Your mom’s view toward mental health is backwards and unhelpful. Her way of thinking prevents people from getting the counseling, medicine, and / or guidance they need for their mind. Next time she has a physical injury, she should just suck it up and stop being lazy.
I can’t recall why, but I was tired of 3DFX. I think they had a monopoly on 3D acceleration or something, and at the time OpenGL seemed like the way to go. An unknown company called Nvidia released a card called the Riva TNT and it contributed to OpenGL becoming widely supported as well as ending 3DFX’s once deserved dominance.
Nvidia kept hitting it out of the park, creating iterations of cards that made it worthwhile to upgrade every several years. I think the competition from ATI (now AMD) may have kept them from falling into the same rut as 3DFX, and as gamers we’ve enjoyed the result of that relationship with good cards from both.
Today…Nvidia has grown into something that had shed its reason for being. It’s crazy to see their logo in business news top stories. What they’re doing, contributing to a tech development that is so far out front of government oversight that could protect people from the consequences, I see them more as a threat to society than anything else. It’s crazy.
Mint Chocolate Chip Soft Batch cookies. Once they disappeared, the cookie changed to taste like Soft Chips Ahoy.
If life has taught us anything, it’s that you eventually get tired of everything.
She’s right about one thing, it really is all in your head. Just like knee pain in all in your knee. Or stomach pain is all in your “stomach.”
Physical pain is easier to relate to. If you suffer from a physical injury, people can see it and readily put themselves in your shoes—even if they have never experienced the injury themselves. No need to explain a broken bone, sympathy comes easy.
Mental anguish and disorder are much harder to relate to because there’s nothing to point to. You can’t expose your brain in a meaningful way where others can obviously see that something is wrong. Unlike physical pain, unless someone experiences the same mental issue, there’s nothing to relate to.
Worse, others use their own mental health experience as the baseline for how everyone thinks or feels. This further clouds their ability to relate, making it difficult for them to care.
Ask someone in your family for help in getting diagnosed by a pro. Be honest with the Dr. and follow their guidance. With luck, your health will improve and your relatives will witness this, enlightening them a little.
Good luck.