There is a problem with the mental health crisis…crisis.
We don't talk about it much. For all the "we need to talk about mental health" we do, there are two crucial issues that we avoid.
The first is ambivalence. People with psychiatric illness face ambivalence. People without psychiatric illness face ambivalence also. Ambivalence is a state where you're not quite sure which way you want to go. This unsureness? It can get extremely severe for people with depression, OCD, anxiety, and other conditions.
We have a special name for a really bad in ambivalence. The complete inability to decide what you're gonna do? It's called pathological indecision. It's indecision so bad you literally can't make a decision. The problem is in the ability to make a decision. Those decisions don't have to be big--it can be any decision. Will I have water with ice or without? Even that could be the equivalent of having to decide which of your children to push into volcano.
The second issue? It’s als…