Why the Rise of Mental Illness? Pathologizing Pathologizing Normal and a Peculiar Rebellion. (narcissistic, anxiety)
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This article so resonated with my feelings about the surrounding reality. I just want to ask the eternal forum question: how many people feel the same way? I can't say it any better than the author so I just cite a few pieces, I would have cited many more, but that would be against the forum rules. So if any of you would read the article share your thoughts.
Life may or may not suck any more than it did a generation ago, but our belief in “progress” has increased expectations that life should be more satisfying, resulting in mass disappointment. For many of us, society has become increasingly alienating, isolating, and insane, and earning a buck means more degrees, compliance, ass-kissing, ****-eating, and inauthenticity. So, we want to rebel. However, many of us feel hopeless about the possibility of either our own escape from societal oppression or that political activism can create societal change. So, many of us, especially young Americans, rebel by what is commonly called mental illness.
Many of us, sadly, are ashamed of our inefficiency and nonproductivity and desperately try to fit in. However, try as we might to pay attention, adapt, adjust, and comply with our alienating jobs, boring schools, and sterile society, our humanity gets in the way, and we become anxious, depressed, and dysfunctional.
But today the idea that the mental illness epidemic is also being caused by a peculiar rebellion against a dehumanizing society has been, for the most part, removed from the mainstream map. When a societal problem grows to become all-encompassing, we often no longer even notice it.
This article so resonated with my feelings about the surrounding reality. I just want to ask the eternal forum question: how many people feel the same way? I can't say it any better than the author so I just cite a few pieces, I would have cited many more, but that would be against the forum rules. So if any of you would read the article share your thoughts.
Life may or may not suck any more than it did a generation ago, but our belief in “progress” has increased expectations that life should be more satisfying, resulting in mass disappointment. For many of us, society has become increasingly alienating, isolating, and insane, and earning a buck means more degrees, compliance, ass-kissing, ****-eating, and inauthenticity. So, we want to rebel. However, many of us feel hopeless about the possibility of either our own escape from societal oppression or that political activism can create societal change. So, many of us, especially young Americans, rebel by what is commonly called mental illness.
Many of us, sadly, are ashamed of our inefficiency and nonproductivity and desperately try to fit in. However, try as we might to pay attention, adapt, adjust, and comply with our alienating jobs, boring schools, and sterile society, our humanity gets in the way, and we become anxious, depressed, and dysfunctional.
But today the idea that the mental illness epidemic is also being caused by a peculiar rebellion against a dehumanizing society has been, for the most part, removed from the mainstream map. When a societal problem grows to become all-encompassing, we often no longer even notice it.
What exactly do you mean by progress? Do you mean better services and goods? That has to be paid for with equally better services and goods. So I think it is necessary that we improve our skills or else be happy with less.
I dont know but I can tell you prescription drugs are killing our brains... I just took some stuff for my back.. (herniated disk) and wow.... Lord help me...glad is better. and I am human again
It's simpler than that. As human society becomes more complex, characteristics that make a person an outlier become more conspicuous, and names are coined to describe them and treatments devised to mitigate their societal damage. There were no thieves before there was personal property. There were no pyromaniacs before man learned to manage fire. There was no adultery before there was monogamy. There was no agoraphobia before there were marketplaces, and no acrophobia before plainsmen found trees to climb. There were no trolls before there were internet forums.
It's simpler than that. As human society becomes more complex, characteristics that make a person an outlier become more conspicuous, and names are coined to describe them and treatments devised to mitigate their societal damage. There were no thieves before there was personal property. There were no pyromaniacs before man learned to manage fire. There was no adultery before there was monogamy. There was no agoraphobia before there were marketplaces, and no acrophobia before plainsmen found trees to climb. There were no trolls before there were internet forums.
Excellent answer, I was going to say something along the same lines. I would also like to add that, because our society has become more "self absorbed" they are much quicker to label someone with a mental illness. Because they are not "normal", by their standards.
The sad thing is, with this "rise" in mental illness, it makes me wonder "what is normal?" If 25% of the population has some form of mental illness, that means their's (at least) 77 million people are "different".
Its not so much a rise in mental illness- its that more people are being pushed to the limit emotionally in the current consumption based dog eat dog culture we live. When people begin to break down emotionally they get help- and its here they usually get diagnosed. On the rise are anxiety disorders (which can be extremely debilitating) Depression- but also Personality disorders- like Borderline, Narcissistic, Anti Social and histrionic- all of which can be very destructive. Bi Polar disorder is also under diagnosed until the patient breaks down.
Medication and or therapy are the main avenues in which the patient can find relief.
Its not so much a rise in mental illness- its that more people are being pushed to the limit emotionally in the current consumption based dog eat dog culture we live. When people begin to break down emotionally they get help- and its here they usually get diagnosed. On the rise are anxiety disorders (which can be extremely debilitating) Depression- but also Personality disorders- like Borderline, Narcissistic, Anti Social and histrionic- all of which can be very destructive. Bi Polar disorder is also under diagnosed until the patient breaks down.
Medication and or therapy are the main avenues in which the patient can find relief.
True I agree.
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