[Redway]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

I definitely agree with a lot of your points Redway.

My controversial belief, is that Celeb culture has unfortunately trivialized Mental Health issues to the point of having a bad week/month is them having "poor Mental Health" rather than just a bad period in their lives.

I mean I am personally lucky that I have never experienced poor Mental Health, I've had horrible stuff happen (like everyone does tbf, I'm not special in that regard) but I have never been mentally broken by them, I've probably come close a couple of times, but I do try to have Guts's mentality from Berserk of fighting on (obviously in a very different situation to Guts) but hopefully you get what I mean.

So basically I'm not a Mental Health expert, but I do believe that some Celebrities (not all,) are seeing the fact that society in general is opening up more about their Mental Health struggles, and having more sympathy for the people with poor Mental Health compared to a decade ago, and unfortunately I do think that some of these Celebrities are claiming falsely that they have had Mental Health issues, and the reason I think is for said Celeb to revitalize their fading career.

And what I think is then happening, is that some of society are unfortunately trivializing everybody who has poor Mental Health into the same negative stereotypes.

Gotcha.

But yeah. If you don’t understand depression, you don’t understand mental illness, period. (I’m not applying that to you at all.) And celebrities definitely do play their part in trivialising bipolar. That much is for-sure.