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this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2024
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It’s fine to critique how “mental illness” is portrayed in pop culture, but the medical term is important. Yes, society is tough, but that doesn’t mean your struggles aren’t real or treatable. You can’t fight for change if you can’t get out of bed. Taking care of yourself is never something to feel bad about. <3
I think you're misrepresenting the comment.
Depression as a medical term only applies to people who have objectively nothing to be depressed about. Nobody would (to turn it up to 11) argue that a concentration camp inmate has depression when he's feeling like everything's fucked, because very objectively, everything is fucked in his environment.
The comment is instead about people who are thrown into a depressing, pointless situation they can't escape, just like the prisoner, only much much milder. They see no future, because there truly is no future for them. Now, that would be horrible for society, because those people might start to question why exactly they're in this situation. So as a bandaid, they get diagnosed. It's not actually shit, you just see it like that, because you are sick. Here, take a pill. It's gaslighting.
The rolling Stones had a song about mother's little helper 50 years ago. It's not exactly new.
WTF? No.