I don’t disagree with his points but can’t help but feel he’s over simplifying it. Not everyone has an opportunity to be “proactive” about it in the way he’s meaning.
… what a waste of time…
Easy to be “proactive” when you have no real demands on your time or real worries apart from what to do with an old S.S uniform he can’t get rid of. Pay a private cook and personal trainer and have the best therapist on call whenever you need them…
His idea of mental fitness while not incorrect shows an absolutely critical misunderstanding of the world and how most people live.
I was a support worker once – dealt with a kid called Rhys. He was sexually abused by his dad and put into care with his brother. His brother hanged himself and rhys found him. He was discharged from care at 18 with nowhere to go and ended up homeless where someone offered him a drug to take the pain away, which he took. He never meant to get addicted but it made him feel better. Rhys died at age 23 of an overdose in a tent alone.
Where should he have been proactive exactly?
I appreciate that may be an extreme example but this endless portrayal of mental health as a choice is a really damaging myth.
Where does the single mum with two jobs and kids who cant afford heating or to feed herself properly get time to be proactive about her mental health.
Fuck of harry. Fuck off.
Renaming PTSD to PTSI for injury is pathetic. You cant just change medical terms at will Harry… its literally not an injury. The one that should change if any is depression as its too common a word in normal use and actually does lead to misunderstanding of the condition.
This is one thing I can’t get behind. It’s seems Americans have a therapist for everything. Any hardship they need to go to an external source to figure it out for them.
Undoubtedly there will some instances where it’s needed but it seems that no matter the little thing it’s “go see a therapist” it’s bonkers
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Maybe, with all the best intentions, Harry should sort out his own problems before lecturing others why they do not sort out their problems.
Odd that people are glossing over the thrust of his argument – talking about getting mental health assistance is still taboo in the UK.
It’s fuck all to do with attitudes. People simply cannot access MH care no matter how hard they try. It just isn’t there. Insanely out of touch…
There isn’t any help on NHS my mother had a severe mental illness we couldn’t get her any help
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I don’t disagree with his points but can’t help but feel he’s over simplifying it. Not everyone has an opportunity to be “proactive” about it in the way he’s meaning.
… what a waste of time…
Easy to be “proactive” when you have no real demands on your time or real worries apart from what to do with an old S.S uniform he can’t get rid of. Pay a private cook and personal trainer and have the best therapist on call whenever you need them…
His idea of mental fitness while not incorrect shows an absolutely critical misunderstanding of the world and how most people live.
I was a support worker once – dealt with a kid called Rhys. He was sexually abused by his dad and put into care with his brother. His brother hanged himself and rhys found him. He was discharged from care at 18 with nowhere to go and ended up homeless where someone offered him a drug to take the pain away, which he took. He never meant to get addicted but it made him feel better. Rhys died at age 23 of an overdose in a tent alone.
Where should he have been proactive exactly?
I appreciate that may be an extreme example but this endless portrayal of mental health as a choice is a really damaging myth.
Where does the single mum with two jobs and kids who cant afford heating or to feed herself properly get time to be proactive about her mental health.
Fuck of harry. Fuck off.
Renaming PTSD to PTSI for injury is pathetic. You cant just change medical terms at will Harry… its literally not an injury. The one that should change if any is depression as its too common a word in normal use and actually does lead to misunderstanding of the condition.
This is one thing I can’t get behind. It’s seems Americans have a therapist for everything. Any hardship they need to go to an external source to figure it out for them.
Undoubtedly there will some instances where it’s needed but it seems that no matter the little thing it’s “go see a therapist” it’s bonkers
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Maybe, with all the best intentions, Harry should sort out his own problems before lecturing others why they do not sort out their problems.
Odd that people are glossing over the thrust of his argument – talking about getting mental health assistance is still taboo in the UK.
It’s fuck all to do with attitudes. People simply cannot access MH care no matter how hard they try. It just isn’t there. Insanely out of touch…
There isn’t any help on NHS my mother had a severe mental illness we couldn’t get her any help