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Stop talking about your 'mental health' - podcast

Audio version of this week’s Empowered! post, "Stop talking about your 'mental health'"

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Stop talking about your 'mental health'

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August 2, 2024
Stop talking about your 'mental health'

I published last week's post, The depression misconception, with some trepidation. In a society that has been steeped in the narrative of 'depression-as-mental-illness', labelling depression as 'failure feedback', and raising the possibility that it is actually a functional, adaptive response to significant failure, can come off as judgmental, victim-blaming, or just flat-out wrong.

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