Mental Illnesses and society
Lately it has come to my attention that society has become so desensitized to the reality that is mental illness. When every commercial on TV seems to advertise the newest miracle drug...the cure to depression...how can people not treat mental illness like it is just a profitable fad? It seems that every teen is on some new form of experimental medication, making them walking zombies, minions to the Medical Corporations.
Now, people use terms like "bipolar" so loosely...not truly understanding the meaning behind the word. Teens use the term to label someone who may be moody that day...yet do they understand that bipolar is in fact a serious mental illness?
Furthermore, the term "emo" has been used to degrade people suffering from clinical depression that have fallen into the habit of harming themselves...some even dare to say it's just a fad and emos only do it for attention...yet, do these people understand what teens with clinical depression go through?
To older generations this new drugged up generation seems to just be a product of drug companies and the new media. According to my parents "these kids just need an ass kicking to set them straight"...And "back in their day kids were happy, none of this depression crap existed"... Well, maybe kids just didn't understand what depression was...surely there was suicide "in their day"...
Maybe my generation is just a product of the drug companies and new media...or maybe we're a step towards further understanding of mental illness... let's hope it's the latter
Now, people use terms like "bipolar" so loosely...not truly understanding the meaning behind the word. Teens use the term to label someone who may be moody that day...yet do they understand that bipolar is in fact a serious mental illness?
Furthermore, the term "emo" has been used to degrade people suffering from clinical depression that have fallen into the habit of harming themselves...some even dare to say it's just a fad and emos only do it for attention...yet, do these people understand what teens with clinical depression go through?
To older generations this new drugged up generation seems to just be a product of drug companies and the new media. According to my parents "these kids just need an ass kicking to set them straight"...And "back in their day kids were happy, none of this depression crap existed"... Well, maybe kids just didn't understand what depression was...surely there was suicide "in their day"...
Maybe my generation is just a product of the drug companies and new media...or maybe we're a step towards further understanding of mental illness... let's hope it's the latter
i'm bipolar...
and it kinda hurts when people just throw around the word bipolar like its nothing.
i've struggled so much throughout my life because i am bipolar, and they use it to describe a person who is moody? its so much more than that...so much more serious...
suburban.zombie, December 30th, 2008 at 02:15:35am
Parents and grandparents years ago didn't take any notice of mental illnesses such as depression and ADHD because they didn't think it was existed. Some people even now say it's made up by the devil etc.
This whle subject on antidepressants not working- people who are on the medication see this in newspapers and are like woah I'm not being helped, I'm going nuts because they said it's not helping. It creates a setback in recovery. Most of people who say they don't work have never been on them, there are thousands of different types of anti depressants. Some works for others and some dont.
schooldropout, December 29th, 2008 at 06:40:01am
I wish it was 1960.
Skippy., December 29th, 2008 at 02:05:32am
I can't tell you how much bad luck I've had with antidepressants... so many things went wrong.... I honestly think that medicine, such as antidepressants, doesn't actually help. It's the talking through the pain and suffering, actually taking the time to figure out what's wrong mentally and taking the steps to become yourself again, rather than relying on some medication that, just like you said, "is some kind of
miracle drug"!
I do agree with what you said about the terms. It's inappropriate and disgusting as far as I'm concerned..
Good Blog!
Barney Stinson, December 28th, 2008 at 10:59:55pm
....I stopped taking my adhd meds, cause I felt like not myself when I was on them :file:
captain america, December 28th, 2008 at 10:50:39pm