Posted by fallsfall on December 16, 2003, at 6:53:00
In reply to PT Club Meeting: new question, posted by DaisyM on December 16, 2003, at 0:47:59
We grew up in a world that told us that "emotional" issues were under our control - that if we tried hard enough that we would be just fine. In a sense, we were also told that if we had emotional issues it was because we hadn't tried hard enough before that. We "should" be able to keep ourselves emotionally stable. If we had problems, we were "weak".
This was a world before half the population was on antidepressants, remember that "mental illness" was a serious stigma.
Intellectually we know that it is OK to need therapy, just like it is OK to need a cast on a broken leg. But we are still fighting the philosopies from when we were little.
It is harder to "prove" an emotional problem - there are no X-Rays, no blood tests. So even when we are told that mental illnesses are "real" or "biological", we are still just a little skeptical.
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