Hello, my post got edited and I was little nervous, I said you this or you that, I overreacted and I'm so very sorry about that. General Q&A, this place is for a quick answer, it says in the subtitle of this sub-forum, and I see this is exactly the problem for discussable matters such as anxiety.

America, (if you live there or not, that I don't know) is a Xanax nation now and people been talking about it. And I hear that TV ads are allowed for psych medications, America I know loves discussion and it is the foundation of democracy, which splits the country right in the middle. This big pharma led, anything for profit nation may not have started the discussion as much as we'd like to think, or at least it looks to me that's not a mainstream popular discussion topic that anybody would like to talk about.

Taboo is a subject of cultural prohibition, it is too sacred or too accursed, and pharmaceutical companies with big pockets and their dishonest marketing strategies are affecting people's morality in the society, the very awareness of mental health issues are tainted by the solutions the industry offers and the customers who may not actually need the quick relief can easily pick the route of pop-the-pill-'n-go way of living, it makes financial sense in most people's mind.

I'm not stating my opinions individually to the previous posters here but I see words like, stigmas, misinformations, ignorances, and uncomfortable feelings. I myself can't draw the line that separates between what's taboo and what's not taboo to discuss. I think it's about the behaviors around the topic of discussion/talks, and the OP brought about 'anxiety', everybody has that. And each and every culture reacts to it in a certain way, we generalize the reactions and decide if it's a taboo or not.

worrist, I may be wrong but it just feels slightly odd to me to call a discussion that is in your words, 'mental health duscussion' a taboo. Most discussion, to help progress the society needs to be welcomed, I hope you can agree with this. In the same vein, we use words like 'disorders, illness, or a disease'. It's all euphemisms that's still on a treadmill trying to burn the calories, I'm not mentally ill, let's make this be official and I'd call myself the illest zaniest person whose mental faculty could possibly be made outta titunium and as strong as a Ukranian soldier. All the kidding aside, a discussion can be held or just pops up if the settings were right, I hope you keep working at it.

Anyhow, the world is crazier than fiction, why should I trust anyone's information so readily? Nothing works your way unless the change happens within, on both the addresser and the addressee while we discuss matters with people, the qualifications and quantifications of the real applicable skills to be an educator matters a huge deal, it's almost a disadvantage for someone to be still suffering from mental health issues, because that makes the person sound biased, too personal or desperate or whatever. On the side note, I was watching this kid's video who came to the US as an immigrant when he was small lately, it was about a diagnosable mental issue and he overcame it. I think the awareness and proper informations needs to come out like this.

So how does it work anyways? 'Letting it go', I was thinking about this phrase last night, we can do this on our past, present and our future thoughts. Talking is all about bridging the gap and it ain't easy for me. Even a Stanford University lectures on youtube won't be educational if that's not what I'm interested in, I don't know, let's say anything about medical knowledge, and say someone knows something that I don't know. A little piece of information like form NPR that says upto one in five students living in the US shows the sign of mental disorder. It is simply unbelievable, and some of us hears about over-prescribing of pain killers and what not, and psychiatry is supposed to be there to help without doing no harm, this just makes me question the ethics and the morality in all the people.

The mass production and/or this manufacturing of Mental Illnesses on the populations which I think don't need the kind of help from is crazy. The public and big medical associations agrees with it, FDA's bought, where do you draw the lines between you yourself and social acceptabilities of your demands or educations that you speak of? A lot of talk we do in our every day life are based on belief and we don't get to read other people's minds, if I were to fear anything, that'd be stupidity that could hurt me and others.

Going to an anime convention with an AK on your shoulder because the gun convention was held in the next building. That's awkwardness, isn't it? You assume others are uncomfortable, and even someone were to admit that, if you take the feelings before anything that makes things go forward smoothly, then I'd conclude that the comfort, weren't there in the first place. Some may prefer a bottle of southern comfort but the safe bet would be to bring a basket of muffins or something. Closeness of a relationship, breaking the ice, I'm not seeing what everybody's talking about here.

If this were taboo, I would've found it on National Geographic Channel.

ETA: Crossing my fingers that I don't become the enemy of the state! Oh, well, does anyone really call you a fake, a lier? Some may act like it, show you an attitude, if one has a handicap, it takes extra energy and skills to cover that up. Ignorant folks could be faking it while dealing with every day anxiety with alcohol, you don't know the whole truth. Ordinary folks too have these judg-mentalness radar and it is an old technology, so we'd better maintain it in working order at all times, I ask myself when did it become okay to talk about our feelings, family issues? What people buy into shapes the world, these prepackaged one-size-fits-all quackery is not a true medicine until the day we see all the psych practitioners are of decent qualities.