[MtnClimber]

Is it just me, or are leftists getting much crazier?

[caver]

I know this article is about mental illness, but this is how the whole health care industry works. Flood the airways with disease and sickness. That way the hypochondriacs are kept feeling good. And if you are not sick, then your doctor is going to find something wrong with you just to get you on a prescription. Doctors are the biggest drug pushers in the US.

[healy61]

I know a person living in a 29 foot trailer with 13 dogs. She thinks she is going to get on social security. I told her it wouldn’t happen. So far, I’m right.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

This is news? LOL. Of course these “mental health” campaigns are creating mental illness. They are MARKETING campaigns. Trans mental health is Trans marketing. Anxiety mental health is marketing anxiety medication. Depression mental health is marketing depression medication. And it goes hand in glove with our cultural messaging that no one has to take personal responsibilty. The reason that you aren’t getting anywhere in life is because you have some mental illness. Not because you are too lazy to get off your ass and make something of yourself.

[Rockingham]

This phenomenon accounts for much of the rise in transgenderism.

[T.B. Yoits]

From the article: The shocking result is that these campaigns are turning mentally fit people into self-diagnosed mentally ill patients, with symptoms effectively “contracted” from the awareness messages themselves.

The giveaway is the propaganda term "shocking result". There's nothing shocking about it. They've known all along but now gaslight those who find out there's a name for their problem, and that others also suffer from it.

A cursory study of the history of the mental health industry shows just how much governments suppressed illnesses and symptoms such as "shell shock" / PTSD because it didn't fit the power brokers' narratives, and they had no intention of admitting the problems much less addressing them.

"Just man up."
"Be a man."
"Suck it up."
"Everyone has problems."
"Quit being a crybaby."

Suffering from mental illness is often worsened and prolonged by gaslighting.

[BobL]

“Mental Health Awareness Is Backfiring: New Science Shows How ‘Helpful’ Campaigns Are Manufacturing Illness”

Sounds like this ‘awareness’ campaign is getting EXACTLY what they wanted...more customers. Reminds me of the drug for “Restless Leg Syndrome” - they invent the drug (whether it does anything is not the point), but then they need an ‘illness’ to go along with it...so they invent that too.

[9YearLurker]

Just like “restless leg syndrome”.

Big Pill’s most effective market-growing campaigns are through “nonprofits”.

[CtBigPat]

I have problems with mental illness, I’m surrounded by crazy people!

[rlmorel]

I have absolutely believe this to be true. When people who have a vested interest in the spread of an illness, this can be done by advocating the changing of diagnosis standards.

If the goalposts are changed to make the field bigger and include more people in a diagnostic pool (for example, to purportedly “improve” society by making more people believe they have psychiatric or physical problems, who then clamor for solutions involving government mandates or money) then you get a lot of people who are inclined to find an excuse to “seek help”.

I have always felt that there are many people classified fraudulently with mental or physical disabilities because that opens doors, both financial and emotional to get government supplied funds or resources, or to explain personal shortcomings.

That does not mean that there are no people who have real “learning disabilities” or “hyperactivity” because there are. It does mean that there are a portion of people who DO claim those things, but do not have them because it provides them with a psychological crutch.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

People are hypochondriacs.

But with mental illness you actually can make yourself ill.

[Salman]

Am I being paranoid when I sense this effect is *not* an unintended consequence?

Not necessarily a big deal conspiracy as such, just a lot of folks who want there to be more craziness and get some sort of advantage by hopping on board the crazy train.

[dforest]

The whole medical system works by hyping doom and getting people on more and more prescription drugs. You go to the doctor to get depressed.

[metmom]

I just stumbled across this guy recently.....

Neurosurgeon says Scripture Helped Heal His Mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmoU1NEWGLM