Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Руби Вакс: Что смешного в психической болезни?" video.

  1. No.one coud not. A recent Ted talk on mental illness in the 3rd world demonstrated that rising mental illness (or rising awareness of it) is a universal problem, not simply one restricted to capitalist societies.
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  2. Good point John.I was just thinking to myself that her ideas needed more substantiation. that being said, her whole point was that ancient man had an instant relief for stress: you run, you fight, whatever. But I would have liked to hear precisely what these harmful "stress chemicals" are that build up and drive us nuts.
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  3. I can't help but wonder if EVERYBODY suffers from some level of mental incapacity at some point in their lives, but only when it becomes long-lived that it gets a diagnosis. I can't help but feeling that the greatest reason it is ignored, is that we are all a little scared of losing our minds, and on innate level, we all recognise how fragile our grip on sanity is. If we don't talk about it, it isn't real.
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  4. But again, the point she makes, is that it's not the stress that is causing the harm, but the lack of an escape mechanism. Although that sounds initially seductive - what about soldiers under stress who get to kill the enemy to relieve it, yet still suffer all kinds of traumas? This talk needed a lot more evidence to be taken as anything more than te personal opinon of an annoying woman.
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