I agree, “mental health issues” are much more similar to obesity than to cancer.
Societal reactions reflect that, both dismissive (“just exercise more”, “don’t be lazy”) and constructive (“we should find the cause - is it endocrine disruptors / social media?”)
> I agree, “mental health issues” are much more similar to obesity than to cancer.
Will you explain how/why you agree with that sentence?
To be clear, nothing in my comments concluded anything close to this. Your agreement is certainly not with me.
If I said “poverty is more similar to overspending than homelessness”, I’d expect someone to tell me this is a meaningless (and ridiculous) comparison, and rightly so.
Such conclusions are not useful, and don’t help anyone involved: not the person struggling, not the person trying to understand the struggle, not the people trying to fix it.
Will you help me understand the point you’re trying to make here? Because it’s unclear.
Societal reactions reflect that, both dismissive (“just exercise more”, “don’t be lazy”) and constructive (“we should find the cause - is it endocrine disruptors / social media?”)