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It's no secret that in recent times people in the West have been going completely crazy but a parallel, less discussed phenomenon that's going on at the same time, IMO, is the pathologizing of absolutely every aspect of the human experience.
There's the well documented, institutional side of this - any boy whose slightly rambunctious being diagnosed with ADHD, everyone whose feeling a little melancholy being put on SSRIs - but I think the subcultural, informal aspect of this is equally harmful.
I don't refer exclusively or even primarily to the trend of Libz adopting self-diagnosis and using mental illness as an identity though that's one part of it. What we increasingly see is people adopting subcultures as a form of pathology in their own right.
No, you're not an "incel" or a "schizopoaster" or "post-irony" or "NazBol" or "post-Left" or any of these other largely fictional, hyperreal memeplexes. You're not a bundle of desensitised memes.
You are you.
You're just a person going through shit day to day.
You are you.
You're just a person going through shit day to day.
This is important to keep in mind because a person whose just going through their shit day to day can actually *grapple* with day to day stuff... but once you're a [Insert Meme Category Here] you're suddenly trying to fight what amounts to a cosmological force
It's very easy for someone to take better care of themselves and become more confident. It can be broken down into very easy, bite-sized steps. It's much more difficult for someone to "stop being an incel."
-because what does it even mean?
Self-defeating mentality.
-because what does it even mean?
Self-defeating mentality.
While many of the issues people face today are born of their desperate - and normal - desire to be part of something greater you'll find that - counterintuitively - you will be able to overcome the pain that causes by focusing on the smaller, actionable things in life.
So yeah, don't embrace these pre-packaged categories of things you empathize with - whether it be incel, TERF, schziopoaster or whatever else - as a form of place to belong to. It's bad for you. It convinces you more is wrong with you than actually is.
Deal with you.
Deal with you.
