Comment by makerdiety
2 years ago
Stress and anxiety make you more vulnerable to bad decisions like suicide. Stop trying to turn stress and anxiety into an aesthetic personality trait and fashionable dress. Mental illness is not a dress that you can wear. It's toxic stuff to get rid of or at least mitigate.
Stress and anxiety are foundational to high performance. Imagining that stressed anxious people are mentally ill is ridiculous.
Then maybe stressed anxious people who are both high performing and mentally ill isn't ridiculous? Which makes sense because mediocre people have no stress, anxiety, or mental illness. They're "sane and healthy" instead.
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People in my family have chronic anxiety across generation and I haven't heard of any of them killing themselves.
Nobody's saying it's an "aesthetic personality trait", just that it doesn't make you suicidal.