Do We Still Look Down On Mental Health
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Date: 2025-01-30
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NickNappi-j5o
I agree making fun of someone else’s struggles in life is messed up and shouldn’t happen. I have had people tell me I was faking having C-PTSD when i been clinically diagnosed with it for most of my life and it is not okay to accuse others of faking something they are not faking. But I don’t feel it’s okay to categorize making fun of mental illness dark humor. Dark humor comes in many forms and not all dark humor is making fun of people and mental illnesses. Making fun of people is not funny. To be honest I am worried about that people are going to misinterpret this and end up being more intolerant towards people who make dark jokes even if those jokes have nothing to do with mental illness or anything. Now that is going to put that stigma in people’s heads. I don’t appreciate that because if someone comes along and sees this video and hears that dark humor is meant to make fun of people with mental illness then that person watching is going to be more intolerant and less likely to give certain people a chance especially if they are a little dark. Not all people who are a little dark are dangerous and that is a stigma i feel has to stop. I think using a different way to describe the comments that are making fun of mental health issues would be better. For example don’t call it dark humor but call it an hurtful comment. Because unintentionally or intentionally making fun of someone else struggling is hurtful and a hurtful comment. But what also is hurtful is when someone doesn’t make a comment that makes fun of mental health and is just dark and because a person watched this video that person who said a innocent dark joke is ghosted and doesn’t have a chance. I have enough unjustified judgement towards the fact that I educated people about the history behind execution and torture and have dark humor that has nothing to do with mental illness at all. So please be careful. Seriously remember dark humor comes in many forms and not all is bad and not all people who make dark jokes have bad intentions.
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I agree making fun of someone else’s struggles in life is messed up and shouldn’t happen. I have had people tell me I was faking having C-PTSD when i been clinically diagnosed with it for most of my life and it is not okay to accuse others of faking something they are not faking. But I don’t feel it’s okay to categorize making fun of mental illness dark humor. Dark humor comes in many forms and not all dark humor is making fun of people and mental illnesses. Making fun of people is not funny. To be honest I am worried about that people are going to misinterpret this and end up being more intolerant towards people who make dark jokes even if those jokes have nothing to do with mental illness or anything. Now that is going to put that stigma in people’s heads. I don’t appreciate that because if someone comes along and sees this video and hears that dark humor is meant to make fun of people with mental illness then that person watching is going to be more intolerant and less likely to give certain people a chance especially if they are a little dark. Not all people who are a little dark are dangerous and that is a stigma i feel has to stop. I think using a different way to describe the comments that are making fun of mental health issues would be better. For example don’t call it dark humor but call it an hurtful comment. Because unintentionally or intentionally making fun of someone else struggling is hurtful and a hurtful comment. But what also is hurtful is when someone doesn’t make a comment that makes fun of mental health and is just dark and because a person watched this video that person who said a innocent dark joke is ghosted and doesn’t have a chance. I have enough unjustified judgement towards the fact that I educated people about the history behind execution and torture and have dark humor that has nothing to do with mental illness at all. So please be careful. Seriously remember dark humor comes in many forms and not all is bad and not all people who make dark jokes have bad intentions.
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enigmatic2878
Do we still look down on it I think yeah. The previous generation, our parents and grandparents, used to live a life where they had to work for everything. And if they quit or let life beat them down, there's almost no recovering from that, and being forced to always work also meant constantly having someone to talk to or be with. But today having life beat the crap out of us, we can huddle and sulk in our individual rooms and watch some cat videos until we feel better. It's looked down on because the average guy back in the day doesn't face the level of anxiety the currsnt generations feel in a world of media and technology, while someone facing mental problems back in the day used to be incredibly severe almost making look today's levels seem. pathetic that someone would struggle with it.
