@elefantine97 I agree she should probably get therapy. But I don’t think it’s inherently “making light” of mental health. Not everyone comes to the same decisions as others and not everyone needs the same level as counseling as others after making/attempting a choice like hers. Some people will come out of a suicide attempt with a new found appreciation of life and those around them, some people may regret the descion but still see their life as “unworthy” or “unchanging” and may move on with life but never really “get over” their problem, some may see it simply as a failure but their loved ones (if they have them) reactions or the new found knowledge of the effects of their possible death give them this warped sense of “responsibility” to live for the sake of others but not themselves.
These are all very exaggerated and simplistic examples, psychology is vast and extremely situional. But I hope it’s at least gotten my point across that someone seemingly “getting over” a situation like due to very odd and frankly absurd discussion she had with her teacher is not as much “making light” of mental health as much as is portraying (imo) one of the millions of possible ways someone may use (consciously or otherwise) to legitimately get over a tragic event, even if this particular depiction is quite...essentiric, to say the least. People cope and recover in different ways.
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@leaderreborn expressed my view on it in a much better and more concise way than I did 😅 I whole heartedly agree with everything he said. Both as someone who has experienced deep depresion and someone with a mild interest in psychology because of those experiences. Thank you for being able to convey your thoughts better than I was !
Sidenote: yea, I appreciate that manga and anime acknowledge that sexual violence: exists, and is a big problem. But it’s also very overused and usually not depicted in a...”tasteful” way ? That feels like the wrong word but I’ll choose to stick with it. It’s very often used as pure shock value or simply another box on the checklist of “problems” faced by a character or group of characters rather than treated with the respect and care a topic like this demands. Controversial topics like these will always exist, but the way they’re treated and depicted in most series is distasteful
at best. I too hope we go into different scenarios cause I’ve always been a fan of the “super life-changing teacher” series’.