Do you think the world (or more specifically the US, I am interested in both) takes mental health seriously? This question has been popping into my head for months now. I'd really like to hear your opinion.
State of views on mental health
OP here,
I just feel like the world doesn't take the topic as seriously as they should. I always think about just how many crimes and how much hate could be stopped if people were given the true help that they need.
I've had this thought process of looking at peple like school shooters for example and thinking to myself, what could us as a society have done to stop this in a way that lead the shooter to never have done any of this and heal to a happier life. what could we have done better in our society to detect this kind of negative thought process and heal it before it grew worse and worse to make them do these things? I'm sorry that i say it and even i don't like thinking of this but i feel sorry that we couldn't have helped them to that tipping point. I feel for what they might have went through the pain that broke them, and how we couldn't help them before. I'm just using school shooters as an example keep in mind. same could be said for sociopaths and all types of people alike. I think the topic of mental health needs to be taken far far more seriously than it is now.
Most people just pretend to, the average person only cares when it affects them personally. Does anyone happen to have OP's image with a better resolution?
Op here,
That's exactly what i think as well. I feel people pretend to care about it just to seem nice or something of the sort.
I think there is danger in that. Some people I encounter that say they have debilitating issues with mental health don't need as much help as the very mentally ill. I went to the psych ward and half the people are normal. Having mental illness as an excuse feeds into the victim mentality a lot of people with mild to moderate mental issues suffer from. Learned helplessness and all that. There's a big difference between the most hopeless schizo and the guy who is discontent with life. Both are called mentally ill and that creates problems, standards too high for the completely dysfunctional and standards too low for the high functioning. It depends on location I guess. I remember returning from the psych ward and when I got back the people at school said I was allowed to leave whenever I wanted and take as much time as I wanted on the tests. I was perfectly capable of class but I won't if I don't have to. I guess I'm saying casting the net too wide catches more fish than you want. Some people need that much help but the mental health system as it is is medicating too many people and causing some severe social problems.
Hardly.
Mental health awareness is super fucking big as a marketing campaign and it makes normalfags feel good for "being aware" and like society gives a big damn, but when it comes to getting actual help, you have to go through a literal hell of a system that can make you wait for a year to get help even if you're near suicide and which requires a fuckload of procedures and papers to legitimate the fact that you need help.
Now I get that the system was abused to hell before so that's why you have to go through fifty million filters before getting benefits and help, but, at the same time and I speak fron experience, you get treated like a system leech everytime you go through the process. People have 0 empathy for people who suffer from depression. It took me 2 years to finally get the courage to call a burnout related to my career and admit that I have depression because my colleagues regularly talked shit about depression as if it didn't exist, that people who call a burnout are just parasites who want a free vacation and belittled anyone who was "too weak" to handle the, sometimes, illegal work conditions. Normalfags are so drilled in their slave mindset that they cannot accept being broken by the system. They pretend everything is fine as they suffer the same as me, but will argue until they are blue in the face that they're not depressed or burned out.
Then there's the diagnosis. I paid for private healthcare from my fucking pocket and still got treated condescendingly by the doctor who thought I was just a little too anxious and didn't seem to believe me when I was saying I had frequent breakdowns at work, panic attacks and that my drinking problem had never been worse. She reluctantly gave me a month off and shoved a AA pamphlet in my face as if drinkibg was the initial source of my problem and not a symptom.
I started therapy which I pay from my own pocket because the system is absolute shit and slow as fuck.
No one gives a shit
not even the doctors
they just want money
they were my only hope
now I'm waiting to die
I kinda see where you're coming from user. I can see how in some instances, we are misdiagnosing many people that dont really need the medication and can lead to other issues. But i think if we invest more research into mental health we can really start to root out the source of the problems to individuals. this could in turn lead to outcomes that maybe dont need things like medication, and make sure that only goes to those with possibly only chemical imbalances that they cant stop or things of the sort. I think this could do a lot more good.
The social stigma with mental illness is very complicated to say the least.
if someone provides the original image in a good quality I can make the text.
USA? Fuck no. They don't give a shit about health. They only care about money.
World? Probably scandinavian countries care about it the most. In east we kinda brush all that under the rug or try to. I think in the end taking care of mental health could benefit the economy since you don't need much materials to better mental health.