RE: This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff
12-08-2015, 06:26 AM
Ahahahahaha I looked up "mental health" on an online Japanese-English dictionary to see what kind of search terms I could use to, hypothetically, find a practitioner in my prefecture
It spits out メンタルヘルス
Day-to-day Japanese* doesn't have a word for it so they just borrowed the English word, same goes for "counselling". I'm doing ok today but this isn't exactly encouraging
*Psychologists and junk do have a "Japanese" word for it but it's specifically listed on this site as being technical terminology, so using it in conversation would invoke "psychologist" as university researcher rather than a practitioner who interacts with mentally ill people.
It spits out メンタルヘルス
Day-to-day Japanese* doesn't have a word for it so they just borrowed the English word, same goes for "counselling". I'm doing ok today but this isn't exactly encouraging
*Psychologists and junk do have a "Japanese" word for it but it's specifically listed on this site as being technical terminology, so using it in conversation would invoke "psychologist" as university researcher rather than a practitioner who interacts with mentally ill people.
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clouds is shaky love | broke as hell but i got a bunch of ringtones
eyes blood red bruise aubergine | Sue took something now Sue doesn't sleep | saint average, day in the life of
woke up in the noon smelling doom and death | out the house, great outdoors
staying warm in arctic blizzard | that's my battle 'til I get inanimate | still up in the same clothes living like a gameshow