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