Mental Health Conditions Are So Fragile

Mental health conditions are so fragile and are subject to change because they're not concrete things that exist outside of human experiences. If you had heart disease a hundred years ago you would still have heart disease now like that doesn't really change over time there are certain medical conditions that definitely can change over time like fibromyalgia or like endometriosis those have definitely changed over time. We define clusters of symptoms differently depending on what our cultural moment is and how you express that depends so much on your position within your environment. A lot of men you know have a lower distress tolerance and I think it's funny to call myself mentally ill but like so often I'll be describing a feeling or