manifesto I’d happily frame haha. The conflation of mental health with sanitized, marketable “wellness” is exhausting, I’m with you…authentic humanness is messy, nonlinear, and rarely algorithm-friendly. I sometimes feel like I’m in open rebellion against the very narratives my field helped popularize.
Fabulous! Good for you it’s very brave to go against the status quo. There are so many rich ideas in this piece. The idea that mental health and mental illness are synonymous, they are not. The idea that grieving for too long is pathological. The idea that there is an ideal way to express every emotion. The idea that if you don’t express it in this ideal way, there’s something wrong with you. I’m tired of it all. It’s not authentic humanness. I have had the benefit of knowledgeable, experienced, well-educated therapists and I cannot put a value on that, it’s priceless. I’m very careful about who I allow into my most sacred spaces. There’s definitely no room there for the Idiocracy of social media. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be many ways of finding information anymore aside from social media. It’s becoming well known that there’s very little truth out there anymore.
Thank you for this, it was almost a manifesto I’d happily frame haha. The conflation of mental health with sanitized, marketable “wellness” is exhausting, I’m with you…authentic humanness is messy, nonlinear, and rarely algorithm-friendly. I sometimes feel like I’m in open rebellion against the very narratives my field helped popularize.