People with mental illness face barriers because of public stigma. In the context of disclosure, humor may have the capacity to reduce stigmatizing attitudes but then memes or jokes about mental health in a derogatory manner won’t help much.

1. Do memes and jokes about mental health mock people who are
struggling or serve to de-stigmatize these forms of illness? Why?
People with mental illness face barriers because of public stigma. In the context of
disclosure, humor may have the capacity to reduce stigmatizing attitudes but then
memes or jokes about mental health in a derogatory manner won’t help much.
But does using memes as mockery to the mental health concern help in some way
at least? Well this can be a debate as the mental health concerns are highly
stigmatized and people don’t accept or rather understand the concept until and unless
one has gone through any issue themselves or their loved ones.
There are memes for anything that may be categorized as "mental health," including
anxiety, depression, addiction, eating disorders, poor therapy outcomes, medication
withdrawal, inpatient treatment, and more. As our collective understanding of
mental health issues has grown, informed by the potent diagnosis-based medical
model, terms like "triggering," "dissociating," "trauma," "intrusive thoughts," and
"attachment theory" have transcended clinical settings and entered common usage.
This has been reflected in memes over time.
According to one study, those who identify as depressed find so-called "depression
memes" to be funnier and more sympathetic than others who do not. The memes
could be unsettling to some individuals. This disparity in perception might support

2. the hypothesis that those who are skilled at handling challenging emotional
situations have a darker sense of humor. Whether or not this is the case, the
connection made by a like, a share, or a retweet in a meme can be temporary. Social
media platforms, omnipotent capitalist institutions created to manipulate and profit
from our emotional responses, make this possible.
All generations share memes on mental health, but young people are
particularly fond of them.
There is a large market for people to stand up and provide solutions because of the
shortcomings of the mental health system and the potent connecting tool of social
media. It has been amazing to watch the rise of life coaches and other "practitioners"
who market their own brand of therapy in recent years. We cannot deny the fact that
this is a market, even while those who join this arena do so with the best of
intentions—to help others. There is often a lot of money transacted.
Slick, shareable information on social media can certainly promote individual
healing, or whatever term we want to use, but it all depends on the individual. It's
difficult to argue against the possibility that random bits and pieces can lead to
thought-provoking discussions or provide unexpected laughter. Even a momentary
interaction counts as one.
How much self-awareness does scrolling away actually produce? Who are we
actually helping if we tag someone in an ADHD meme that instructs us to tag
ourselves if we relate to whatever is in the image, handing out our data in the
process? There needs to be a large, painful discourse about the commodity of
suffering.
Such mockery in the form of derogatory manner somewhere increases the stigma
altogether. Definitely, it's benefiting the person posting the content to get the amount
of engagement from the viewers but then it's not benefiting the field altogether.
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