The
weekly article “I would always rather be abnormal than holistic:
nine micro-essays” by Shana Bulhan Haydock discusses about author’s opinion about
how we treat mental health problem in modern society. The author states that it is inappropriate to treat
every individual’s mental health problem as the same issue. And the idea that
those problems are just normal human spectrum of emotions and could eventually be
cured by pathologizing approaches is what industry want us to believe but not what
we should believe. In nowadays society, we treasure and respect individualism,
it is a stupid idea to label or conform everyone to a same standard. As the scholars
attempt to categorize people in order to well govern society, it is the way to
deny human right. My parents’ generation does not understand why mental health
problem is an issue nowadays. They always told that they’ve also experienced similar
problems when they were young and refuse to admit that it is same as physical health
issue.
Q:
why people refuse to accept that mental health is an issue?
Reference:
Haydock,
S. "fucked up." In I would always rather be abnormal than
holistic: Nine micro-essays. (45-53). DSM: Asian American edition.
Photo:
https://www.hopetocope.com/depression-the-mystery-of-motivation/
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