The Stigma of Mental Illness: Is it All in Your Head?
All too often, mental issues are dismissed with some form of the expression, “it’s all in your head.” To which we say, duh. Mental illness is very often in your head, as the brain is the primary organ impacted in many, many varieties of mental illness. Today we talk about the stigma surrounding mental illness, how the brain and body work together, and ideas for how we can think about these issues in a more constructive way.
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Sounds balanced, reasonable, practical.
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I have personally been witness to several very recent, including this mention of mental health, changes in institutional understanding and behavior towards mental health not in related healthcare fields. I know this may seem like confirmation bias or proximity bias but it feels like something is shifting culturally. I hope I'm right. I hope the approaches you mention will take us in a new direction of care and understanding. For if we take away the brain is there a mind?
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“Of course it’s all in your head, harry. But why should that make it any less real?”
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🎯I am so tired of hearing “it’s a chemical imbalance “
I just started a new medication for anxiety and depression and casually mentioned it at work since coming on and off these medications have a few annoying symptoms (mostly nausea for me) but it shocked me when a couple people told me "I didn't need that crap" telling me it's no good for you, try meditation. I countered with I think I'll take advice from my doctor not you, not unkindly. and they came back with the doctors are the ones making money off this.
I was genuinly baffled. I'm not unawear of the conspiracy of doctors being pushed into overprescribing medications for profits, a serious issue no doubt. but to believe all anitdepresents are just pushed on people for monay and don't help at all? I worry about people who've gotten that far down teh rabbit hole. Meications work for some and not others (which is probably where the controversies in their effectiveness comes from) but I think it's pretty ignorant to say they're all crap.
I suppose all I'm really saying is, I wish people would be more open minded in understanding mental illness and how complicated it is to treat.
I thought I had depression but after fixing my diet, sleep and excercise I realize our brains are also physical constructs. Meaning there is no mental component it is all physical we just think there is a mental component
Don't use the term "Gaslight." Tell people you are here to help them.
Brain tumors are all in your head, at least you hope they haven't metastasized.
I wish we'd go back to using Mental Illness for disorders and Mental Health for, well, healthy psychological states.
I expect that there are 10 or more different conditions which get classified as depression, hence the hit and miss treatments. It seems naive to me also to assume they are all malfunctions, and that depression isn't sometimes normal healthy brain function and emotional responses to dysfunctional life situations that no one wants to acknowledge because they're near impossible to remedy.
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Well yeah, that's because heart attacks and other phsycial ailments have medical bases to them, you can report on physical structural changes and gain a accurate and repeatable/reliable diagnoses… It's the very reason why saying "Would you tell a patient not to take their insulin if they had a insulin sensitivity issue"? Doesn't hope up when it comes to mental health and medications, its because psychiatry is rooted in pseudoscience especially the DSM-1 to its latest DSM-5 published in 2013 (There's a new one being drawn up). I hate that we're dismissing this much needed discussion as "Stigma related" to avoid talking about it, surprise… The DSM manual is 100% made up, do you know how these diagnoses make it into the these manuals? Anyone? They took a bunch of psychologists and psychiatrists, sat them in a room. And they just voted a diagnoses in… Yeah, think about that for a second they voted these diagnoses in. Psychiatry is the only field in the world where where the one area/organ which is involved (The brain) doesn't even get examples, there's no blood work, there's no imagining, electro impulse testing or anything of the sort, people are being diagnosed within the first 7 minutes on average by doing a check list, yeah… Psychology and psychiatry is the only field where you can go to 5 different professionals and get different diagnoses. So let's leave the comparison of actual conditions alone, one is grounded and backed by science while the other (Mental health) is largely constructed from epidemiological and observational reports which are useless because you can diagnose accurately lol its guess work. You are diagnosed to be coded and billed, that's it… These medications arent meant to help you lol they're meant to keep you sick (they break down your neurotransmitters from producing either Dopamine, Serotonin and or GabaA for benzos the longer you stay on these drugs). Why do you think so many people are coming out against psychology? Especially those who were psychiatry victims, lied too about. Chemical imabalnce meanwhile these drugs cause a actual chemical imabalnce lol.
