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Originally Posted by TheDragon
Yay! More politically correct thingies online! Ugh...
Let's be fair, a lot of mental health issues that people have ARE emotional problems. People simply don't want to admit that they have an issue that they need to address, and perhaps grow and mature. "It's an illness just like any other illness" suggests there's a lack of personal responsibility. Why does calling it an emotional problem invalidate one's experiences? Because we're not immediately hopping on the sympathy train?
Until people are realistic about mental health, they can go about it any way but will fail to get rid of the stigma.
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I think that assumption gets made about a lot of people where that is not the case, hence why people get offended over it. For instance the mental problems I have are not an issue of needing to grow and mature it's quite a bit more serious than that. The idea that one is to blame for their mental problems and/or severity irritates me, sure personal responsibility is important but can be taken too far.
Everyone probably has room to grow and mature, but mental illness is not really a case of not trying hard enough to do so.