Over time I've realized that the path to self-acceptance is facing the most horrible parts about yourself - to admit truths that would have made you flinch away. It requires coming to terms with [being any terrible thing], to embrace it, integrate it, and stop moving from fear.1/
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Unless MAYBE there's a strong sub-public sphere of socialization among groups that would be banned and shunned otherwise. I'd look to pre-revolutionary Iran, maybe present-day Kuwait for some inroads. China at present might be interesting, too. Not that I know anything.
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Perhaps the exaltation of the private sphere for sharing one's self openly, a paradoxically more-open private sphere might be safer overall. It'd be interesting to create an algorithm with social sorting mechanisms for people who respond to questionnaires in specific ways.
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The common game is to pretend that everything is just fine. Until it is obviously not, or...death.
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But they'll have lower diagnosed rates of anxiety and depression which is what matters for the stats!
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And high rates of undiagnosed mental issues
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Well said
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Some of us are such harsh critics of ourselves. “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.” -Walt Whitman
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