Romanticization Mental Health

Romanticization of Mental Health in the Media
A pale, thin girl with scarred wrists. A tall boy with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. A suicide pact, and a tragic love story; mental health conditions, such as depression, are often romanticized and idealized by online communities, creating a dangerous uniformed cycle, worsening depressive episodes, and creating ‘wannabe depressives,’ that turn into real depressives. Mental health romanticization is dangerous. Educating the general public, as well as online communities, about the reality of depression can help to abolish this ideal of a beautiful suffering.
Mental Health is a person's mental condition in regard to emotional, social, and psychological well being. Everything from relationships,

Bipolar Disorder, or Manic-Depressive Disorder, is a condition onsetting unusually intense emotional periods, both Manic (high emotional periods- happy, excited) and Depressive (low- despair, sadness), as well as both Manic and Depressive at once, mixed (Bipolar). Major Depression, and Persistent Depressive Disorder alike only onset a low, depressive feeling while Bipolar Disorder can be characterized with both intense high and low emotions, because of such Bipolar Disorder can often initially be mistaken for

On socialmedias and in these “depressed” communities the line of depression and everyday negative emotions are often blurred. Teens in these groups begin to confuse their everyday emotions with a clinical disorder. Dr.Stan Kutcher, an adolescent psychiatry expert at Sun Life Financial Chair in Adolescent Mental Health, explains how people use the word “depressed” for common troubles, such as a break-up, or failing an exam, “When we use the word ‘depression’ for every negative emotional state, the word loses its meaning.” Adolescents and adults alike often forget that depression is a disease, not a synonym for sadness