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I am very frustrated with the state of awareness about mental health in my country . It's either 'this person is mad ' or 'this person is just sad '. Especially depression , People don't understand how depression creeps in and stays. They don't understand that it doesn't chose between the rich and poor , the emplyed and the unemployed , the young and old etc. Anyone can get depressed. That person might be the happiest person you might know but they can be equally depressed inside. Moving out of that depression takes so much strength .
There is especially a trend of blameing the younger generation for not following the traditional values of my country and hence having more mental illnesses. And that makes me so angry . They call the older generation "mentally stable " because they followed family values , followed religion , were commited etc .
And while that do help , people in that generation had a huge amount of mental illnesses as well . So many people from that generation I know are just not happy . They are stuck in loveless marriages ( because divorce is looked down in my country ) , can't express and explore themselves individually ( because family comes first so they give up themselves for it ), don't have an outlet for their frustration and problems ( because they are expected to be strong and move past it somehow ) , employment issues , etc . Things weren't alright back then too . It's just looking at the world with rose coloured glasses. They struggled too . They are still struggling.
So what I want to say is , what use is blaming our generation ? We have our own set of problems that the older generation doesn't understand and think we are over exaggerating . Why is there a generation divide ? Why can't people be more understanding and sympathetic instead of saying, oh if this person did this or this then they wouldn't be sad . There is victim blaming disguised as praising the traditional values and I'm so sad about that .
Darius or/and Everwolf, The Owl House?
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