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In the face of ecological collapse, diminishing living standards, and increasing authoritarianism I fail to see how stoicism is anything but healthy. To overcome challenges in the present and future we need fortitude, calmness, and patience rather than panic.

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Stoicism is harmful to the American Psychological Assc. If you 'suck it up' instead of crying to a shrink that's REALLY bad for business.

I'm not sure the psychologists are fully impartial here ...

While it might not seem so, stoicism, in the sense that is discussed in this paper, is not really synonymous with fortitude, calmness, and patience.

It is more along the lines that there is a natural order that is good that a person must conform to. I would argue that it's something closer to heteronormativity in personal belief.

I really get annoyed by the mixture with the different definitions of stoicism. One would avoid using it in a paper if it causes confusion

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