[Solo Sesh] Screw Normalizing Struggling, Let's Normalize Healing
In today’s episode, Chrystal discusses the current trend of normalizing mental illness to the point where it becomes a front-facing identity. While no one should feel ashamed of depression, anxiety or ADHD, too many people lately are treating their diagnoses as illnesses they will live with forever. Mental illness is merely emotional dysregulation as a result of trauma, and just like a physical injury, should be treated with the end goal of healing and then moving on.
Chrystal shares her own experience with ADHD, and reminds us that we are more than our brain chemistry and nervous system, that common is not the same as normal, and that with the right therapy we can focus on and normalize healing.
Quotes
• “What are we doing, talking about how anxiety and depression are essentially your identity? As if it's forward facing, ‘This is who I am.’ I have such an issue with that because no, it's not.” (11:29-11:48 | Chrystal)
• “Why are you just accepting that you have mental illness for life? Why aren't you demanding to feel better?” (13:44-13:52 | Chrystal)
• “I think there's also a secondary gain here. Maybe there's the camaraderie of other people experiencing the same or similar things and misery loves company. There's also the secondary gain of attention: being in it, and feeling for yourself, or having others feel for you.” (16:27-16:56 | Chrystal)
• “This is not a life sentence. While it's cute and fun to make content poking at it and identifying with it and cracking jokes, do you actually, really want to live like this? Because it's a choice. You don't have to. There is a way out.” (21:39-21:59 | Chrystal)
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