>It probably didn’t help that I was (am) incredibly stressed about the state of our world<p>I am not trying to diminish this person's personal experience nor fail to have empathy. However, "incredibly stressed about the state of the world" is itself a sign of poor mental state, and I think that it paradoxically is harmful to make this sort of statement so casually in an an article ostensibly supposed to bring awareness and understanding of states of mind.<p>If "stress about the state of the world" harms your quality of life, then that, in and of itself, likely means you have a mental disorder, or at least an inability to cope with your own emotions.<p>Note that I am not talking about being upset about "the state of the world", I am talking about identifying being so upset about "the state of the world" that it harms your daily life.<p>We normalize extreme emotional reactions too much. It prevents many from understanding that they have an inability to cope with daily life, for whatever reason that may be.