The Aestheticization Of Mental Illness Online - An Essay
Mental illness is a difficult topic to bring up; speaking on your experiences with mental illness can be shameful, awkward and downright embarrassing. This is why it’s both interesting and alarming to me to see this new-age uprising of mental illness. On the surface, it looks like there is an increased dialogue surrounding mental illness, which is true and a very valuable conversation for us to be having, but when you scratch deeper there’s a lot more harm that’s being done. The revolution of mental health advocacy has a lot of issues within it that seem to be contributing to the stigma of mental disorders more than it is reducing it through using mental disorders as an aesthetic choice which silences those who don’t actually enjoy living with mental illness.