The mental illness epidemic - Why is everyone losing their minds?

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This is just a wacky theory, and I may be full of shit (probably am!), so take it with a huge grain of salt.

Over the last fifty-seventy years or so (I think) we've had a huge population surge all over the world. Maybe the rate of mental illness hasn't changed, it's just more noticeable because now we have seven billion fucking people living cheek-to-cheek. If 1 in 100 people is mentally ill (pulling numbers out of my ass), and the population of a city goes from 5 million to 6 million, that's a whole lot "more" mentally ill people on the streets, but the same ratio. We just notice them more, because there's more people in one area.

With an increased focus on diagnosis and lessening of stigma people are more open about their mental illnesses, which is a good thing overall, because there really is nothing shameful about having a brain that doesn't function properly - in much the same way that there's nothing shameful about having a heart condition. It just IS.

Maybe the suicides are natures way of fixing the overpopulation problem. It's brutal, but nature is not kind.
 
This is an opinion I formed after seeing that manbaby on the home page:

I think people also need to stop viewing serious mental cases as just something acceptable. I went onto that video and saw many comments saying things like "He's not hurting anyone, so why should anyone care?" Not only are people like him hurting themselves for their self-destructive actions, but they bring down the people forced to spend their resources to take care of him. Being 'neuroatypical' is not a good thing and it never will be.

One solution is to actually understand that these people have issues, and that they have diseases. And with any diseased individual, we treat them, not sympathise, glorify, or placate them.

Or we could just kill them.
 
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This is an opinion I formed after seeing that manbaby on the home page:

I think people also need to stop viewing serious mental cases as just something acceptable. I went onto that video and saw many comments saying things like "He's not hurting anyone, so why should anyone care?" Not only are people like him hurting themselves for their self-destructive actions, but they bring down the people forced to spend their resources to take care of him. Being 'neuroatypical' is not a good thing and it never will be.

One solution is to actually understand that these people have issues, and that they have diseases. And with any diseased individual, we treat them, not sympathise, glorify, or placate them.

Or we could just kill them.
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I view people like the man-baby as the pinnacle of human development. We as a culture have become so peaceful and prosperous that you can choose to spend your free time being a disgusting obese infant and nobody cares. Think about it, if a country is very technologically advanced, it's possible to produce more and more stuff while using less and less human labor. In the future there simply are not going to be meaningful roles for a lot of people in society, especially ones who aren't very smart. I think people like our man-baby grew up being told they could be anything they wanted to be, and then they freaked the fuck out and regressed to childhood because they had no idea what to do or how they were gonna fit into the world around them. It's all good though, we don't need shit-for-genes crayon eaters like this anyway. The beauty of it is these people won't even have to be actively culled, in fact they will do the job themselves with opioids and high fructose corn syrup and moral relativism.

"We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise, we laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst, we castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful."
-C.S. Lewis
 
Ratko_Falco dijo:
Shut down of mental care hospitals during the 80's.
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if I may , Imho it has much to do with individualism in America, ppl are too lonely n they replace the peace of mind which one derives from family n relationship with musings of their wandering mind.
other than that American atheist culture promotes lot of nihilism (fuck the world mate , all I care about Is dough n pussy , one life is all I have ) , it sounds good on paper but deep down it destroys the incentive of constructive outlook in life
 
ToroidalBoat dijo:
According to certain people, there's no mental illness. Just "neurodiversity."

The term didn't exist until the 1990s and probably gained popularity when identity politics did.
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Just sounds like a dumb term to me.

EDIT: Really, they're trying to excuse what is obviously an abnormality that shouldn't be encouraged.
 
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swiv dijo:
I view people like the man-baby as the pinnacle of human development. We as a culture have become so peaceful and prosperous that you can choose to spend your free time being a disgusting obese infant and nobody cares. Think about it, if a country is very technologically advanced, it's possible to produce more and more stuff while using less and less human labor. In the future there simply are not going to be meaningful roles for a lot of people in society, especially ones who aren't very smart. I think people like our man-baby grew up being told they could be anything they wanted to be, and then they freaked the fuck out and regressed to childhood because they had no idea what to do or how they were gonna fit into the world around them. It's all good though, we don't need shit-for-genes crayon eaters like this anyway. The beauty of it is these people won't even have to be actively culled, in fact they will do the job themselves with opioids and high fructose corn syrup and moral relativism.

"We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise, we laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst, we castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful."
-C.S. Lewis
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Except you're wrong. It has been proven time and time again that mentally ill and crazy people HAVE reproduced. And those genes are still in their family members like brothers and sisters, even if they dont present themselves in said family members.

Eventually down the line when his family keeps spreading their genes we will have people like man-baby be born again. Will he reproduce? Extremely unlikely, but dont kid yourself into thinking these people will die out from natural selection, that doesn't happen in modern society anymore.
 
