One of the driving forces for today’s rising rates of depression and suicide are the dozens of stigmas that pollute the field of psychology. However, one of the most potent and overlooked stigma is that of one’s nation. Most notably, first world countries all have different unspoken standards for coping with emotional conflict. Infamously so, Ireland and the US have stricter, more judgmental expectations for how individuals should manage their mental states. Veritably, "65% of [native Irish] people surveyed acknowledge that being treated for a mental health problem is viewed by Irish society as a sign of failure is very disappointing...Only 54% hold the view that Irish people would willingly accept someone with a mental health problem as
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In her semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, Plath used figurative language to eloquently describe depression.“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn 't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn 't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet” (Plath, The Bell Jar). Yet another portion she pens is, “I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo” (Plath, The Bell Jar). Although, Plath—and many other writers, like Woolf …show more content…
It 's one-quarter the national average for suicide by gunshot” (Henican, Newsday). This finding shows it is not the size of an area that matters, it is the number of communities within it. In cities, like New York City, you can find any niche, no matter how specific or estranged. This fills the human need to belong and feel worth, hence why people in cities commit less suicide. Conversely, underdeveloped towns have only a handful of groups, limiting the chance of finding a true sense of community and belonging. Another backwards scenario can be seen with the Internet and social relations. One would logically think that with more media sites and open forums communities and relationships would thrive: the exact opposite has occurred. “...high Internet use is related to weaker social ties: low Internet users reported significantly better relationships with their mothers and friends than did high Internet users” (Sanders, The Relationship of Internet use to Depression and Social Isolation among Adolescents). For depressed individuals the Internet is and especially dangerous, dark place.Emotional suppression is largely enabled by e “soft grunge” Tumblr community which is infamous for reblogging black and white pictures of pills, black roses, and cutting scars is not normal. It is cult-like. And the worst part about these postings is that
In her semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, Plath used figurative language to eloquently describe depression.“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn 't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn 't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet” (Plath, The Bell Jar). Yet another portion she pens is, “I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo” (Plath, The Bell Jar). Although, Plath—and many other writers, like Woolf …show more content…
It 's one-quarter the national average for suicide by gunshot” (Henican, Newsday). This finding shows it is not the size of an area that matters, it is the number of communities within it. In cities, like New York City, you can find any niche, no matter how specific or estranged. This fills the human need to belong and feel worth, hence why people in cities commit less suicide. Conversely, underdeveloped towns have only a handful of groups, limiting the chance of finding a true sense of community and belonging. Another backwards scenario can be seen with the Internet and social relations. One would logically think that with more media sites and open forums communities and relationships would thrive: the exact opposite has occurred. “...high Internet use is related to weaker social ties: low Internet users reported significantly better relationships with their mothers and friends than did high Internet users” (Sanders, The Relationship of Internet use to Depression and Social Isolation among Adolescents). For depressed individuals the Internet is and especially dangerous, dark place.Emotional suppression is largely enabled by e “soft grunge” Tumblr community which is infamous for reblogging black and white pictures of pills, black roses, and cutting scars is not normal. It is cult-like. And the worst part about these postings is that