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Do we still look down on it I think yeah. The previous generation, our parents and grandparents, used to live a life where they had to work for everything. And if they quit or let life beat them down, there's almost no recovering from that, and being forced to always work also meant constantly having someone to talk to or be with. But today having life beat the crap out of us, we can huddle and sulk in our individual rooms and watch some cat videos until we feel better. It's looked down on because the average guy back in the day doesn't face the level of anxiety the currsnt generations feel in a world of media and technology, while someone facing mental problems back in the day used to be incredibly severe almost making look today's levels seem. pathetic that someone would struggle with it.
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Harry-q6l
It's all about the outside than the inside, if you're smiling they think you're fine
Also making jokes about your dead cousin and your dead friend/lover at grade 3
Abuse bs when some people don't understand how badly it hurts, especially when you have your father full on hitting you, emotionally mad towards you when you're not even 13 and even worse your mother calls the police and all of this because you accidentally made your sister hit the wall, bloody overkill
People also taking suicide a joke, it's easy to commit suicide, only need like a knife and a stab, just the fear of death or thinking about others holds you back
When your sanity by now doesn't exist, everyday you wake up your sanity just barely hanging on, but it is easily shattered with the surrounding you're in
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It's all about the outside than the inside, if you're smiling they think you're fine
Also making jokes about your dead cousin and your dead friend/lover at grade 3
Abuse bs when some people don't understand how badly it hurts, especially when you have your father full on hitting you, emotionally mad towards you when you're not even 13 and even worse your mother calls the police and all of this because you accidentally made your sister hit the wall, bloody overkill
People also taking suicide a joke, it's easy to commit suicide, only need like a knife and a stab, just the fear of death or thinking about others holds you back
When your sanity by now doesn't exist, everyday you wake up your sanity just barely hanging on, but it is easily shattered with the surrounding you're in
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robertgaines-tulsa
These are trying times for mental health. Empathy has been dropping. For all my childhood, I've been told you just stop being sad. It wasn't until I was an adult 25 years ago when I discovered these things were treatable. These days, things are going downhill. My late mother helped me to get onto SSI because she understood my mental illness. Yet, my maga brother wants me to drop my SSI and get a job which I feel is not only an insult to me but an insult to our mother. Just recently, trump took a sledge hammer to government funding and Medicaid was briefly taken offline. Now, I'm worried that I'll end up at Gitmo waiting to be gassed for the crime of being disabled. The mentally disabled have enough problems as is without being chased down with torches and pitchforks.
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These are trying times for mental health. Empathy has been dropping. For all my childhood, I've been told you just stop being sad. It wasn't until I was an adult 25 years ago when I discovered these things were treatable. These days, things are going downhill. My late mother helped me to get onto SSI because she understood my mental illness. Yet, my maga brother wants me to drop my SSI and get a job which I feel is not only an insult to me but an insult to our mother. Just recently, trump took a sledge hammer to government funding and Medicaid was briefly taken offline. Now, I'm worried that I'll end up at Gitmo waiting to be gassed for the crime of being disabled. The mentally disabled have enough problems as is without being chased down with torches and pitchforks.
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JannaHaleviStaAna
That's the reason why I quit making friends. I'm on my own, because one time I have a friend whom I've always been with way back middle school. Then she quicked to saying her opinions like, 'Duh, we all have problems' kind of thing. So I stopped being with her, then I found out that she aired the problems I've shared to her claiming I was overreacting to those things. Total Betrayal, she claimed I have mental illness, I'm delilu something like that. Sooo yeah, it is forever in my mind that I won't trust my problems to anybody, even to my family members. They do the similar thing, the gaslight me into thinking it's my fault without even me finishing pouring out my problems. So yeah, I have to be alone is waaaaay better when I got the chance to be independent.
