Is Null right about mental health?

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Follow the money.

There's a whole industry built up around convincing you that you're fucked up and you should buy their products and services to fix the issue.
 
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A vast majority of mental health issues can e fixed by having a more active, more outdoor lifestyle. Everything else is pharmaceutical buy-ins and broken people becoming psychiatrists to try to fix their own problems.
 
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The mental health industry is just as insidious and money-hungry as any other industry. They absolutely profit off of convincing perfectly normal people that their quirks and impediments are a mental disorder that needs to be treated with drugs.

But some people are just F'd. It can be a combination of things, but think about how much more toxic and unnatural our world is today. Anecdotally, I had to go on crazy pills after I gave birth. I never, ever, ever wanted to take medication.
 
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Depends.

When he's talking about people who go "Muh mentals" like Peetz? Yeah, people like them are making a choice to be miserable.

But in career fields like Emergency Services, like Firefighters, EMS (EMTs, Paramedics), and Police? Doctors? No, he's wrong, and I'm willing to bet that he'd be willing to admit that.

The "Muh mentals Muh stress Muh Trauma" excuses from Peetz, Boogie, Keffals, etc are very different from something like "Yeah I still have nightmares from a call where there was a car accident where a drunk 18 wheeler driver crashed into a van full of children, killing them all despite our best efforts to save them but the drunk driver walked away with a bruise."

One of those you can say "Have you tried just thinking positively, bro?" to and the other you can't.

That being said, he IS right that being active helps with your mental health and that is one of the first things I learned when I was in EMT school, is that exercise is a way to burn off stress.

Compare the mental health situations of the Paramedics of 20-30 years ago to today, and there is a big difference.
 
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Once had a schizophrenic friend, dead now, one of the brightest and funniest men I've known before his condition started presenting when he was about 25. I was later told his mother had a history of mental illness, so I guess the craziness that plagued him and later contributed to his death had been waiting for him all his life. One of the last times I saw him alive (many years ago), he was having an episode in Walmart where he suddenly dropped to his knees in the checkout line and started screaming, I want my face back! I want my face back! and scaring the bejesus out of everyone around. I got him in the restroom and stayed with him until he calmed down enough to give me his dad's number so I could get him the fuck out of there.

I'm not saying Null is entirely wrong on this one. Many of these weirdos who list their various make-believe mental illnesses on their social media profiles have a desperate need to feel special and garner sympathy. I am saying mental illness is very fucking real for those relative few genuinely suffering from it.
 
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Mental illness is real, and as with physical ailments sometimes it can be improved by changes to lifestyle and diet. Sometimes it can't. I knew someone who suffered from severe postpartum depression and after about two years she set herself on fire in a public park. But I also know 10+ other people who identify as mentally ill and are actually just inactive, always indoors, and eat a shitty diet.
 
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If he believes that it is a personal responsibility to deal with one's own shit, then yes, Null is right. Like, if you have bipolar, stay on your fucking meds and monitor your fluctuations. If you're addicted to crack, don't smoke crack or use any mind altering drugs that might lead you to smoking crack. If Null thinks that it's all a money making grift, he's never met a schizophrenic, and I guess I'm grateful for that.
 
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SandyCat said:
Is it all fake and gay?
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No. No it is not.
If all this open discussion about mental health saves just one mother from having to find their 9 year old child swinging from a rope in the garage then so be it.
I’ll take a dozen self diagnosed dangerhairs crying on Twitter about “their mentalz” to erase those screams from memory.
 
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Mental health problems exist when it comes to things like schizos, but the average everyday person deals with anxiety, depression, etc.,,
Those things are more of a symptom of the structure of modern life. They don't mean you have something wrong with your brain, it means you live a stressful life and that is the consequence. It's a natural reaction your body/brain has.
For example, third world niggers maybe have 3 things tops to worry about: Food, shelter, not getting killed. And none of them struggle with depression.
The average American has work, bills, rent, insurance, emails, texts, social media, prescriptions, constant appointments, money/bank management, car maintenance/payments , mortgage and house maintenance (If you own a home), children and all their fuckin extracurricular activities, and basically a whole bunch of other shit that people juggle day to day.
And you can also thank feminism for making daily life structure even more stressful because roles are not evenly divided now and everyone is expected to do everything. Remember that the 40 hour work week is structured around the idea that there is one person at home to take care of everything else.
Basically just people living stressful lifestyles mixed with bad habits and now an over abundance of cheap dopamine hits... who the fuck isn't depressed?
 
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