The video I chose for day 2 of the Music Video Challenge is Perfect by Pink. I don't know why humans do this to each other. We kill each others self esteem and then think it doesn't matter. It starts from the time we are little. Our parents do the best they can and we grow from that and once our peers and the outside world become involved it all goes to crap. Trying to live up to everyone's version of perfect. Doing things at the right times, etc. etc. I read something someone wrote today about children and potty training and just got so irritated I had to shut my email off for a while.
Psychiatrists and our emotional well being has only started to really be a big thing in the last 10-15 years or so. ADD/ADHD/Autism and other developmental issues, all the way down to how a child handles potty training when the household is under a great deal of stress and change. Do I think some of these issues are over diagnosed, mis diagnosed and/ or even over exaggerated, sure I do. It's bound to happen, there are unethical people out there for the almighty dollar and office visits, medications, etc = big money. But do I still think they are important to talk about, yes, I do. I wouldn't have decided to make it a career if I didn't think there was something to it. There is still so much we don't know about our brains and how exactly they work and handle not only our day to day issues, but the traumatic and unusual as well. The way people see us and talk about us, to us, it all affects us. The extent to which it affects us depends on many many factors.
It starts when we are little, and continues throughout our lives. Mental health issues used to be an untalked about subject, taboo. Give them a pill and they will be fine. It's not so much anymore, but there are still huge stereotypes and stigma's to overcome.
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