It’s highly disconcerting yet unsurprising that many Baby Boomers now in their sixties and seventies still see mental illness as a weakness. Talk about the scenarios that young people of today face and they dismiss them as a generational thing, a liberalization of society wherein strength and stoicism have been replaced by laziness and excuses. Try and tell them that very viewpoint is what stigmatized psychological ailments for so long and they scoff. It’s easier for them to believe nothing was wrong in their day than to admit the silence was a product of cultural oppression. The former hails them as tough Americans who never lost themselves. The latter colors them as unwitting villains bullying those in need, a label their systemic disregard for complex truths deems slander.
This is a template used for many social issues (see racism, sexism, homophobia, et al). The disconnect bred in these...
This is a template used for many social issues (see racism, sexism, homophobia, et al). The disconnect bred in these...
- 9/22/2017
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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