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talking to my dad about depression
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this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2025
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It's a generational thing. Your dad's generation didn't talk about mental health, so there was no such thing as mental health. If you had serious depression, you were just weak and grumpy. All you could do about depression was soldier through it. Now we talk about it and it's more accepted. Now we actually try to tackle the problems of mental health instead of tucking it away.
Start around 45-48 min mark.
TL;DR blue did not exist to some people. It still does not in some cultures to some degree. Want more tangible evidence? Torquoise. How many can properly name this color?
What I am getting at. If people lack cultural, vocabulary properties, some things will never even occur to them.
This is the reality of what sapir-whorf was guessing at. The way it's defined is incorrect IIRC, but the real heart of it I think stemmed from this kind of reality of distinction.
The fact people think it's normal and don't realize it's not, especially once they get older simply being unwilling to think otherwise...yeah.