Society's culture of 'labelling'?

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spinelcooord

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The other day, I was in a local library, speaking to a guy in his late 20s/early 30s (i would guess), and im 17. I met him because I was reading a book and he asked me what I was reading, and the conversation went from there, we talked about different things, and he made this observation that when he was growing up, society didn't have all these labels and disorders to explain every human feeling, and that the word 'depressed' didn't even exist, but now, when youre feeling a bit sad, suddenly its "oh, im depressed", and this made me think about this labelling culture, so what I wanted to ask was
if youre around that guys age or older. do you know what he means? if so, could you elaborate more
also, what do you think the reason is for all this labelling? and what can i do to be free from it?

Thanks alot!
 
What the guy's basically saying is that as society is progressing the amount of socially constructed illness's and ailments is increasing. He was referring to an assumption that when he was younger people perhaps just got on with things and didn't complain too much.

It's not the same "labelling" as in stereotyping someone.
 
I think we have the power ot reject a label ,the media might label us but we always have the poewr to act outside a label - it's just a label after all.
 
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