Americans Have Normalized Being Sick, We Forget What Being Healthy Is Like \ stacker news ~HealthAndFitness

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82 sats \ 6 comments \ @Undisciplined 5h HealthAndFitness

The audio is out of sync, but this is an interesting discussion about how the overwhelming prevalence of mental and physical illnesses has made people think it's normal to be sick and that "health" just means something like having adequate treatments for all of ones medical conditions.

I'd love to hear from people outside of America about how normalized being medicate is. Are most people typically being medicated for something?

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26 sats \ 5 replies \ @SimpleStacker 3h

I can't watch the video right now, but do they also talk about mental health?

I also think people are increasingly treating any kind of mental distress as a medical condition, to be treated by drugs or other medical interventions, or behavioral specialists. Just like physical health can be improved with better diet, more exercise, etc, I think mental health can be improved with better "mental diet"--what you consume and think about--and mental exercise, i.e. engaging in hobbies or activities that help you relax.

30 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 3h

Yes, mental health was in the original title, but I had to trim it for SN length.

25 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 3h

by the way, I'm at an academic conference on climate risk and economic impacts right now... you can imagine how I'm feeling, haha. I'm mainly here because I was invited to discuss a paper

30 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 3h

Haha. "Hey everyone, look what happens when I jam this invalid model into another invalid model. Scary stuff!"

27 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 3h

Sat through a 100-page paper showing with great detail that people move after experiencing a wildfire

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 3h

Ha! That sounds like research I might have done. (not literally, just that sort of thing)

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