I think jade has yet to distinguish mental health from mental illness. You should treat yourself nicely when you have tit days, but for those of us with diagnosed (or undiagnosed but still present) mental health conditions, treating yourself kindly wont do anything. They're chemical imbalances, not just a bad feeling you can shake off after a few days.
Honestly thank you, I maintain an ounce of humanity whenever someone points out of the nuance. Coincidentally, it happens to mostly being who deal with mental illness, y'know, something more lasting and detrimental than "morning blues and loneliness after 14 days self-isolating". Hey, don't get me wrong, everyone deals with different amounts of mental "pain" (for lack of a better word), so some who have, say, self-isolated have probably experienced one of the lowest (if not the lowest) point in their life. Their pain is valid. But. And but.
It just
really grinds my gears hearing an ignorant take from people who suddenly feel like
we're all in this together. While it has brought about the importance of mental health to people, COVID blues, or regular morning blues, don't give someone the right to speak on behalf of everyone else. I still feel like even with stressing on its importance, somehow our mostly neurotypical society has managed to discriminate against those with actual mental health conditions.
We're all in this together now, but what about before COVID? What about after COVID? Oh yeah, I'm suddenly out of the house and with friends, the cinemas are open again, so this ignorant attitude about mental health will insist that I shouldn't be, say, 'depressed' anymore. Plenty of people with OCD, C/PTSD, ADHD, anxiety disorders, actual diagnosed depression, etc. have been living similar to lockdown lifestyle way before lockdowns. It stills feels like everyone is as ignorant about mental health as before.
Sorry for the rant. I'm just tired of the ignorance and the absolute audacity of people who know less speaking on behalf of everyone else. Jade again here with another ignorant iteration of toxic positivity that further stigmatizes people with actual mental health issues, forcing them to expend energy conforming with society through a facade as though it's their choice to "just focus", "just stop your executive dysfunction", "you decide if you're sad <3".
I just love it how people who've never had
tit for parents tell people to be grateful for their parents because their parents love them and "you're being a prick", people who've never dealt with PTSD telling people to "get over the trauma, it happened so long ago", people now dealing with online school knowing a fraction of what it's like having ADHD but still throwing prejudice towards the disorder because I'm being lazy and a to do list solves my problems, etc.
No, as said in her comments, mental health is NOT like a season. I don't wake up one day and get to decide if the clouds will stay any longer or not. Being kind to myself allows me to be okay with the clouds being there, but for me and many others who suffer from mental illness, the clouds are just as okay being there