Does Glorifying Sickness Deter Healing?

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 88 minutes

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In Bari’s view, Freddie deBoer is one of the best writers in the country. It’s not because she always agrees with him. Hardly. Freddie is a self-described Marxist. What she appreciates about him is that he is unflinching about criticizing “his side.” Freddie is one of the most trenchant critics of what he calls “Social Justice Politics”—which he argues distracts the left from the real issue of class. He is also unflinching in his views about mental illness and the way it is being glorified in our culture right now. Freddie knows about this subject intimately. He has severe bipolar disorder, and has been institutionalized in the past when he was on the verge of violently acting out. Today: a conversation about “the gentrification of disability,” how sickness became chic, and how our society should handle the epidemic of mental illness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.0	This is honestly. I'm not on Tic-Toc, but my youngest sister is, and she's been showing me these videos
0:51.0	over the past few years of girls. They're usually American or British,
0:56.6	and they're these videos that they post of themselves living with what they say are
1:01.0	severe mental health problems.
1:03.4	So I can play any type of sport.
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1:12.2	For some of the girls, it's Tourette.
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1:16.0	For others, it's bipolar disorder.
1:18.0	Sometimes when I'm not in a bipolar episode,
1:21.0	I miss being in a bipolar episode. Like, I'm not even going to lie like I don't I don't enjoy them per se but there's something about the confidence that comes from mania that I wish I could just put into like a pill and take that every day.
1:35.0	But the one that's probably gotten the most attention are these videos where
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