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AlexandrB 5 days ago

> We also stigmatize mental health care in the west, telling people to “suck it up” or “get over it”.

I think this idea is ~10 years out of date. If anything, we now seem pathologize every behavior and personality quirk into a mental health issue. At least on social media, it's also trendy to have a mental health issue to the point that people will claim to have ADHD because they're easily distracted by their phones. I've also lost count of the number of big "content creators" who casually mention their therapist or going to therapy. If there is a stigma, it's not found among the younger generations.

SoftTalker 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

I think for people over 50, I guess "Gen X" and older, this is still often true. I've never considered therapy or medical help for any way that I was "feeling" and certainly have had times of grief and loss and sadness in my life. In some of those moments, when peers or friends noticed it, the gist of their advice was to “suck it up” or “get over it”.

I am also introverted, procrastinate, am not very organized, and am not very good at housekeeping. My view on how I would change those things would be to just suck it up and do better, if I had to. And when it matters, that's what I do.

I don't mean to say that this is the only correct way to approach life but it is how I look at things.

samarthr1 5 days ago | parent [-]

I tol am unfortunately also introverted, prone to procrastination and seem quite unable to keep my house as spotless as I would like

Do you have any advice for overcoming my problem with atleast procrastination (i suspect that it is probably causing the other two issues).

SoftTalker 4 days ago | parent [-]

Suck it up and just do it.

righthand 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I do not agree. While there may be a flux of people who have therapists, the majority do not and that is why you hear about it on Youtube.

I do agree that younger people are trying to take more care of their mental health but I do not see healthy reasons for which they are chasing that improvement. For example the “pursuit of happyness” is indoctrinated and people think they always need to be happy. At the same time I think people are self-diagnosing which I do not include as “health care” as I meant it, but rather self care or even passive-hypochondria.