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That's the reason why I quit making friends. I'm on my own, because one time I have a friend whom I've always been with way back middle school. Then she quicked to saying her opinions like, 'Duh, we all have problems' kind of thing. So I stopped being with her, then I found out that she aired the problems I've shared to her claiming I was overreacting to those things. Total Betrayal, she claimed I have mental illness, I'm delilu something like that. Sooo yeah, it is forever in my mind that I won't trust my problems to anybody, even to my family members. They do the similar thing, the gaslight me into thinking it's my fault without even me finishing pouring out my problems. So yeah, I have to be alone is waaaaay better when I got the chance to be independent.
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petersilie2210
The mental health awareness is mostly virtue signalling on all levels. Governments will talk about it, then gut healthcare and social services. Employers might act understanding about it until they let you go or treat you as constantly unreliable. Family will look down on you or use that opportunity to talk over you. Friends will maybe throw some words around but not actually help or be there, slowly fade away because you're too much work and not invite you to gatherings because they just want to have a good time. Partners will act understandingly until they figure out the illness stands between what they want and what you can provide, and it's here to stay for a longer time.
Words are nice, but actions are missing. On all levels.
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The mental health awareness is mostly virtue signalling on all levels. Governments will talk about it, then gut healthcare and social services. Employers might act understanding about it until they let you go or treat you as constantly unreliable. Family will look down on you or use that opportunity to talk over you. Friends will maybe throw some words around but not actually help or be there, slowly fade away because you're too much work and not invite you to gatherings because they just want to have a good time. Partners will act understandingly until they figure out the illness stands between what they want and what you can provide, and it's here to stay for a longer time.
Words are nice, but actions are missing. On all levels.
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LeeLee-v9e
i used to say ooh it just somthing i do haah my OCD, untill somone pionted it out to me what OCD ment i relsied that they behaviours are more linked to my ADHD or Autism. witch i have both been diagnosed with but i relised that some things like felling like somrhing bad will hapen if i dont say merry Christmas before Christmas, so i get a bad feeling and had to tell evryone merry Christmas before Christmas. and many other exsample somw might say it is just being stuipd but i feel like if i dont do or say something then somthing bad will happen.
thanks to all of Psych2go for the amazing work you do and the wide spreed of things you cover to help all of us.
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i used to say ooh it just somthing i do haah my OCD, untill somone pionted it out to me what OCD ment i relsied that they behaviours are more linked to my ADHD or Autism. witch i have both been diagnosed with but i relised that some things like felling like somrhing bad will hapen if i dont say merry Christmas before Christmas, so i get a bad feeling and had to tell evryone merry Christmas before Christmas. and many other exsample somw might say it is just being stuipd but i feel like if i dont do or say something then somthing bad will happen.
thanks to all of Psych2go for the amazing work you do and the wide spreed of things you cover to help all of us.
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AlexStillPlays
Out of guilt, i tend to say sorry several times to friendos for lightly venting sometimes, and usually refrain from sharing any more than 10% of the things going on, because of the aforementioned guilt, and not wanting to worry them, about to see a psychologist once more and MAYBE reveal my concerns of having autism. because i got. a tad too much evidence of it over the period of 7 months, and. a LOT of online friends telling me i have it from their POV, most of them have autism aswell.
Waves
(Oh ye, Autism aint. known at all in my country, so everyone i talk with just makes fun of it, so i can't even have a convo about it)
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Out of guilt, i tend to say sorry several times to friendos for lightly venting sometimes, and usually refrain from sharing any more than 10% of the things going on, because of the aforementioned guilt, and not wanting to worry them, about to see a psychologist once more and MAYBE reveal my concerns of having autism. because i got. a tad too much evidence of it over the period of 7 months, and. a LOT of online friends telling me i have it from their POV, most of them have autism aswell.
Waves
(Oh ye, Autism aint. known at all in my country, so everyone i talk with just makes fun of it, so i can't even have a convo about it)
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DeannaNewton-d7x
I genuinely hope that employers and teachers take mental health seriously, but I don't even see that happening when they don't even take physical health of their employees/students seriously. I mean it took like 100 years just for physical health to be somewhat taken seriously by the workplace, but there's still going to be people that don't take physical health seriously because they think you're too young to have insert physical health diagnosis. That being said, I don't think too many people make fun of others with physical health issues compared to making fun of people with mental health issues.
