It disappoints me that people are more quickly drawn to the concept of “Normalizing Mental Illness” as being a problem instead of “Normalizing a severe lack of mental health resources.”
Like recently I have been seeing a lot of posts about how people should never express suicidal ideation openly, typically with this sort of attitude that anyone who is really feeling so badly would just go to a doctor / therapist / etc,
But that fundamentally is not the situation. Particularly when mental healthcare often involves a significant amount of money, or the threat of involuntary confinement and further traumatization of the individual.
Essentially, complaining that people are “Normalizing mental illness” when they acknowledge their suffering is a form of victim blaming, when the real underlying problem is a society which produces mass-trauma and fails to create mental health resources beyond the most absolutely basic “Lets try mindfulness!” crap.`
