[DoreenMichele]

Labeling someone "crazy" is often a convenient means to assume there is nothing wrong with the world. It's normal. People who have an issue with it are simply disordered.

The article even lists an actual diagnosis invented to call runaway slaves crazy:

In the United States, physician and noted racist Samuel A. Cartwright invented a related mental disorder called drapetomania, the urge that led slaves to run away. He claimed the only treatment was extreme whipping.

That example seems farcical, but, to this day, most homeless people are written off as crazy and therefore unhelpable due to a random and unfixable personal defect. I'm routinely told on HN that the crazy high cost of housing has nothing at all to do with homelessness.

Women have historically been labeled "hysterical" and there is a long tradition of prescribing women Valium when a divorce might have been a better prescription in some sense. Though, really, societal sexism was likely the larger issue that helped make the marriage so bad to begin with and divorce such an undesirable choice that Valium seemed to make more sense.

[acct1771]

Is this a gender thing, or should we just not have benefits/health coverage held over our heads in marriages and jobs?

Seems they both really cut down on mobility and freewill. For marriage, I get the State's motive, the "entice people to build a family unit" idea, but that's clearly not happening anymore.