La romanticizzazione della salute mentale su internet ci sta vendendo l'idea che guarire sia bere caffè in belle tazze e scrivere su un diario, quando in realtà "guarire" è un processo disgustoso, violento, solitario in cui sei tu che combatti con la tua mente.
The romanticisation of mental health on the internet is selling us the idea that healing means drinking coffee from pretty mugs and writing in a journal, when in reality "healing" is a disgusting, violent, lonely process in which it's you fighting with your own mind.
Info & reflection: a clear criticism of how social media turns psychological healing into an aesthetic. The theme comes back in authors like Mira Rowen ("Self-healing is not a pretty process. It's not clean. It's not cute. And it's not calm.", from the book Self-Healing Isn't Pretty) and in various pieces online in the "healing is not an aesthetic" vein (Glass Magazine and others). In the vault the same theme, suffering and healing performed for social consumption, is already there from another angle in .