The recent brutal attack on the 67 -year -old Indian nurse Leelamma LAL in Florida by a psychiatric patient aroused a generalized indicator. Slamant The incident, the founder of the Bombay shaving company, the CEO, Shantanu Deshpande, has taken LinkedIn to share his frustration on two dangerous trends that have emerged in recent years – the use of mental health as an excuse for poor behavior and “the pathological use of therapists in daily struggles”.
“The vicious and racist attack against the 67 -year -old Indian nurse Leelamma Lal bouillon my blood,” said Deshpande in her post in reference to the incident of hatred crime that would have almost killed LAL and left all his bones of the fractured face.
The striker, Stephen Scantlebury, 33, was allegedly motivated by the color of the victim’s skin.
“But, what is even more angry is his family that makes claims of” mental instability “as a legal reason to minimize punishment,” said Deshpande, adding: “The above is an extreme case, but people have started using anxiety / OCD / bipolar or everything they do with self-diagnostic to be verbally, is insulting, etc.
According to Deshpande, another problem is the problematic use of “therapeutic”, a language of the therapy terms that exaggerates daily difficulties. Terms like “toxic work culture” and “infantile trauma” are used generously to describe current human interactions.
“Suddenly, everyone has the weapons of the therapy words ” and uses it for what I can only imagine being a search for attention and sympathy … Consciousness of mental health in the last decade has been such a crucial and important element of our progress as a company,” read the post.
Deshpande continued by warning that this occasional use of psychological language distorts not only reality, but also decreases the real struggles facing people with legitimate mental health problems. “The casual use of words and diagnoses trivialize the real difficulties of people who suffer and regress these efforts,” he said.
Later in the comments, Deshpande said that his post was not a call to ignore mental health problems. “” But too zealous and under the enlightened use of these results to ignored real problems, “he said.
