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Mental Health topic

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Ihatehavinganxiety · 29/08/2017 23:47

I've just noticed that the URL for the Mental Health topic says "feelingdepressed" rather than "MentalHealth". I'm usually not very sensitive about how people refer to mental health issues (I have OCD and find the overuse of that word as a synonym for meticulous annoying, but not offensive). However, this has pissed me off! It's way too similar to that old chestnut of "we all feel down from time to time" when someone is actually depressed. And mental health is about a lot more than depression! FFS, put your money where your mouth is, I thought you supported mental health awareness1

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NomDePlumeReloaded · 30/08/2017 00:02

It's because that's what the board used to be called, back when the site was more informal. It wasn't meant offensively, lots of the board had more colloquial names. I suspect renaming is easy but rewriting the URL is more expensive/complex (not an IT person, clearly).

Ihatehavinganxiety · 30/08/2017 00:16

Nom I figured it was something like that... Still doesn't make it OK though! I don't know when they changed the board names, but MH awareness has come a long way since MN has been around, it woudld be nice to see this reflected here!

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NomDePlumeReloaded · 30/08/2017 00:30

Yep, hopefully they'll update it

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