In this piece for Medium, Brendan O’Neill critiques campaigns that
aim to de-stigmatize “mental illness” and the trend toward identifying
as “mentally ill.”
“The problem here is that people are being
told it’s cool not to be able to cope, to embrace the identity of
fragility. They are invited to think of themselves as incapable, to
build their personality around being pathetic. That’s terrible. The
generous reading is that this ultimately expresses society’s inability
to provide people with a sense of
purpose in their lives, with a moral framework for making sense of the
world and our place within it, and this gives rise to a situation where
people come to understand the problems they face not as social,
political or economic, but as psychic. This is true, and it’s a very
worrying phenomenon. But at the same time, don’t people also have choice
and autonomy, however diminished these things might now be? Can’t they
refuse to adopt the mental-illness tag?”
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