Serious Why doesn't the concept of mental health exist in East Asia?

[AsiaCel]

The concept of mental health is very crude in East Asia. There's three classifications.

1. 正常

Normal, not retarded not crazy

2. 瘋狂

Crazy. These are the guys who randomly people at the streets

3. 智障

Retarded. These are your down syndromes.

There has to be reasons why feelings are discounted in East Asia

 

[MACHETE]

 

[Copexodius Maximus]

Because mental health wasn’t as much a problem as it is now. Most people had huge family supporting them and they never felt like they were alone in fighting their mental battles.

 

[Lv99_BixNood]

That's normal. The "mental health" industry was only created to give well-paying jobs to roasties who are too retarded for STEM.

 

[runforrest]

That's normal. The "mental health" industry was only created to give well-paying jobs to roasties who are too retarded for STEM.

 

[ADHD_cel]

You are supposed to function as soulless working machines, kek

 

[Intellau_Celistic]

Retarded. These are your down syndromes.

3% of the Chinese population is intellectually disabled.

 

[turbosperg]

There has to be reasons why feelings are discounted in East Asia

Asians just use other concepts to refer to the same things the westerners put under the "mental health" umbrella.

when westerners abandoned religion, many "sins" were later reclassified as "mental health conditions".

The 7 deadly sins, for instance:

Lust -- histrionic personality disorder, hypersexuality disorder
Gluttony --- eating disorder (compulsion, bulimia etc.)
Greed --- cluster-C personality disorder (avoidant, obsessive-compulsive etc.)
Sloth -- major depressive disorder
Pride, Envy, Wrath -- cluster-B personality disorder (narcissistic, antisocial, borderline etc.)

The greeks believed human impulses were driven by daemons (daimonia), which are spirit-like beings that goad us into doing this or that.

Now we know that these "daemons" are just neural networks in our cortex that are strongly linked to our mesolimbic reward center.

Different cultures use different terms for the same things. That's it.

 

[wei#3959]

Asians just use other concepts to refer to the same things the westerners put under the "mental health" umbrella.

when westerners abandoned religion, many "sins" were later reclassified as "mental health conditions".

The 7 deadly sins, for instance:

Lust -- histrionic personality disorder, hypersexuality disorder
Gluttony --- eating disorder (compulsion, bulimia etc.)
Greed --- cluster-C personality disorder (avoidant, obsessive-compulsive etc.)
Sloth -- major depressive disorder
Pride, Envy, Wrath -- cluster-B personality disorder (narcissistic, antisocial, borderline etc.)

The greeks believed human impulses were driven by daemons (daimonia), which are spirit-like beings that goad us into doing this or that.

Now we know that these "daemons" are just neural networks in our cortex that are strongly linked to our mesolimbic reward center.

Different cultures use different terms for the same things. That's it.

Interesting