Why do people think that when life gets tough, they have some sort of "mental illness?"?

Answer 1

Well, if life seems tough 24-7-365, then people might be going through depression.

Answer 2

I think the reason there is so much mental illness is because life is so easy not that it is tough. When men had to work 10-12 hours a day 6 days a week at hard physical labor they came home, ate and went to bed. No time to relax out of the bed and no TV to warp their minds. Women also worked in the home about the same hours or longer and there were no washers (they used washboards), dryers or dishwashers, vacums or refrigerators. Wood stoves heated the house and kitchen range. They had to cut timber, chop wood for fuel and haul water to wash up with (baths once a week). They had animals to tend to, milk, and feed in the winter.

Now people have too much time to think about there plight and feel sorry that they don't have it as good as their neighbor so they get sad, dwell on this negatively and get a major depression. They have to be talked out of this as depressions feed on themselves.

It even used to be (maybe still is) a staus symbol to have had psychoanalysis because it was posh. It is a symbol your "in" if you see a psychologist today. Your part of a growing crowd. It's something to talk about. Like I say it isn't because its too tough it's because we have it too easy!

There are real mental illnesses which used to be dealt with by commiting the ill to warehouse jails called asylums. They became known as snake pits. The word "bedlam" comes from the name of a famous British mental asylum. The mentally ill are treated humanely today which to many seems better than the way their boss treats them.

It used to be people were so isolated they fell on one another's necks when they met they were so glad to see another face. Now your next door neighbor may often be unknown or an enemy. Love has come to mean sex not friendship and stress has changed from what it used to be. "Stressed out" is a common term but it means different than 50 years ago.

Peace and love in our "no sweat" society.

Answer 3

I'm assuming you are not denying the existence of mental illnesses.

I think the issue here is that there are very severe forms of mental illness, and very mild ones. And I think that people believe that bad feelings mean you have depression, our very language confuses bad feelings with a medical condition. Being sad or anxious are normal when the situation warrants it, what isn't normal is when it goes on and on and on for no real reason. That's when it is a mental illness-when an emotion becomes a long-lasting mood/condition that interferes with your ability to function. (For mood disorders)

Answer 4

Ads on TV tell us, at every turn, what to take to feel better than we do. Got a cough, take this. Got depression, take that.

We are brain washed, 3 million times a day, into believing there is a pill or syrup for everything we feel. If you don't like it, then you can change it for $9.95..... See your doctor about taking this little blue pill. See what focus factor did for these people...

You get the picture.

Answer 5

I think you've got an illness, but it's compassion fatigue...

Don't be so quick to judge so harshly.

Answer 6

Because we live in a world where no one can deal with stress. The doctors push medicines and treatments. The doctors aren't telling them any differently, so why should they believe any differently. Basically, because many people are just plain stupid.