It's hard to say. It might be an adverse effect from elements of the modern world, but it could also partly be that methods and knowledge of such things are more developed, these days. I know I inherited many of my own issues, but I don't know if they're all inherited.

For me, personally, being mentally ill (and for years having to go without treatment) has given me enough problems to overcome that I've been left with a strong willpower, and so an overall good attitude. I've come back from being down and out enough that I've learned how to be competent and persistent, and I've learned that mental illness is a problem to be overcome, not an excuse to be inefficient.
 
People don't want to hear it, but it's diminishing Christian values. People lead pointless, hedonistic lives and society encourages narcissistic behavior. Materialism and our newfound hatred of reality (see: trannies) is a manifestation of this.

This is all exacerbated by the Internet, technology, hyper-partisan politics (fuck the left tho), and all sorts of other shit.

I bet you fucking anything the Amish are happier than the average retard glued to his iPhone tweeting his hatred about orange man bad, sipping his faggy soy latte.
 
I think its a couple of things:

1. The lack of struggle gives life less meaning. The west has been enjoying almost unprecedented levels of "good times" and as a result people have less struggle. The lack of struggle gives them less to define themselves through, and they end up struggling with that lack of identity having been established in a meaningful way. This results in them seeking a way to define themselves, hence why people collect labels like pokemon cards, but those identities are empty and it is going to end in cognitive dissonance in people. This is going to create what we call mental illness, a lot of what we see in modern times is not akin to normal illnesses like Bipolar Disorder or even Schizophrenia but rather a kind of malady that gets labeled "depression" or fit with the term closest to it but it normally doesn't meet the traditional definitions which is further why they've shifted so much in the last 10 years.

2. As the internet became more prevalent it became very easy to find people "like you" who believe the same things, or get off to the same things, that you do. In the past, if you had a weird fetish people knew it was weird and they kept it hidden or even just buried it. The ones who didn't got ostracized. Now its possible to find a group for borderline anything and it makes people feel as though that is normal and that its exclusion is not right and they shouldn't have to change. It isn't just fetishes, though. There are forums and subreddits and shit for people dealing with "gang stalking" which I genuinely don't believe exists. Any malady someone has they can find a group telling them its true and anyone denying it or offering them meds is wrong.
 
I'll take my dumb stickers and not care: I firmly believe that genetic damage from people having babies in middle age, has played a heavy hand in it. Many of today's first-time parents could be grandparents by now. You can't convince me that's harmless. As usual it's delusional boomers who have brought us to this point.
 
hot take but the mental health industry is creating a mental health epidemic. There's an insane ammount of overdiagnosis, specially in the USA but in western countries in general, it feel like it takes very little to be put on pills. You could probably just get whatever diagnosis you want playing the system if you are so inclined and certain kinds of retards do.

If little Timmy is a bit of a dweeb he will surely get something, anything diagnosed. He will start on the spiral of codependence on therapy and pills at a very young age and will probably stay there forever, is gonna be made much worse if he is on Neetbux and woke ideology as there is a real incentive to have a mental illness diagnosed, free money and free asspats.

And i've seen this constantly with millenials who have been on this ctcle since the 90s when it was a huge fad to diagnose everyone with autism or adhd, and is even worse with zoomers, even the ones who aren't on the mental health threadmill have huge FOMO and feel like they are missing out and should look for a diagnosis because is so commonplace to mention that shit now online, is as much as a social contagion as pronouns and troonism.

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I sort of feel like between when this thread was made back in 2018 and now the idea of "mental health" has almost become pasé, if it wasn't already back then.

When like 40% of the population is "ill", that isn't illness anymore.

There's little recognition of humans living in an incredibly unnatural environment where it's difficult to meet one's physical/mental needs.
If someone is having issues paying attention for example, the answer they're given isn't "Oh, right, that's because boring shit is fucking boring and you just have a more active mind than average. Here's some adderall if you need it, it'll help you cope better", it's that you have a disorder.
The system is right, dissatisfaction and failure to integrate is wrong, you're wrong.

It's extremely status quo friendly, and it lends itself very well to identity politics because it promotes the idea that certain people's experiences are fundamentally different from some fucking arbitrary conception of what's "normal".

It's completely absurd, aside from more serious psychotic disorders most "mental illness" is nonsense, especially since half the time when people are neurotic/depressed it's because of a physical sickness response to shit like chronic cold stress, in large part because aside from poor diet/sleep/sedentary lifestyle there's no sense of social security anymore and we live on the brink of neo-feudalism.

There is no mental health crisis. There's only a societal crisis and a wholly natural psychological response to it.
You aren't wrong or sick for being unhappy and anxious, it's just a question of how you can address it.
 
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