I'm sorry for your loss. It inspires adding that another cultish aspect of this ideology is a fetishizing of depression and other distresses that are common among this age cohort. And rather than encourage young people to see that they can and will get past it, we're obligated to tell them that the condition is static and requires medica…
I'm sorry for your loss. It inspires adding that another cultish aspect of this ideology is a fetishizing of depression and other distresses that are common among this age cohort. And rather than encourage young people to see that they can and will get past it, we're obligated to tell them that the condition is static and requires medicalizing. Case in point, years ago a student of mine witnessed another student jump to her death. Naturally my student was deeply disturbed by that. Her (Korean) family told her not to take anti-depressants, that in time, she would get over the upset. The student as what I thought and I said: Listen to your parents. Wouldn't you know the director of the department called to see what (awful?) thing I had told the student! And sure enough they got her into the health department to sign her up for anti-depressants. Anyway, my point is that psychological distress is being promoted as a permanent condition -- and a status condition as it can get you out of a class you don't want to take, etc. This goes hand in hand with the assertion that suicide is the natural progression if a "trans" person can't transition. There is nothing worse than encouraging young people -- already impaired by short-sightedness -- to believe that there's no satisfaction ahead. I still can't wrap my brain around getting in trouble for encouraging a student to believe that distress is a temporary condition.
I'm sorry for your loss. It inspires adding that another cultish aspect of this ideology is a fetishizing of depression and other distresses that are common among this age cohort. And rather than encourage young people to see that they can and will get past it, we're obligated to tell them that the condition is static and requires medicalizing. Case in point, years ago a student of mine witnessed another student jump to her death. Naturally my student was deeply disturbed by that. Her (Korean) family told her not to take anti-depressants, that in time, she would get over the upset. The student as what I thought and I said: Listen to your parents. Wouldn't you know the director of the department called to see what (awful?) thing I had told the student! And sure enough they got her into the health department to sign her up for anti-depressants. Anyway, my point is that psychological distress is being promoted as a permanent condition -- and a status condition as it can get you out of a class you don't want to take, etc. This goes hand in hand with the assertion that suicide is the natural progression if a "trans" person can't transition. There is nothing worse than encouraging young people -- already impaired by short-sightedness -- to believe that there's no satisfaction ahead. I still can't wrap my brain around getting in trouble for encouraging a student to believe that distress is a temporary condition.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Yes! You're so right! Mental illness is practically celebrated now. It is all so absurd.