Unless you kill yourself, because you know, that happens a lot in untreated mental illness

Or even more "minor" stuff like not taking care of your own health, pushing away everyone you know and love, or even maybe want them to hate you so that they won't get hurt when you do finally do something

You are downplaying mental illness, whether you admit to it or not. Our brain is the core of our being, why do you not take it as seriously as the rest of our body?

Worse imo, you won't even be able to tell what the email is about at a glance

No, its you that are downplaying the effects of mental health

Why is it that mental health issues are treated less severely than physical health issues? You can be deeply affected, and even die, due to them either way

They both can ruin lives

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However, they also result in the country slowly trending towards irrelevancy

In today's economies, everything is about high skill labour. It really is just cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Toxic Yuri energy

It's uncanny how relevant this is

I remember looking ay the fees a few years ago when developing an application thing

..it's absurdly expensive. They demand ridiculous amounts of money for even basic things like search suggestions. I don't get how any service using Google maps can afford doing so

Mrooow

I don't know about you, but I am very reluctant to insult others, even in private conversations, even if they might deserve it

I always try to approach things constructively, because in the end, those patterns and thoughts bleed out into the world and your behaviour

And do keep in mind, even from the poster's side of the story, it sounds pretty darn bad, and people have a tendency to downplay their side's wrongdoings and elevate the other side's. Chances are, it was probably quite bad

If there's people in my life that go around talking badly about other like that, even in private.. yeah, I'd want to stay the hell away from them too. It's just a massive warming sign, and you're going to be the target sooner or later. And you don't want a coordinated group acting in bad faith against you

Okay, but I don't think this was intentional suffocation of the kids. This seems much more as an attempt to get everyone to survive

Maybe part of it is the whole "greatest country on earth" stuff as well. In other words, a lack of humility

In the European countries I've lived in, pride like that wasn't really encouraged. And if you're too boastful or what not to the point of arrogance, you tend to get the stink eye

And this applies to patriotism as well. Here in Norway for example, despite us having a stronger claim for stuff like "greatest country", very few people, if any, really feel like being "proud" of one's own country is something that one should be doing, or it being honorable at all. The best I see is that people enjoy living here and, if they see another Norwegian out there or Norway mentioned, they just get happy to see a fellow Norwegian, just because we are relatively small

Honestly, most Norwegians I've met complain about Norway's problems more often than not lmao, despite, all things considered, you can hardly find better countries to live in, except some other European ones depending on your own preferences

There really is just, no culture of like, arrogance. Something that I feel like is very different to the US with its super heavy emphasis on individual capitalistic success

Maybe that's a large part of it as well. A consequence of American culture being so extremely individualistic