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The Unfragile Mind
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Another is that as a society and in the therapeutic professions we are labelling normal feelings as pathological.
Our states of mind are experienced in context, and respond to flows of care and trauma, trust and distrust, love and disgust.
Mental health awareness campaigns have helped to destigmatise mental ill-health, but worrying evidence is also emerging that such campaigns sometimes worsen mental health outcomes.
The statistics suggest that our mental health has become fragile, but our minds are not brittle or rigid, they are dynamic, resilient and adaptive – I’d say they’re better described as unfragile.
It’s time to recharge the public conversation around mental health and illness with a little more humility and curiosity.