Kinder, die sich Sorgen machen, ist keine psychische Erkrankung

Bridget Philippson to make up some shit that circumvents actual medical diagnosis because the billionaires need as many serfs as possible.

How about making life less shit.for people? Wild idea, I know.

We opened the national discussion about mental health without any consideration of the impact of teaching young people to speak about it without clearly defining what constitutes a mental health condition. Every person under a certain age thinks they have a debilitating mental health issue that doesn’t allow them to function. They have absolutely 0 resilience when it comes to mucking in and riding through difficult periods.

To the same end, since COVID we’ve now got swathes of working age adults on long term sick due to ‚mental health‘ conditions that are undiagnosed. Its gotten a bit out of hand IMO

Of course lots of people have actual mental health conditions, but they are far more prevalent today than they should be and claimed by many people who, to me, are taking the piss a bit.

Edit: let me make it clear I’m not looking to call anyone out here, particularly those who have suffered or struggled and have had to seek support, I’m trying to say that the problem is systemic and putting forward my somewhat cynical view which I believe is grounded in some level of truth.

Good. This has already gotten way out of control and many people believe that they are trapped by conditions that they diagnosed themselves with. Passing this insanity on to children has probably always been inevitable if the parents think this acceptable, but this adoration of mental health issues has turned into a pandemic.

Sometimes there’s threads on Reddit where they describe a regular human condition being a sign of Autism/ADHD/Anxiety and all the comments are like “omg I knew it”

Rehearsing conversations in advance, temporary short term obsessions, struggling with eye contact, fidgeting, changing personality to match the situation, aversion to phone calls, public speaking/job interviews

Bridget Phillipson is an ignorant disaster as Minister. I’ve not seen one thing from her I don’t find morally repulsive.

How about she takes one second to actually try and understand why kids are struggling with mental health and the societal causes of it, before arrogantly deciding she already knows what’s best.

Im sorry but I just can’t with this government anymore. Hateful, know nothing, populists who should be nowhere near government.

I can’t wait for them to go. I urge people never to vote reform or Tory, but seriously, after this last year, I’ll never vote for Labour again either.

And no, I don’t care if you think im gonna let reform win. They’re winning anyway because youre party does not know how to rule.

You know, when I was finishing up in (quite a bad) state school and then going through Uni in the very early 2000’s:

I could see that if I got a profession, I’d probably have a pretty nice house compared to my parents.

I would likely be financially stable from my mid 20’s.

The backlash to misogyny of “girl power” and the widening partipation of women in the workplace suggested to a teenage me that maybe things were getting more equal, and perhaps we could do anything in the workplace.

The backlash to toxic “tough” male stereotypes was allowing boys to express themselves, whether they were into music or drama or nerdy or emo and not just sporty; whether they wanted to go into traditional male professions or, like a schoolmate, become a male midwife or a primary school teacher.

There were LGBT societies at university, when most of us could still remember Section 28, age-of-consent equality was on the way and it felt like one day anyone might be able to marry too.

Meeting potential partners when you were out with friends several times a week was easy.

Going on a night out was a handful of pounds.

Uni tuition was charged for, but it was very heavily subsidised.

Rent was manageable even if your parents were working class and you were the first in your family ever to go to Uni.

Apprenticeships and further education colleges for anyone who didn’t go to uni were easily accessible.

Part time jobs at (for the time) rates that allowed you to support yourself if you only had your student loan were very easy to come by.

Things could still be tough – BUT they appeared to be getting better.

You know what? I didn’t get the nice professional-grade house on a professional wage, as it became impossible before I got to home ownership.

 I didn’t become financially stable until my late 30’s, and that’s probably due to us not having kids. 

A lot of the rest of the stuff is either gone now due to the economy and housing market being trashed, or has been set back by social media expectations of masculinity/femininity, or dating apps, or right wing culture wars wanting to take away people’s rights or “make them” behave as assigned to them by a more rigid society. 

There are fewer opportunities, less support unless you come from a middle class family, fewer libraries or social clubs or decently paid part time jobs, fewer ways to climb up the ladder, and fewer safety nets to keep you steady as you attempt to climb (including easy access to basic medical and dental care!)

There’s just the opportunity to grind, with your salary getting lower in real terms, for less life in return than your parents had. 

I’m not sure that telling people that “feeling crap is unavoidable and normal” is going to fix this. I think they might need some hope for the future to help them through the crap times, like we had, even if it didn’t quite all turn out as we’d thought in the end.

Depends on the extent
There’s anxiety the emotion and then there’s anxiety the disorder

So the state says worrying is not a mental illness, so they can reduce having to support them.

But also the state creates so much chaos, uncertainty, unfairness and anxiety that causes people to worry like fuck.

Good, there’s a difference between feeling anxious and having anxiety

The sheer lack of empathy in this thread is horrendous. Just because all you folks older than 30/40 had to try and bury their head in the sand just to survive, doesn’t mean that’s a healthy way of dealing with things as if we’re all pathetic whiny winge bags.

It was YOUR generations that pulled the ladder up the housing ladder

YOUR generations that both took free university education from us AND pushed too many people to get a degree to the point that its easier to get a job without a degree because of all the competition right now

Its YOUR generation that put us into endless wars in Asia and the middle east, throwing money at the military industrial complex to interfere in sovereign foreign states when we could’ve been spending that on fixing our own problems in society

Don’t get me wrong, you all faced your struggles too and thats not to take away from that. But don’t be so pathetic as to treat us all as ungrateful scroungers who make things sound worse then they are.

Its not our fault your generations reppressed your emotions so much. Now we finally have the tools to talk about it and treat it more effectively, with more compassion and all you selfish folks can do is treat us like we’re pathetic and weak simply because we’re more vulnerable with eachother in a healthy way.

Edit: this is also such a click-baity headline by the daily Tory-graph. All it means is children will be taught (as they should be) that its normal to be worried or sad sometimes. The problem is when that doesn’t go away or keeps coming back in a way that impacts your ability to go about your daily life

I work with trauma, people seem to really think everything is trauma, I see distress and upset being described as trauma all the time.

Anxiety, worrying, stress and panic are all normal feelings. You need to feel those to develop your emotional regulation.

A lot of young people tell me they smoke cannabis to calm down. The human body doesn’t need cannabis to calm down, if you said you did to have a good time that would be far healthier than essentially stunting your own wellbeing.

As someone who has genuinely had a severe anxiety disorder since childhood, I don’t know how to feel about this. Worrying isn’t a mental health condition but anxiety is different, mundane things paralyse you with fear, you are on edge or terrified all the time, even doing ‘normal’ things.

My daughter and her friends all self diagnose as

“We are gay and have poor mental health”

But they all have boyfriends all the time and just hate getting out of bed.

I don’t know how you square this circle.

I personally believe that opening up the the conversation about mental health has been a good thing overall, but the TikTokification has come so quickly

>It’s normal and cool to be afraid most of the time actually