Wednesday 24 April 2024

Celebrating Mental Illness -- the new national hobby

How we celebrate mental illness these days! It is itself an "obsession". It seems if you haven't got a mental illness, there's something wrong with you. There are plenty to choose from, so take your pick. There's social anxiety, cellphone addiction, gender dysphoria, PTSD, ADHD, eating disorders, hoarding disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder ... If you can't demonstrate any of these, you're too orderly. 

There are legions of magazines, websites, therapists and advertisers lining up to help us with our vast array of emotional illnesses, and an ever-ballooning diagnostic industry for them -- they  even make special National "Days" and Provincial Days for all the different varieties. It's big business for some, and big attention-getting for social commentators. 

If you feel it's not for you, seek therapy! (Don't you even have FOMO?)

You should be careful, for you may be bullied and shamed for having too much mental health and resilience. Maybe you should at least try some precautionary self-therapy? Try over-eating, so as to feel a little decently worse about yourself; nobody's allowed to shame anyone for getting fat.


 


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