Now let's stop acting like this is one surface leveled discussion, there's many factors involved. Are mental health issues real? Of course no one is denying it… But is currently psychology and psychiatry good indicators and measurements of these mental health complexes? Fuck no not even in the area of being helping especially psychiatry which doesn't more harm then any other field of medicine but that's bound to happen when your field is entirely guess work. Sinplying saying that people are stigmatizing a very serious discussion by comparing its field of research if any to actual medically provided conclusions is the dumbest position ever. Psychology and psychiatry are complete pseudo and Anti science on every bases of the word its disgusting how many people were tricked. The only way we move forward to helping people mental health is if you push past this stigma label which is non sense, and have honest discussion most aren't ready for especially if you are unfortunately already diagnosed and taking a antidepressant which I'd, antidepressants, SSRIs, SNRI, Antipsychotics and benzodiazepines are the most harmful toxins we've created.
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“Mental illness” is such a misleading, dishonest term for a video that attempts to be buddy-buddy with the viewer. Likening long periods of sadness and lowered mood to a sickness is just plain inaccurate and irresponsible.
Dose anyone who has delt with all the things he was talking about cause you tell he never has smh how someone treat something they never had to deal with lmao what a joke
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They're called FEELINGS…. just because you're sad at the moment doesn't mean you're "depressed"… Sadly, everyone wants to be a victim or afflicted with some ailment.
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Great video. An excellent illustration of why using that phrase as a dismissal of mental health issues is not a good reaction.
It is all in your head, everybody seems to be jumping on this Mental Health bandwagon and some are using it to get sympathy, or get away with things like not working or claiming money??????? No wonder today's society is crumbling as everyone appears to have some form of mental disability? The fact is that Big Pharmaceutical Companies are making themselves rich out of us all again, they want people to have as many health problems as they can, as it means selling more & more pills!!!! More and More Money!!
When your family are the biggest stigma carrying
Well at least it’s not the 1800’s. I mean clearly there’s a stigma in our head cuz we grew up in harsher society back then. Well I’d wish they put the same thought to mentally disabled people? Wait, isn’t that supposedly considered a mental health status? They actually don’t care about that? There’s also mentally disabled people in Africa who are starving.
You ever think depression comes from external stimulus. Psychiatry is fraud.
The thing is, the business of psychiatry is to not care about the patients' health and keep treating them for problems they dont have! When you have some health problems you find out how irresponsible and cold hearted these professionals are and they use guards to chase hurting people out of the hospital, too!
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The stigma? The stigma begins with the psychiatrists themselves. They're the ones who do the stigmatizing.
40 years mentally ill I got stigma thousands of time
My ex did this to me at 16 he was spoon fed and went to a private school he had everything handed to him. Daniel.s He is now one of those people on instagram who says he supports peoples lives! It infuriates me, the absolute ignorance and hypocrisy! How much pain it caused me back then. To feel so invalidated by someone who claimed to love me. And he’s still ignorant today. Promoting himself as if he helps peoples lives! Whilst his sister is also depressed. And he ignores her like he did me and says it’s all in your head.
Be Careful of these Instagram influences they’re all fake as shit.
Lessen over time?! There is still stigma
I honestly get pissed when I hear that it’s all in my head. Someone seeking help probably shouldn’t hear that. We are aware it’s in our head. We are simply struggling to get help. Treading water and close to drowning. It’s overwhelming
It is all in your head, literally and figuratively.
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You mean like cancer is just complaining, you mean like that
Mental illness is a physical illness affecting the brain. You need to say that as well !!!
If you can place in your mind there is a stigma to mental health issues you , you can place it in other minds.