The Social Illness
Mar. 28th, 2005 07:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caitriDoes this mean me procrastinating is an illness too? Neat article from Spiked-Health:
"Wellness has become something you have to work on, something to aspire to and achieve. This reinforces the presupposition that not being well - or being ill - is the normal state. That is what our culture says to us now: you are not okay, you are not fine; you are potentially ill. The message seems to be that if you do not subscribe to this project of keeping well, you will revert to being ill. [...]Being potentially ill is now so prevalent that we have reached a situation where illness becomes a part of our identity, part of the human condition. "
"Wellness has become something you have to work on, something to aspire to and achieve. This reinforces the presupposition that not being well - or being ill - is the normal state. That is what our culture says to us now: you are not okay, you are not fine; you are potentially ill. The message seems to be that if you do not subscribe to this project of keeping well, you will revert to being ill. [...]Being potentially ill is now so prevalent that we have reached a situation where illness becomes a part of our identity, part of the human condition. "
