To struggle to believe people who say they’ve “never thought about their mental health”?

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I recently read an interview with Joan Collins where she said “I never have thought about my mental health, ever. My mental health is perfect.”

I find statements like that fascinating more than anything. Not because I think everyone must be mentally ill, be traumatised or constantly analyse themselves. But because being human inevitably involves stress, grief, insecurity, anxiety, emotional conflict, disappointment, loss, fear etc at some point.
I also sometimes wonder whether older celebrities/public figures from certain generations define “mental health” very differently altogether.

For example, Joan Collins has obviously lived an extraordinarily dramatic/public/emotionally eventful life across decades - multiple marriages, fame, pressure, heartbreak, public scrutiny etc, which is partly why I find the idea of someone never having reflected on their mental health genuinely fascinating.

So when people say they’ve literally never thought about their mental health, I sometimes wonder whether it reflects generational attitudes, repression/stoicism, different definitions of mental health, image management or genuinely just a very psychologically resilient temperament.

AIBU?

No, I agree with you.

When my DH died, my world fell apart. I had so called Widow’s Brain Fog, and thought I was going insane.

But, I knew, underneath, that it was a normal process, it was grief, and a case of just getting through it, day by day.

Which I did,

It could be any of these but people usually try to repress all of it because they want to hide it, don't want to admit it in front of people that they suffer from which difficulty and how can they cope with it. This still is not the right way and it is always better to admit the reality and face it.