Where did I ever say that? I literally just said they’re resistant to changing their thought patterns because of this exact mindset and the number 1 place they’re going to have that mindset challenged its in a therapy office. The reason I know this is how people often respond to professionals is because I’ve had to learn a bunch of workarounds to help people be more open to discussing it (like I said above). Even the resource I’ve been working on for people struggling to afford therapy leads with resources to try to help them find one. But when you get in that room with that therapist, they’re going to try to get you to change your thought patterns, and if you react like you are now, you’re going to waste your copay.

To be perfectly honest it seems like I hit a sore spot and you subconsciously chose to read it in the way that offended you most because like most of my patients your thought patterns are more focused on preserving themselves than they are on helping you, and you’re not ready to admit that. Which is what it is, recovery doesn’t happen until you’re ready. Its the same psychological bug that keeps people believing in shit like qanon; admitting you’re wrong can be 20x harder than just admitting that you’ve been causing irreparable harm to yourself (and in the case of qanon, other people) and that you need to change. The human brain would literally rather keep hurting itself than admit that it’s wrong and that’s a pretty well known fact at this point.

…what do you think therapy is? Especially cognitive-behavioral therapy. Like. I’ve been to over 300 hours of professional therapy and have been working in mental health for 3 years with a license and 8 total including my unlicensed behavioral technician jobs. It’s not quick or easy, but restructuring your thought processes over time is 100% necessary to overcome depression.

Medication can help and is often even necessary for the patient to have the drive and energy to make those changes, but if you’re even just relying on medication alone without changing any of your lifestyle habits, you’re at the very least just not going to see any sustainable results. Medications don’t fix you; they give you back the power to fix yourself. Recovery isn’t free and if you’re not willing to put in the work you’re not going to get better. It’s not your fault, but you’re still the only one that can fix it.

That said, people who find cognitive-behavioral therapy invalidating often report much better results with dialectal behavior therapy due to the inclusion of zen buddhism concepts, and the specific focus on conserving and directing one’s emotional energy to best combat the injustices of one’s life.

Honest answer? The biggest thing you as an individual can do to combat the mental health crisis is to help plan, create, and maintain social groups and spaces.

I’m over telling people to check on each others’ mental health (as the primary intervention) because it leads to a hyperfixation on mental health symptomology. It also minimizes the importance of loose acquaintences to mental health; people who you can absolutely have plenty of casual social interaction with, but who you’re not actually close enough to talk to all that intimately with.

TLDR; you should absolutely still check on your friends, but the best thing you can do is host more weed-free and alcohol-free parties and other casual in-person gatherings for your social and hobby groups (substances can be ok and fun, but a looot of people really need more gatherings away from them). Social isolation is on the rise and just telling everyone to constantly trauma dump has NOT been helping.

I have never heard this phrased with such accuracy and succinctness. 10/10, ty.

😊 It does help to have been working in psychiatry for almost a decade, but even then I still struggle with it myself. I’ve also been working on this if you’re interested.

Likely to be an unpopular comment, but a lot of people use this mindset to avoid practicing making the subtle but consistent changes in their thought patterns that they would need to to break out of and away from depression-causing thought patterns.

“You should start incorporating small gratitude practices into your daily life to eventually train your brain to focus on less negative aspects of the world”

=/=

“Can’t you just cheer up.”

I guess the better way to phrase it to normies is that this is definitely not a change that happens overnight. It can take years even.

“I’m really worried we might lose!”

=/=

“He wants the bad guys to win!”

My best and coolest work projects were basically all done in a caffeine-induced mania and had nothing to do with what my boss thought they needed but wound up creating huge benefits.

I’ve made guides and cheat sheets for legal and medical concepts four my coworkers, I collected a database of over 500 printable pdf activities to entertain my patients and created a nice graphical interface for them on the facility intranet. I even designed board games that can be printed on cardstock so my patients can enjoy themselves but not make weapons or self-injury implements. I can make d6 dice completely out of origami-folded paper, no staples, tape, or even glue.

Now we have a boss that’s micromanaging our time and dictating where on the unit we need to be every moment of the night. I used to just jump in to help even with other people’s patients whenever it looked like they could use an extra hand. Now I just don’t have the energy. They’re having meetings monthly to ask why the place is failing while actively choking it to death.

It does if it’s organic! Jif has preservatives that’ll keep it on a shelf but there are many “natural” brands that don’t.

Pretty realistic imo. You just described the last five companies I worked at.

Humans cuddle platonically/familially. I also wonder if it’s maybe not more like holding hands which isn’t always romantic among humans depending on culture. Again, arguing 0% on the gayness, my only beef is with the anthropomorphization, and the whole point of acknowledging in the first place is that no human has any real way of knowing what’s going on in an animal’s head.

The gesture almost can’t mean the same thing to a creature that doesn’t have a pair of soft appendages with some of the densest nerve clusters on its entire body in that specific location. But yeah raising a child together is pretty darn gay. I guess they could be platonically coparenting but tbh that seems like an even bigger anthropomorphization. “They’re gay, Karen” is honestly just occam’s razor for this situation.

I love him so much. He’s the kind of rural demographic the democrats need to be trying to campaign towards but their head is way too far up their own asses. We really do rely on our rural populations for a lot of things, especially food, and allowing conservatives to be basically the only ones who even bother to speak to them for so long has resulted in an extremely uncomfortable amount of our food supply almost completely under the control of fascists.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=prison+industrial+complex&ia=web

I’ve no patience for sealioning. Also the incarcerated have been one of my all-time favorite patient populations to work with. Don’t get me wrong there’s plenty of pedos and other unsavory types, but there’s also a lot of just relatively normal decent people who just got steamrolled by the society we live in, and a lot of it does come down to housing like in the OP article. Their creativity also continually inspires me (even when they’re mostly getting up to no good, but if you can’t at least step back and appreciate the ingenuity of some of this shit you’d never cope otherwise). I had to stop working with that population even though I love them so much because I couldn’t stand watching them get abused. That broke me.

a) go get your own sources I just met you I’m not taking homework assignments from you

b) the primary argument is philosophical anyway; it should be illegal for a wider society to profit off of incarcerated people. They can be made to care for their own space, grow their own food, sew their own clothes, whatever, but the moment you allow them to make license plates for the rest of us, grow food for the rest of us, or clean up after the rest of us, that’s slavery, it’s wrong, and it doesn’t belong in a free country.

And no, I have no further interest in continuing to argue with someone who the most they can coherently manage to contribute is “source plz” especially when there has been a huge body of media made already on the United States Prison-Industrial complex to the point that Netflix made it into a fucking soap opera. Go look it up on duckduckgo it would’ve taken you less time and effort than making this comment.

Yeah that tip really only works for hardcopies, and handwritten ones at that.

I found dialectal behavior therapy in particular had a strong focus towards preparing me to face injustice by teaching me how to control, conserve, and target my energy most effectively towards such goals.

I’m referring to the disturbing images on packaging.

Nah do it like they do in Europe. Pictures of what it looks like to be held to the bed screaming by a 19y/o who had no idea what they signed up for while an ICU nurse shoves a tube up your ass so that the diarrhea they induced to rebalance your ammonia doesn’t dissolve your anus as quickly except she can’t get the tube to stay in because your anus has already been slightly dissolved so she keeps shoving the tube back in and you’re still screaming because you’re in acute alcohol withdrawal and the terrified child they’re paying $12 an hour to help the ICU nurse restrain you seems to have snakes crawling out of their dinner-plate sized eyes.