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I genuinely hope that employers and teachers take mental health seriously, but I don't even see that happening when they don't even take physical health of their employees/students seriously. I mean it took like 100 years just for physical health to be somewhat taken seriously by the workplace, but there's still going to be people that don't take physical health seriously because they think you're too young to have insert physical health diagnosis. That being said, I don't think too many people make fun of others with physical health issues compared to making fun of people with mental health issues.
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alexanderzurba7680
I find this video highly interpretive, I totally understand what's being talked about as far as mental health, people with autism go through that a lot in their lives and when it comes to matters like that, it makes autistic people feel misrepresented especially when other people especially jobs and schools look down on them by being dismissive and belittling them and telling them that it's all in their head and using this reason of mental health as an excuse to have bad days, but yeah I'm glad that we now live in an age where people aren't as ignorant about mental health as they were years ago.
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I find this video highly interpretive, I totally understand what's being talked about as far as mental health, people with autism go through that a lot in their lives and when it comes to matters like that, it makes autistic people feel misrepresented especially when other people especially jobs and schools look down on them by being dismissive and belittling them and telling them that it's all in their head and using this reason of mental health as an excuse to have bad days, but yeah I'm glad that we now live in an age where people aren't as ignorant about mental health as they were years ago.
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BeybladeEclipse
I absolutely hate it when people don’t take mental health seriously. I’m personally having a chat to my bestie about my suicidal thoughts, and yet I’m getting death comments telling me to kill myself. Also my classes reaction when I told them I have severe depression/anxiety was unserious and they made a lot of fun of me. I’m in healing process, just letting those feelings out and stuff, I’m grateful to those who helped me if it weren’t for all you guys, I wouldn’t be here
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I absolutely hate it when people don’t take mental health seriously. I’m personally having a chat to my bestie about my suicidal thoughts, and yet I’m getting death comments telling me to kill myself. Also my classes reaction when I told them I have severe depression/anxiety was unserious and they made a lot of fun of me. I’m in healing process, just letting those feelings out and stuff, I’m grateful to those who helped me if it weren’t for all you guys, I wouldn’t be here
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MissSparrow. 1
Invisible disabilities naturally get less recognition because people can’t see the struggle. If someone’s in a wheelchair, society builds ramps because the need is obvious. But with mental health, there’s no visible sign, so it often gets ignored. On top of that, shame plays a big rolejust like how cancer patients get more sympathy than people with AIDS, mental health struggles are often seen as a personal failing instead of a real health issue.
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Invisible disabilities naturally get less recognition because people can’t see the struggle. If someone’s in a wheelchair, society builds ramps because the need is obvious. But with mental health, there’s no visible sign, so it often gets ignored. On top of that, shame plays a big rolejust like how cancer patients get more sympathy than people with AIDS, mental health struggles are often seen as a personal failing instead of a real health issue.
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I_The_Patient_One
Being diagnosed with autism at 10 and raised by a parent with bipolar disorder who needs their medication to stay sane, it’s hard for me to understand how so many people can dismiss the existence of mental disorders just because they can’t see them.
Especially now that I’ve started looking into reclaiming myself and discovering just how broken I am. Been working on it for a couple of years now and still so far left to go.
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Being diagnosed with autism at 10 and raised by a parent with bipolar disorder who needs their medication to stay sane, it’s hard for me to understand how so many people can dismiss the existence of mental disorders just because they can’t see them.
Especially now that I’ve started looking into reclaiming myself and discovering just how broken I am. Been working on it for a couple of years now and still so far left to go.
