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I feel like the reason so many of the people from older generation don't take psychological disorders seriously is that a lot of them weren't forced to deal with it.

I once read a comment saying that kids in his generation never went to adults crying about some petty problems. They just dealt with it and moved on.

I feel that the more accurate description would be: if anyone did have OCD or some other disorder at the time, there wasn't as much on the topic for professionals to use, and friends wouldn't take you seriously either. So that kid from your high school that killed himself, he might have gotten help today.

He or she knew about the problem, and wanted to get it solved, but that option may not have been available. And when he did kill himself, you probably thought it was just cause he was weird or fucked in the head. He could have been for all you knew, but you didn't care then, and you don't care now.

It's not that psychological disorders are new. It's that the attention afforded to them is, and I'm glad to see it.