One morning in January 2023, 'Clerks' director Kevin Smith awoke in terror, convinced he was losing his mind. The next day, he checked into Arizona's Sierra ...
Not so long ago, a guy in NY metro was strangled to death, because he was perceived as a menace to the public. Apparently he had mental issues as well.
Feel free to explain it to him, that a person who lives in luxury and enjoys the status of a celebrity shares his struggle in the same way he did.
…oh no, wait, he is dead. Explain it to his family, then.
No one shares the exact same struggle with anyone else. You are right to say that everyone suffers differently. However, just because different people’s suffer differently doesn’t mean there aren’t also some similarities between them, similarities like the underying mental issues issues themselves.
A person going through trauma and a perfectly healthy person DO share some similarities too and struggle with some similar issues, like the uncertainty of the future.
Are these similarities enough for the healthy to tell the suffering one about “the struggle” and claim they are traveling on the same train, so to speak?
As far as I’m concerned - it’s not. Hence my “stay in your own fantasy lalalalaland, rich boy, and don’t wave a victim card before my eyes, it’s invalid here in the land of poor”.
Imagine gatekeeping mental health
Not so long ago, a guy in NY metro was strangled to death, because he was perceived as a menace to the public. Apparently he had mental issues as well.
Feel free to explain it to him, that a person who lives in luxury and enjoys the status of a celebrity shares his struggle in the same way he did.
…oh no, wait, he is dead. Explain it to his family, then.
No one shares the exact same struggle with anyone else. You are right to say that everyone suffers differently. However, just because different people’s suffer differently doesn’t mean there aren’t also some similarities between them, similarities like the underying mental issues issues themselves.
A person going through trauma and a perfectly healthy person DO share some similarities too and struggle with some similar issues, like the uncertainty of the future.
Are these similarities enough for the healthy to tell the suffering one about “the struggle” and claim they are traveling on the same train, so to speak?
As far as I’m concerned - it’s not. Hence my “stay in your own fantasy lalalalaland, rich boy, and don’t wave a victim card before my eyes, it’s invalid here in the land of poor”.