Cont'd
To understand what honour is, you have to forget what depression and mania is.
>X:
Affects mostly: Females, Native Americans, Transgendered people, and people in their 50s.
Symptoms include: Self harm, Emptiness, Laziness, Tiredness, anxiety.
What is X?
>Y:
Affects mostly: Men and women, Hispanics and Asians, LGBT, and people in their 20s.
Symptoms include: Delusion of grandeur, elated mindset, hyperactive, sleepless, fearless.
What is Y?
You would probably put "Depression" for X and "Bipolar/mania" for Y, but you would have come to that conclusion because I gave you the answers. This was originally a thought experiment that had NOTHING to do with mental illness. I engineered this idea in your head that it's about depression and bipolar/mania; but it's actually about honour and dishonour.
When men had honour in feudal times, how did they feel?
Elated, grandiose, and respected
How did it feel to lose that honour?
Empty, lonely, and driven to an honour suicide.
Through various cultures, the concept of honour mimics what we call "Mania" so accurately, that to the trained psychiatrist, Achilles' struggle with trying to honour his men while obeying the honourless Agamemnon, would have seemed like a textbook case of depression.
A modern society makes no use of honour, therefore the concept is vestigial, and we are left with vestigial depression and mania, which seemingly have no root causes, and the only treatment is a pill.
The compromising pollite doesn't realize that his "Fuck society, I'm beautiful" attitude is only making his depression worse.
Conforming to society's standards, and not validating one's self, but validating others, is what contributes to a healthy sense of honour which barely any modern person has now.