Forum Home | Log in | Signup | My Page | Rules | FAQ | Boards | Members | Search
« GRITZ Home | Email msg. | Reply to msg. | Post new | Board info. Previous | Home | Next

Mental Health Massage of the Day 

By: monkeytrots in GRITZ | Recommend this post (3)
Tue, 06 May 25 6:47 PM | 14 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Grits Breakfast of Champeens! 		Msg. 07934 of 07959
(This msg. is a reply to 07925 by De_Composed)
Jump:
Jump to board:
Jump to msg. #

In response to DE's excellent article on 'mental health' - the following Public Service Massage is proferred fur wats ales ya ...

(just imagine one of DE's purty liddle button gadjits here )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezBfMYt0e3k




Avatar

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good ...


 - - - - -
View Replies (1) »



» You can also:
- - - - -
The above is a reply to the following message:
We're Damaging Our Mental Health by Constantly Talking About Mental Health
By: De_Composed in GRITZ
Tue, 06 May 25 3:07 PM 		Msg. 07925 of 07959



May 5, 2025

We're Damaging Our Mental Health by Constantly Talking About Mental Health

by Brandon Morse
RedState.com


Did anyone stop to think about the fact that we're talking about mental health more than ever, yet society seems to be crazier than it's ever been?

Modernity has turned its eye to the subject of mental health, and if I'm being completely honest, I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. In fact, I think mental health is an important thing to look after because it is a functioning part of your body. Just like you should get exercise and eat right, you should also make sure you're not pushing yourself into unhealthy mental patterns. Even the Bible addresses it on several occasions.

But I think society has gotten a little too obsessed with mental health, and it's damaging the very thing we're concerned about, much in the same way one can over-water a plant.

Recently, Marvel's new Thunderbolts movie has been heralded as a film that tackles mental health dead on, resulting in a film that does and doesn't nail the topic well. Regardless, the fact that it's addressing the subject has already won it applause from all the usual suspects, including Entertainment Weekly:

The actors and director knew they were making a poignant movie through a Marvel lens, but they had no idea how impactful audiences would find it. "It's fun to talk to people about it — it seems like this side of it is really connecting, but we didn't really know that," Schreier says. "The idea was not to be pre-scripted. It was just to find a way to tell an internal story that made sense for a group of antiheroes and people who had really been through it."
Cool... but the issue here is that society has fallen into the trap of "a little is good, so a lot must be better," and that's not the case at all. Things keep referring us back to our own emotional states when we look to our escapism and say, "Hey, isn't this so relatable?" Too many people see it and say "Yes, that's me" when it's actually not, and suddenly they're adopting feelings and emotions that aren't their own. Mental health is a pretty nuanced subject because the human brain is, itself, incredibly nuanced and everyone is different as a result. Yet, it's hard to understand this when you're looking at mental health through the lens of pop culture, which has a bad habit of trying to put everyone into neatly organized boxes such as demographics.

This attempt to find commonality on the topic gives rise to shared language, often gravitating around what's called "therapy-speak," and it's become its own language.

You've probably heard some of the words online, or even in conversation with loved ones. "Trauma" is a huge one, and "triggered" was far more prevalent 10 years ago, but still lingers despite it being mocked into irrelevance. The most common one is "anxiety," which is currently society's most popular mental health topic. In fact, anxiety is a multi-billion dollar business, and probably deserves its own article.

But this hyper-focus and common language around the subject has created an obsession for individuals that results in being over-exposed to their own feelings. They begin pathologizing normal emotions like anxiety, stress, and unhappiness and seek ways to eliminate them entirely, either through medication or strict rules for social engagements and peer-to-peer interactions.

Birchwood Clinic warned that people should be careful not to mistake typical emotions as broader issues, and stop someone from actually understanding their own feelings:

One of the most concerning consequences of overpathologizing is that it undermines the normal range of human emotions. Life is full of ups and downs, and it’s natural to feel sadness, stress, fear, and frustration at different points. Labeling these experiences as pathological conditions can discourage people from accepting these feelings as part of life and learning how to cope with them in healthy ways.

For example, sadness after a loss or stress during a major life change doesn’t necessarily indicate depression or an anxiety disorder. These emotions are normal and can even be adaptive, helping us process grief or prepare for challenges. When we pathologize them, we might inadvertently teach people that they should avoid or suppress their emotions instead of understanding and working through them.
Then there are those who make having a mental illness their entire personality, and that's become something of a plague on our society. You've seen them from time to time lately, often wearing their "disorders" proudly on their sleeve, whether they were officially diagnosed by them or not. Self-diagnosis is a popular trend, and from it comes people who will attempt to control the flow and nature of conversations based on their perceived or legitimate mental issues.

What's more, you'll find that a lot of these people are"non-binary" or "transgender" in some way, shape, or form. They become a valid character for that joke you've probably heard before.

"An atheist, a vegan, and a transgender person walked into a bar. I know they did because they told everyone within five minutes."

These people are consistently reinforced in their own delusions because the topic of mental health has become such a sacred cow that attempting to bring up the idea that maybe they're not as plagued as they think can be met with serious backlash. I've experienced it once before for simply bringing up the idea of people using mental health illnesses for attention, only to be jumped on by a large portion of my friend group... most of whom were conservatives in the blogging world.

So you can't question it... but you can talk a lot about it.

In all honesty, I think the mental health topic is more dangerous than we think. It's good that it's being addressed, but we should really be realistic about it, and we just aren't.

http://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2025/05/05/were-damaging-our-mental-health-by-constantly-talking-about-mental-health-n2188705

« GRITZ Home | Email msg. | Reply to msg. | Post new | Board info. Previous | Home | Next