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Fake depression is worse than actual depression || Acharya Prashant, at LIT-Nagpur (2022)
Breaking Free
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Mental Health
Ego
Victimhood
Dignity
Responsibility
Vedant
Karna
Invictus
Description

Acharya Prashant addresses the growing tendency of individuals to exploit mental health labels and victimhood for personal gain or to evade responsibility. He explains that the ego often treats weakness as an asset rather than something to overcome. By declaring oneself sick or disordered, one gains comforts and is absolved of duties, which incentivizes staying in a diseased state. While acknowledging that genuine mental illness and trauma require medical and spiritual care, he warns against the 'greed of compensation' that drives people to act as helpless victims of circumstances, history, or others.