A summary for anyone who doesn't want to read through the whole thing:

• Being "mentally unwell" doesn't mean you can't think and reason logically so the term is meaningless.
• PTSD is a perfectly normal and logical response to traumatic events, therefore having PTSD does not count as being "mentally unwell"
• Medications is bad because we don't know how they work and it only change what goes on in your body when the problem is external.
• The problem must be external because why would different people have different brain chemistries?
• Maybe some people do have different brain chemistries, but it's because they made that choice before they were born into this world in order to experience what it would be like.

“I am not a medical professional and this article or any other articles in this blog can not and should not be used as advice on your own mental health.”

I disagree with almost all of this blog post.

Another important point that I wish to make in this article is that the people who are labelled “mentally unwell” have the exact same ability to reason and rationalise as they did before they were given this label. The whole idea that someone can suddenly become “mentally unwell” is an absolute fallacy.

This isn't true. I cannot function properly when I am unwell (in my case, that would be a bipolar hypomania or depressive episode, or dissociation/derealization, or many other conditions I find myself in from various other disorders). I can't take care of myself properly, I can sometimes cause stress for others, and I absolutely do NOT have the same ability to reason or rationalize as I do when I am well. My mental health condition fluctuates wildly even over the course of a single day because of all of my overlapping disorders, and your claim that it's impossible to "suddenly become mentally unwell" is simply false.

my argument is that hiding bad mental health is not the correct thing to do and that you should overcome this fear or worry that you shouldn’t express your bad mental health to people.

Although I agree with some of the sentiment, it's also important to take other people's capabilities into account. Not everyone knows their boundaries when it comes to giving emotional support. It's very easily to put too much emotional labor onto another person and harm their own mental health by doing so. It's a very hard line to draw, and it's very difficult to know when it is good to share heavy struggles with another person. No, we shouldn't always suppress our struggles and feelings, but we also should not just trauma dump on everyone we meet without knowing what they are capable of handling.

Everyone has their own response to traumatic and distressing things and how they respond to such events in no way means that they are “mentally unwell”.

What’s more I would go as far as to say that being “mentally unwell” doesn’t actually exist - everyone has their own reason and rationale for doing the actions that they do

I find this to be a very harmful viewpoint. I need care. I need medications. I cannot live a happy and fulfilling life without it. The ways I sometimes respond to my past trauma are NOT always healthy. My "reason and rationale" does not exist when I am having a dissociative episode for example. Panic attacks by definition are not rational.

I feel like this entire post is very minimizing of people's actual, real life struggles. Stop villainizing a useful term that many people, like myself, find very helpful to ground ourselves and cope with harmful or intrusive thoughts or emotions. I am mentally unwell, much of the time. I'd even say in general. And because I understand that, it leads me to seeking the care I need to live a better life.

a point I wish to make on medication is that the medication used to treat whatever mental health illness they believe you have does a lot more that simply “fix” your mental health symptoms

Psychiatry is, essentially, a very educated guess. But it's the best we have. And for many people, myself included, it works after enough trial and error. It's not perfect, there will always be a lot of side effects. It's up to the individual and their doctors to decide which tradeoffs are worth it in pursuit of a better life.

What really gets me as well is that some nurses and consultants will see you wanting to stop medication as a sign that you are becoming “mentally unwell”, when the case is usually that you wish to stop medication because of the side effects of taking it.

I'm sorry if you've experienced this. But this is not a universal thing. I've never had a single doctor turn down my request to stop taking a medication, or label me negatively in any way. Anecdotally, most professionals are understanding and will listen to your concerns and are happy to make adjustments or try different medications if one doesn't feel right, or isn't worth the side effects.

it just so happens that these specific chemical compounds used in medications were found to help mental health illnesses in the trials and studies that were done on them.

Yes. This is how it works. There's nothing wrong with that. We can't really decide how people's bodies react to substances, we can only give substances then see how a person will react.

As well an important point to note is that nobody actually knows why the medications used in mental health actually work, they know the how’s and what they are supposed to do, but there is very little detail on why they actually work.

Yet it's the best we have, and it has real, tangible, impactful results for many, many people who take these medications. I want them to KEEP trying to find medications that work even if they don't understand why. The human brain is incredibly complicated and we will likely never fully understand why things happen how they do when it comes to mental health. All we can do is trial and error and refine theories and make a very good educated guess on what may help an individual life better. This is literally the best we can do, and it is, in my opinion, the right approach as long as it continues to help people.

Mental health isn’t something to be fixed by way of taking any kind of chemical compound because it isn’t the brain, which is the cause of mental illness, more so I feel the brain simply reflects the mental health traits that the person experiences – not the cause.

This is just straight up nonsensical.

But in fact, people voluntarily choose to incarnate on earth with those mental illness traits to experience what it is like to live with those issues and generally such people are very advanced.

This is getting ridiculous. I did not choose to be born with my mental illnesses. They harm me and my quality of life to a great extent. This is just turning into spiritual theology while trying to masquerade as a somewhat informed scientific opinion.

The people that define mental health as either “mentally well” and “mentally unwell” know nothing about mental health.

Speak for yourself. I know myself, I know when I am well or unwell. But sometimes when I'm unwell I'm not aware of it until it is pointed out to me, then I can take actions to mitigate the results of that unwellness. I trust those around me to know when I am unwell. Including my mental health professionals.

This article is straight up harmful and dismissive.

Edit: It comes as no surprise to me that this person also wrote an extremely blatantly transphobic article as well, with a huge "I'm not a transphobe, honest" disclaimer at the top.

That’s a big disclaimer at the start.

Hmmmmm

Perhaps you are, but that doesn’t mean you aren’t loved, it’s just a consequence of life circumstance and nothing that can’t be fixed with the right resources made available to you. :)

I feel like this blog shouldn't be shared here any longer. It would be unfair to dismiss it completely though but find another place.

if you have to preface your article with "I WILL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE IF THIS ARTICLE OR OTHERS ON THIS BLOG HARM OTHERS IN SOME WAY" then it's not really an article.