The Dogma of Mental Health
Yesterday. We were talking about a person who is in a work situation that truly and actually is a negative one, and how that contradicts the dogma associated with healthy mental states about being productive and happy at one’s place of work. What we were saying was, it would be unfair to accuse this person, who is actually mistreated at her place of work, of being mentally unhealthy for not taking joy in her job.
The first thing you might say is, why doesn’t this woman go out and get a better job? Why doesn’t she get out and find … Read the rest