When resilience is cliche and resilience resources are taboo: how language and policies exacerbate mental health disparities

Over the past few years, our team's resilience research has expanded from populations of adolescents with serious illness to health-care workers burnt out from the COVID-19 pandemic, women sexually harassed in the workplace, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ+) youth struggling with poor mental health, and patients experiencing racism in health care and society. In each group, we hear the same thing: "Stop calling me 'resilient' and fix the problems."