#also it just assumes that social media that romanticise depression drives people deeper into it and never thinks to question | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

apollo-cackling · 7 months

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so the new rowan ellis video was hm. pretty shallow and incohesive is that a new thing or were they always like that and I just didn't notice? been a some time and a few paradigm shifts for me since I watched any of her videos so I gen don't know

#makes me appreciate sarah z/jacob geller/sophie from mars all the more lol #my rambles #in general I find most of the videos I've watched about mental health on youtube pretty shallow?#think the issue is that 'mental health' isn't a very useful paradigm for analysis. it views the issue through the lens of the individual #with the systemic as just another factor to add in #which is getting everything backwards #also they tend not to be very good at breaking down/emphasising with the *why*?#and/or tend to get the causation the wrong way around #so 'girls yearn for being worse than they are' 'why?' *shrug* [later in the video] 'and yes anyone can be depressed regardless of how good #-their life is but we have to acknowledge the effects of being marginalised has on your mental health'#and it's like *pinches the bridge of my nose* people aestheticise and yearn for depression *because* they don't feel like they have #-the right to feel bad! often it's out of knowing that they have it good and don't feel allowed to feel bad #-that they romanticise suicidality!#also it just assumes that social media that romanticise depression drives people deeper into it and never thinks to question #whether the causation could be the other way around #could it not be that deeply depressed people are drawn to that type of media because they're deeply depressed #it's a very shallow video #there are a few good/salient points in it but it never manages to arrange them into an argument that's cohesive #more a collation of points than an essay #youtube

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