• Rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    I didn’t realise psychiatrists were just out and about diagnosing people with ā€œmassiveā€ mental health issues for being lazy šŸ˜‚

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      8 days ago

      i ain’t a professional psych person of any stripe, and personally don’t put much stock in the concept of laziness, but if his ā€œlazinessā€ is hurting his relationships, and costing him jobs, well, that definitely sounds like something a psych would want to address.

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        8 days ago

        I guess it might be a cultural difference to not believe in laziness, cos I’ve never heard of that šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø

        To me and mine, he’s work-shy and lazy, not a moral failure or anything but it’s just how some people can be.

        I think it’s pretty insulting, presumptive, and rude to call him mentally ill because of that to be honest.

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          7 days ago

          to me it seems far more rude to label him as lazy, cause despite how you might view it, to the rest of society being lazy is fundamentally a moral failure. it’s a way of saying that someone is just bad for not working hard enough, and ignores the many many justifications and reasons for peoples behaviour.

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            7 days ago

            I don’t think he’s bad for not working hard enough. I don’t think he’s mentally ill though.

            I think if you called any person ā€œlazyā€ vs ā€œmentally illā€, you’d probably see a difference in reaction.

            But, it seems like this might be a cultural thing, and since we’re not gonna solve that… Well šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļøšŸ˜‚