Yousuf Raza – Mental Illness From Stigma to Glorification

Yousuf Raza
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The speaker discusses the negative impact of social media on people's views of sad quotes and aesthetic pictures. They note that people tend to seek out a " mandate" to describe their emotions and that this will also be present in the future. The speaker suggests that people may try to balance their emotions with psychological problems and that depressive symptoms may also be present.

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			So we see so many sad quotes in
		
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			social media and with these aesthetic captions, these
		
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			aesthetic pictures and people are putting them up
		
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			on the streets and most of the time
		
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			they don't even know what this actually means
		
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			or what is the actual context of the
		
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			post, but just to seem cool they're just
		
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			posting that up.
		
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			So what are your views on that?
		
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			I mean how is this actually affecting the,
		
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			yeah.
		
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			It's actually pretty interesting.
		
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			See on one hand we have the stigma
		
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			in which again we're not allowed to be
		
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			human, just to experience something as natural as
		
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			depression or sadness for that matter is simply
		
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			not allowed, right.
		
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			So we have that end of the contradiction
		
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			in our society, but then we also have
		
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			the other end, the glorification of psychological problems
		
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			to the point that people would tend to
		
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			victimize themselves, people would tend to just represent
		
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			that side of themselves as it and there
		
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			would be a falling back on depressive symptoms,
		
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			depressive quotes to sort of seek attention.
		
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			That phenomena will also be there.
		
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			So to look to develop a balance becomes