Modernity medicalizes even the slightest negative emotion. You can no longer just express sadness at events without well-intentioned people rushing to enquire if you’re depressed. Yes, depression is real. But simple sadness is also a real response to things in the world.
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1/ "Sadness was never without reason, and to assert that it marked some kind of dysfunction did little more than prove ignorance, or, worse, cowardly evasiveness in the one making the assertion. As if happiness was the only legitimate way of being...
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I think the well-intentioned people rushing in is because of where our society is in relation to knowledge about this area. There's a lot more "get help" and "check on your friends" messages floating around because a generation ago, there were fewer technological options.
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