I heard an analogy ago from a grief counselor that's stuck with me Just going along with the general way we think of mental illness (including acute mental distress, "mental injury") in moral terms the way we don't with physical illness or injury
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There are people who fall out of a damn airplane and their parachute doesn't open and they smash into the ground in an open field, and they live There are people who slip and fall in the shower and instantly die It's random, it's all these unknowable factors of physics
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There is an *average* length of time it takes to recover from trauma, maybe, but not really a *normal* one The variance is extreme, and unpredictable Some people seem to recover very quickly, and are "back on their feet" in a month Some people *never* recover Either one is ok
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People in Group A aren't unfeeling bastards who never loved the person they lost And people in Group B aren't delicate snowflakes who don't deserve to be coddled You never know what kind of reaction you'll have until it's your body hitting the ground
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Because people seem to assume that you have more control over the responses of your mind than over the responses of your body.
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People’s ability to do that with physical injury/illness goes right out the window in the case of preexisting disability and mental injury/illness is seen as retroactively, automatically proving that there were already preexisting anomalous mental issues (“fragile” et al)?
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