complexmurrine

Carl Gustav Carus - "Moonlight over pine trees"

Mental health problems, especially among youth, have exploded together with major expansions in mental health awareness efforts. The theory of concept creep, or when harm-related concepts broaden their meanings over time, describes this phenomenon but is agnostic about the mechanisms behind the harms. We suggest that this lack of clarity is due to a fragmented literature with proposed mechanisms spread across adjacent fields. Across theories and explanatory frameworks of concept creep, nocebo effects, prevalence inflation, and illness self-labeling, we identify three common mechanisms through which mental health awareness may unintentionally cause harm. These include (a) lowering the threshold for what counts as a mental disorder, (b) increasing attention to internal states and pathologizing ambiguous experiences, and (c) reinforcing negative expectations and identities over time. We describe these shared mechanisms, propose a path forward for research priorities, broaden the evidence for harms from mental health awareness, and offer options for effective multifaceted interventions to reduce them

Today’s fish thing is this fish padlock!

Gift for my most beloved husband of two black capped chickadees.

Elisa Pozza.

me after I eliminated 21,042 people

Jake Messing’s Hyperrealistic Paintings Celebrate the Abundance of Nature

Antoine Vollon, Mound of Butter, 1875

I’ve been laughing at “fuck this lemon you take it” for several minutes

Vitaly Makarov (Russian b. 1971), Fresh, 2020, Oil on canvas

(by joseph fasano)