I appreciate the effort shown

SPOT ON, it’s not a “mental health epidemic”, people are having normal difficult feelings!!! Difficult feelings are not a health condition!https://twitter.com/RandyNesse/status/1263176750684499969 …

Caregivers who already had MH conditions are def experiencing big impairments in their functioning,ie. hitting their kids more. Absolutely I perceive the changes to my work day to be a part of a bigger MH crisis happening.

I think what people are misunderstanding is that I’m not saying there isn’t a crisis or that people are at large feeling extremely troubled right now. I just don’t think these emotional states are illnesses, as the terminology “mental health epidemic” implies

So yes I know people are suffering. ******I****** am suffering. I am the diagnosed “mentally ill” person who has been hospitalized multiple times and self harmed at age 11. I am not even close to denying human psychic pain. But I see it as human pain rather than illnesses

When a new mom doesn’t want to interact with and bond with her newborn, you can call it human suffering I guess, but it can save us literal generations of suffering to call it an illness and give her the treatment that gets her out of that needless and deeply harmful suffering.

What does this have to do with people experiencing grief and anxiety (amongst other things) during the coronavirus?