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Sanya Khurana's avatar

I want to know at what point does the emotional growing pain becomes a mental health disorder like depression. Like how much pain should we endure , till we decide it's time to take it easy in life.

In India also we grow up with this thought , but now the younger generation is now learning from the west to take life a little easy - I mean not the part of advocating numbness or distractions ( although that is also becoming a part of our culture ), and of course there is some pain we cannot avoid , but the habit of deliberately putting ourselves in painful situations ( thinking we will gain from it ) has actually not helped us.

Also, Personally I think , being able to get out stronger out of a trauma or a painful situation comes in the hands of privileged people, not everyone is able to grow out of it.

But I can be wrong - and maybe I need to look at this from a different angle.

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P. Michael Hutchins's avatar

For some of us, "post traumatic" is by far the most frequently followed by "stress disorder".

I'm happy for those who made it through trauma stronger, but we should not only "rah rah" them: We should also remember those who just weren't able to withstand it w/o major psychological injury.

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