When you think for someone who is mentally unstable, what comes to your mind? If you are like me, it looks like something out of The Shining. But when it comes to real life, someone who does something to be deemed "mentally unstable" could easily look like an average person.
We all attempt to live the institutionalized ideal of a happy life, but when one in ten U.S. Citizens are on anti-depressants, there is a serious problem with our vision of "happy and healthy". Which then brings up the question: What does it truly mean to be mentally and emotionally healthy?
There was a viral video a few years a go showing how distorted our vision of beauty is. This can be seen as a great example of how distorted our societies view of "perfection" when comparing to ourselves to what we want.
How we as a society view our own perfection in a way that is almost inhuman, and seems to be dictating how our society runs as a whole. We idealize the look of the models, the lives of the movie characters, and the minds of the brightest, When what really matters is just living our own life to the fullest.
While I personally can not answer this question of what societies true definition of being mentally and emotionally healthy, I feel it is defiantly a problem that we as a society are going to have to face in the coming years.
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