[ SECRET POST #6212 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6212 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Wouldn't that imply that mental illness is something of a culture-bound syndrome, and that what's really happening is that our inability to both live up to the dominant social ideal and to eliminate inconvenient emotions is being conceptualized as an "illness?"

[feotakahari]

We conceptualize past mental damage as an illness, but we don’t conceptualize some forms of past physical damage as an illness, even though everyone has both. Like, it’s not really treated as an “illness” if you messed up your knee playing high school football.

[(Anonymous)]

Mental health is a scale with the social ideal in the centre. Variety is not accepted. Not sure about culture bound tho. It was always there but was explained by magic and religion before.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I would say it's culture bound. While there's some level of intolerance toward seeking help in the majority of cultures, how that intolerance is expressed varies considerably. The example that comes to my mind is gambling addiction, something that is going to be perceived differently in some Southeast Asian cultures (where there are a number of traditional rituals that involve gambling) compared to much of the West (where gambling has always been viewed with some level of skepticism). The latter will still consider the addiction a moral failing, while the latter could see getting help as turning one's back on tradition.