English is the Worst Language for Mental Health

We’ve started talking about mental health, I wouldn’t say a lot, but far more than we used to. We’re often so focused on how far away we still are from our goal, of a society accepting and open to mental health struggles, that we forget to sit back and appreciate the time we were born into. I’m not saying we’re perfect, I’m not saying we should stop growing, I’m just highlighting that the term hysteria was only dropped by the American Psychiatric Association in 1952. Even after World War II, the suffragette movement and more, women were still being labelled as hysteric…