What I mean is that what I want to tell is that we need to give these issues some weight and we can't just throw around these words not knowing what they actually mean and their impact on people. So this is my point of view and some points people had yesterday. But do you think that every second person has a mental health issue or people are throwing these words around too lightly? What do you think, like our mental health issues to common these days or not
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:30
I'm so glad you asked this question. But first, thank you for your thinking. The 12345, your points are very thoughtful and made me pause. So thank you. But here's my thinking about out. I'm happy when someone just expresses how they're feeling, period, whether they name it or pathologize. It is secondary to the fact that somebody is comfortable enough with somebody else to say, oh, my God, I'm so depressed. I'm so anxious
Koena
@kmukherjee · 1:04
And we know, I guess, to some extent, what it means we can use it in our day to day conversations, and it's not looked down upon. But on the other hand, I feel like sometimes people use it way too much, and then it loses its weight or its distinction. And if someone says I'm depressed, maybe someone can take it as a joke. It launches quite into a conversation yesterday. So it's something I wanted to know from other people on this app
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Sohini Joarder
@Rover_Phoenix · 1:22
It's actually made a lighthearted, which is actually shifting the focus from how really dangerous mental health issues can be. So, yeah, due to this exaggeration or really downgrading mental health issues, people are really finding it hard to believe that people are actually suffering from such issues. And that's why even being so common these days, people are finding hard to believe. Oh, it's like a joke to everybody
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 2:20
And I guess that leads me to perhaps it's better to talk about it, to talk about it openly, to have it discussed openly, because then you're not dealing with all the other health issues that potentially crop up when you're unable to do so. And perhaps it is just different coping mechanisms that are getting open today and the types of mental health issues that we hear about today. I'm no different from what people experienced a few decades ago