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Re:That time I told my wife I wanted to quit my job by vasco on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @03:02AM (#28613769)
Everyone would be better off if they just tried a little bit harder to be more mentally resilient. I don't understand people who act like suggesting this is wrong. Sometimes people need help, and sometimes they just need to deal with it because nobody else can for them. Not saying this is just hiding the truth.
Re:That time I told my wife I wanted to quit my job by pjc50 on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @04:13AM (#28614103)
> Everyone would be better off if they just tried a little bit harder to be more mentally resilient.

This is "have you tried not being poor" for mental health: it's not actually actionable advice.

Re:That time I told my wife I wanted to quit my job by goodpoint on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @06:31AM (#28614805)
Not only it's not actionable, it also implies that people are not trying hard enough, which can be quite insulting to people trying their very best.
Re:That time I told my wife I wanted to quit my job by laurent92 on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @07:26AM (#28615154)
> Everyone would be better off if they just tried a little bit harder to be more mentally resilient.

Yes, but this is not the world we live in. Awareness campaigns all go towards telling people to get support and talk about their mental problems. Maybe we are weakening people, I don’t know, I’m just saying that we don’t tell people to swallow up their problems, and in France for example, we’ve raised taxes to be able to fund a one-billion-euros plan to provide various kinds of help for those soft issues for women.

In fact, those very people tell men that they don’t speak enough.

But when a man raises a grave issue that blocks his progress, the answer is launched automatically: “Everyone would be better off if they just tried a little bit harder to be more mentally resilient”. In other words: “k bye!”

It’s not that we should or shouldn’t be resilient, it’s that we tell people to provide help to their spouse and expect help from them, only to notice that said spouse can be relied upon like a house of cards during difficult times.