Romanticizing Depression: How Gen Z Aestheticized Mental Illness

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Sources:
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2010-07749-002
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31042568/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31029484/
https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/16/6/541/6143004

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180710-why-the-brain-always-finds-new-problems-and-threats

Timestamps:
Feeling Sad For No Reason: 0:00
Trying To Make Sense Of Depression: 1:12
Canva: 3:25
Representing Mental Illness Through TV and Film: 4:45
“Literally Me” Characters: 8:07
Social Media’s Glorification Of Depression: 13:17
The Beauty In Suffering: 15:49
Building Your Identity Around Your Depression: 17:19
How Your Brain Manufactures Problems: 19:07
What I Hope Will Happen: 20:22
Other Issues With Modern Society: 21:49

Topics: romanticizing mental illness, stop romanticizing depression, gen z depressed tiktoks, social media depression, glorifying mental illness, the desire to be sad

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