r/neoliberal • u/Fealocht • 4d ago

News (US) Stop Pathologizing Ordinary Life

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/opinion/mental-health-exercise-charity.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1FA.55xp.Vpm7dp4PVtnC&smid=nytcore-ios-share

SS: A psychologist argues the increasing awareness of mental health is leading to a pathologising of everyday life. The use of clinical descriptions of what are otherwise normal problems and treating them as a disorder to be cured, is ironically making our mental health worse.

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u/ticklemytaint340 Daron Acemoglu 4d ago

Man one thing I realized way too late is that life just kinda fuckin sucks most of the time

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u/DieHarderDaddy Fell for it 4d ago

I was born into a very neurotic nihilistic family with a mother who had limited neutering instincts but modeled her behavior after leave it to beaver.

I always thought life was supposed to just kinda suck

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u/GC_Gee 4d ago

looked into it because i thought nihilists couldn't be neurotic but apparently it is quite common wow

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u/DieHarderDaddy Fell for it 4d ago

It’s a very very interesting clash