When we treat emotions like pathologies, we pave the way for exploitation. Now, normal states of being are problems that need to be eradicated. You need more therapy, more plant medicine, more retreats, more cleanses. Everything in your life becomes a diagnoses. But not all of our exes can be sociopaths, not all of our mothers can be have... See more

This also fits with what I know of depression. When I've been depressed in the past, I didn't feel sad, hopeless or worthless, the way some people describe, I just didn't enjoy anything or care about anything. (I now know the term for that is "anhedonia".)

This NYT piece is an endless stream of bangers. I swear, one of the more destructive recent cultural trends has been the combined push to frame all distress or discomfort as mental illness, and then to encourage people to form their identity around being “mentally ill.” https://t.co/UW70inBXUL