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jessegaray7427
I'll be honest. it's ridiculous how many people struggle with this problem because of the lack of knowledge, Trying to be strong or face lifes adversity does not constitute strength. I should know I've been through a rough patch and still do, and I just don't want to be stuck anymore or hurt. I want to be able to have better leveling of energy and a better amount of understanding from others
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I'll be honest. it's ridiculous how many people struggle with this problem because of the lack of knowledge, Trying to be strong or face lifes adversity does not constitute strength. I should know I've been through a rough patch and still do, and I just don't want to be stuck anymore or hurt. I want to be able to have better leveling of energy and a better amount of understanding from others
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YourNickIsTaken
I was Raised by fear and shame driven motivation.
I'm ashamed to ask for help when it would be appropriate.
I'm in constant fear that I'm not good enough.
I'm afraid of being constantly judged, and every little mistake is magnified just like in school and I will have no opportunity to fix things.
This is my mental state. And I know now that I'm not alone with this.
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I was Raised by fear and shame driven motivation.
I'm ashamed to ask for help when it would be appropriate.
I'm in constant fear that I'm not good enough.
I'm afraid of being constantly judged, and every little mistake is magnified just like in school and I will have no opportunity to fix things.
This is my mental state. And I know now that I'm not alone with this.
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IndecisiveJR
Think for me personally the black community doesn't address mental health really at all. Maybe especially as the years go on maybe Black people rather be seen as less problematic and want to be seen as intelligent or sophisticated without baggage in todays society especially or don't want to be seen as weak or have similar problems that other races have in any regard.
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Think for me personally the black community doesn't address mental health really at all. Maybe especially as the years go on maybe Black people rather be seen as less problematic and want to be seen as intelligent or sophisticated without baggage in todays society especially or don't want to be seen as weak or have similar problems that other races have in any regard.
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psych2go
So many of us have CPTSD but are diagnosed with other things. High ACE scores insecure attachment high number of CPTSD symptoms = potential of CPTSD. It should be considered in therapy where the potential ramifications are clearly understood and addressed. Might want to think consulting a therapist trained in trauma, with developmental years information.
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So many of us have CPTSD but are diagnosed with other things. High ACE scores insecure attachment high number of CPTSD symptoms = potential of CPTSD. It should be considered in therapy where the potential ramifications are clearly understood and addressed. Might want to think consulting a therapist trained in trauma, with developmental years information.
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arthurpenfield8229
Unfortunately I was brought up in a household that did not know the meaning of the word mental health. Back in the 90s if you had a problem with depression or whatever, you were deemed as mentally retarded. When people find out there's something wrong with you upstairs, they flee and complain about you to someone else. People are heartless and mean.
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Unfortunately I was brought up in a household that did not know the meaning of the word mental health. Back in the 90s if you had a problem with depression or whatever, you were deemed as mentally retarded. When people find out there's something wrong with you upstairs, they flee and complain about you to someone else. People are heartless and mean.
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JourneysUnseen
As someone in the audit and finance industry with friends in high pressure careers, though there is more awareness of mental health, it isn't taken as seriously as it should. When it's brought up we are told that we are lazy, especially if we haven't had an actual diagnoses as such conditions are not even covered by medical aid to begin with.
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As someone in the audit and finance industry with friends in high pressure careers, though there is more awareness of mental health, it isn't taken as seriously as it should. When it's brought up we are told that we are lazy, especially if we haven't had an actual diagnoses as such conditions are not even covered by medical aid to begin with.
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sandiletwala3001
Mentally I'm numb because I don't want to acknowledge my mental things because life in my eyes is just another day at the office and everything I encounter good or bad doesn't surprise me anymore. So maybe mentally I may have a problem but I just choose to bottle it and continue to be numb, emotionless both mentally and emotionally
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Mentally I'm numb because I don't want to acknowledge my mental things because life in my eyes is just another day at the office and everything I encounter good or bad doesn't surprise me anymore. So maybe mentally I may have a problem but I just choose to bottle it and continue to be numb, emotionless both mentally and emotionally
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