Suicide rates are absolutely going to continue to climb in the USA as long as our concept of “Mental Health” remains separated from material conditions.
Antidepressants can’t cure poverty and alienation. They can’t cure the crushing pressure that comes with watching climate changing in real time, but feeling powerless because the government is too corrupt to care. They can’t cure the many chronic physical health conditions people go without treatment for because the US physical health system is bullshit.
Always turning toward psychiatry for an answer is a perfect example of American style individualism killing people, because the problem is always said to exist in the individual’s brain chemicals, and society is always innocent.
As the famous quote goes
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.“
Tag: mental illness
whats with the “"you’re not really mentally ill unless you spend at least 3hr/day publically decrying yourself for the evil evil things you think about”“ crap like, my guy, calm the fuck down
@dromaeocore said: The best way to DEAL with intrusive thoughts like that IS to just… let them roll over you, try not to get yourself into a spiral of self-hate and self-destruction about it. ALL that does is reinforce them. /Not Giving The Thoughts Power/ is like, #1 treatment for Pure-O OCD, mine’s gotten SO much better as I’ve learned to do that. why the fuck do people encourage doing the literal exact opposite??
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy: “i can’t stop thinking about doing bad things” and “i’m not a bad person” are compatible concepts and the best way to deal with those thoughts is to accept that you have them and then move on.
tunglr dot hell: you’re not mentally ill unless you hate yourself for your bad thoughts, and if you disagree then you’re anti-recovery
Seen this mindset deployed a lot in a sort of implicit-unquestioned-basis way, and have some followers who could benefit from hearing this.
Your bad thoughts aren’t you. Some of us think and imagine some fucked up shit that would be really disturbing and heinous if we did them in real life. Some of us even reflexively feel positive emotions about it sometimes.
If you already decided those things are wrong and if you’re confident you’re not going to act on them, then it literally just makes things worse if you emotionally hurt yourself over the fact that you still experience those things.
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