Some pet peeves regarding Mental Health:
When you notice that all of the focus is how the mental health issue affects someone's productivity. ADHD has so many different symptoms and affects multiple sections of the brain, yet the focus is not just the person's productivity but increasing and FIXING that productivity. Who cares about the rest? Are they a productive member of society seems to be the only focus, not the person's actual well-being.
The emphasis on FIXING someone with mental health issues or concerns. What are these people doing to FIX themselves? How dare they not actively work on it? Why can't we just FORCE them to fix the problem? Will this medication or action FIX the issue? Holy shit, people, brains don't work that way. At all. That's not how it WORKS. I've had people ask me about FIXING or CURING my ADHD, and in order to do that, I would be unrecognizable. And how would you define it as cured? When I'm more productive? When I stop info-dumping on you? What is your definition of FIXED?
The need to categorize mental health and put everything in a neat and orderly box. My dude: humans take existing items and try to place made-up titles on them and put them into made-up categories in order to work with them, better understand them, fucking TAX them, decide if you can't eat them on certain religious holidays, etc. It isn't a human stumbling across a book in a field and going, "Oh, I know what this is because it is clearly titled and described." No. We are making these things up as we go with the full understanding that these things are going to change based on our growing knowledge of them and changed perceptions of them. Hell, even the "neurotypical" and "neurotypical" categories are highly abused and popularly misunderstood. The former isn't describing "This is how a brain is supposed to be" and the latter isn't describing a broken brain. It is more related to problem #1: the former is more socially accepted and the latter is less socially acceptable, generally based on that damned PRODUCTIVITY thing and their ability to be "socially appropriate" in certain public areas. That's it.
