How is an obsession with avoiding life, people, socializing, fresh air, and maintaining practices that make no sense not a form of mental illness? I mean we're talking about hychondria, paranoia, anxiety, self-instilled depression, etc etc. I'm not picking on people who struggle with legit mental illness, but I am saying that mental illness has been fetishized, and that people are making things worse for themselves, rather than better. People who started off with issues are making those issues worse, in choosing anti-social, anti-life behaviour, then imposing that on everyone else. It's EXTREMELY controlling and irrational.
Again, the point wasn't to shame people suffering from actual mental illnesses or conditions, it was to point out that these people were behaving as though they were mentally ill, and also that the lockdowns etc HURT people's mental health. People invented mental illnesses for themselves as an excuse, and people who are not mentally healthy people dominated everyone else, forcing their unhealthy desires and lives on the rest of us.
I think it's possible you may be feeling defensive, as mental illness is framed as a bad thing in my piece. To be fair, it is a bad thing, though it doesn't make you as an individual a bad person...
How is an obsession with avoiding life, people, socializing, fresh air, and maintaining practices that make no sense not a form of mental illness? I mean we're talking about hychondria, paranoia, anxiety, self-instilled depression, etc etc. I'm not picking on people who struggle with legit mental illness, but I am saying that mental illness has been fetishized, and that people are making things worse for themselves, rather than better. People who started off with issues are making those issues worse, in choosing anti-social, anti-life behaviour, then imposing that on everyone else. It's EXTREMELY controlling and irrational.
Again, the point wasn't to shame people suffering from actual mental illnesses or conditions, it was to point out that these people were behaving as though they were mentally ill, and also that the lockdowns etc HURT people's mental health. People invented mental illnesses for themselves as an excuse, and people who are not mentally healthy people dominated everyone else, forcing their unhealthy desires and lives on the rest of us.
I think it's possible you may be feeling defensive, as mental illness is framed as a bad thing in my piece. To be fair, it is a bad thing, though it doesn't make you as an individual a bad person...