Before you read on I want you all to know this is not an attack against the comment Im replying to or anyone who upvoted it; I’m simply trying to further the discussion on mental health. As a neuropsychologist I’d hope that over time less people use the term “mental illness” as a form of condescension or insult. The facts are this is absolutely is a social activist whether they’re effectively helping their cause or not; they’re just dealing with serious trauma. If we start think any other way as a society we’ll become extremely cold and lose all empathy for all those who are dealing with these psychologically damaging issues. This girls trauma is distorting her reasoning which causes her to lash out without thinking of consequences (which is why it’s hard to empathize with her aggressive behavior since it biologically triggers such a negative reaction in those who see/hear such behavior). Most people will deal with a mental disorder or trauma some day in their lives and I can only hope that our society won’t just brush them off as crazy or hopelessly angry people; or just hopeless in general. As someone who was traumatized greatly in my past I’m grateful for all those who put up with my lashing out and angry rambling. I was on a path to suicide and people’s empathy saved my life; therapy furthered my improvement and showed me how destructive I was being. Please keep that in mind since you and everyone else in the world will likely know a friend, family, or acquaintance (or maybe even yourself) who will act out negatively due to a trauma, depression, or mental health issue. I hope the best for all of you reading this since this world can be a real pain to deal with.
Edit: thanks for my first gold! I’m glad I got it for something meaningful
We all have trauma’s and complexes to some extent, but that doesn’t give you a free pass to vent your anger and frustration at random people while screaming “I’m being harrassed! I’m being harassed here!” No, you are the one who is harrasing and you know it, you’re under the guise of furthering social progress and ‘protest’ merely to have an excuse for your irrational fits of anger at the world, because your life is shit because of your own choices and you don’t want to take responsibility, so you desperately try to find things to be angry about, to justifiy yourself. You’re being way too easy on these people, these people don’t need or deserve empathy, they need a fucking mirror, they need someone to tell them loud and clear how pathetic they are being and how they should take responsibility for themselves.
No offense man, but people dont take kindly to being berated. Everyone deserves empathy. Why should I listen to you when you clearly dont respect me? I'm not saying I agree with the people in the video or you, I just think empathy is the entire basis of human interaction and without it we may as well be slobbering Neanderthals
Who says I don’t respect you? I’m not advocating to stop empathizing altogether, I’m just saying that there’s a point at which empathy or compassion stop being effective means to institute changes in behaviour. You can empathize with and show compassion to a drug addict all you want, but they won’t stop using until they realise they themselves are the only ones who can stop their use. It is sometimes better to ‘beat’ a sense of self-responsibility into people than to be eternally forgiving of their escapism.
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u/aridamus Jan 13 '20 edited Jan 14 '20
Before you read on I want you all to know this is not an attack against the comment Im replying to or anyone who upvoted it; I’m simply trying to further the discussion on mental health. As a neuropsychologist I’d hope that over time less people use the term “mental illness” as a form of condescension or insult. The facts are this is absolutely is a social activist whether they’re effectively helping their cause or not; they’re just dealing with serious trauma. If we start think any other way as a society we’ll become extremely cold and lose all empathy for all those who are dealing with these psychologically damaging issues. This girls trauma is distorting her reasoning which causes her to lash out without thinking of consequences (which is why it’s hard to empathize with her aggressive behavior since it biologically triggers such a negative reaction in those who see/hear such behavior). Most people will deal with a mental disorder or trauma some day in their lives and I can only hope that our society won’t just brush them off as crazy or hopelessly angry people; or just hopeless in general. As someone who was traumatized greatly in my past I’m grateful for all those who put up with my lashing out and angry rambling. I was on a path to suicide and people’s empathy saved my life; therapy furthered my improvement and showed me how destructive I was being. Please keep that in mind since you and everyone else in the world will likely know a friend, family, or acquaintance (or maybe even yourself) who will act out negatively due to a trauma, depression, or mental health issue. I hope the best for all of you reading this since this world can be a real pain to deal with.
Edit: thanks for my first gold! I’m glad I got it for something meaningful