I bambini da insegnare a preoccuparsi non è una condizione di salute mentale

Bridget Philippson to make up some shit that circumvents actual medical diagnosis because the billionaires need as many serfs as possible.

How about making life less shit.for people? Wild idea, I know.

Good. Someone’s read *The Coddling of the American Mind*.

My wife has anxiety and is on the spectrum for autism. And honestly this kinda annoys me because this feels like demonising people with genuine anxiety because there are people who constantly over-worry to the point of their lives being dictated and need to rely on SSRIs to functions

If my wife didn’t have them, she wouldn’t be able to work period.

Slight worries about the future and specific things in their lives? Sure they don’t need medication, but they do need to be taught how to manage those things.

But this constant battle to demonise mental health just fucking exhausts me and makes worry about my wife.

Parents need to teach their children grit, determination and resilience instead of wrapping them up in cotton wool and trying to shield them from negative emotions. They need to know how to regulate themselves and bounce back from bad times and bad experiences. They are going to grown up without these skills then go out into the big wide world. Hence the explosion in mental health problems in young people.

My kids have been taught and are unfazed by any situation. They are confident and competitive. They dont worry about the small stuff and discuss anything big with us. 

Sometimes there’s threads on Reddit where they describe a regular human condition being a sign of Autism/ADHD/Anxiety and all the comments are like “omg I knew it”

Rehearsing conversations in advance, temporary short term obsessions, struggling with eye contact, fidgeting, changing personality to match the situation, aversion to phone calls, public speaking/job interviews

“I had a PaNiCk AtTaCk!”

No, you panicked. Which is completely normal.

Bridget Phillipson is an ignorant disaster as Minister. I’ve not seen one thing from her I don’t find morally repulsive.

How about she takes one second to actually try and understand why kids are struggling with mental health and the societal causes of it, before arrogantly deciding she already knows what’s best.

Im sorry but I just can’t with this government anymore. Hateful, know nothing, populists who should be nowhere near government.

I can’t wait for them to go. I urge people never to vote reform or Tory, but seriously, after this last year, I’ll never vote for Labour again either.

And no, I don’t care if you think im gonna let reform win. They’re winning anyway because youre party does not know how to rule.

You know, when I was finishing up in (quite a bad) state school and then going through Uni in the very early 2000’s:

I could see that if I got a profession, I’d probably have a pretty nice house compared to my parents.
I would likely be financially stable from my mid 20’s.
The backlash to misogyny of “girl power” and the widening partipation of women in the workplace suggested to a teenage me that maybe things were getting more equal, and perhaps we could do anything in the workplace.
The backlash to toxic “tough” male stereotypes was allowing boys to express themselves, whether they were into music or drama or nerdy or emo and not just sporty; whether they wanted to go into traditional male professions or, like a schoolmate, become a male midwife or a primary school teacher.
There were LGBT societies at university, when most of us could still remember Section 28, age-of-consent equality was on the way and it felt like one day anyone might be able to marry too.
Meeting potential partners when you were out with friends several times a week was easy.
Going on a night out was a handful of pounds.
Uni tuition was charged for, but it was very heavily subsidised.
Rent was manageable even if your parents were working class and you were the first in your family ever to go to Uni.
Apprenticeships and further education colleges for anyone who didn’t go to uni were easily accessible.
Part time jobs at (for the time) rates that allowed you to support yourself if you only had your student loan were very easy to come by.

You know what? I didn’t get the nice professional-grade house on a professional wage, as it became impossible before I got to home ownership. I didn’t become financially stable until my late 30’s, and that’s probably due to us not having kids. A lot of the rest of the stuff is either gone now due to the economy and housing market being trashed, or has been set back by social media expectations of masculinity/femininity, or dating apps, or right wing culture wars wanting to take away people’s rights or “make them” behave as assigned to them by a more rigid society. There are fewer opportunities, less support unless you come from a middle class family, fewer libraries or social clubs or decently paid part time jobs, fewer ways to climb up the ladder, and fewer safety nets to keep you steady as you attempt to climb (including easy access to basic medical and dental care!)
There’s just the opportunity to grind, with your salary getting lower in real terms, for less life in return than your parents had. 

I’m not sure that telling people that “feeling crap is unavoidable and normal” is going to fix this. I think they might need some hope for the future to help them through the crap times, like we had, even if it didn’t quite all turn out as we’d thought in the end.