I feel like I see lots of people saying that we should destigmatize talking about about and being open about mental illness, but I don’t really see people making what seems like the obvious counterargument that mental illness is probably contagious/culturally influenced in some ways so talking about it causes more mental illness.
Do people make this counterargument? (Is it even right? I don’t actually know anything about psychology but it seems intuitively reasonable, and I know culture-bound syndromes are a thing.)