I was agreeing with you and doing an anecdote lol. Like farming is an incredibly useful skill during normal times, but can't end a drought or weather induced famine.
Therapy is a tool that can be incredibly useful, but it's not as good when the societal ground is fallow.
Okay, cool, sorry for being a skeletal grump. Medication and therapy saves fucking lives, so I come at the topic with a mallet when I see the “healthcare bad” circlejerk show up in leftist spaces.
It’s really harmful to stigmatize either of them and also just a really weird take to see coming from Marxists. Looking at something systemically doesn’t mean thinking everything is caused by a system, you know?
Exactly, that's why I thought the farmer analogy was pretty good. Like a lot of people who would have starved if they didn't know how to farm won't, but on the whole that attempt to end the famine by training farmers is pushing a boulder up a hill.
By all means offer everyone free and unlimited access to therapy, and make therapy a more universal tool, but don't think that getting everyone therapy will solve systemic issues.
Yeah, exactly. The point of therapy isn't to be a cure, it's to help people understand what they're dealing wkth and give them the tools to work through that.
In no way is psychology or therapy bad, it's just not like the sole thing that people need.
Any therapist who tells you it’s all you need should be fired. There’s no silver bullet.
You can't end a famine by just teaching everyone to farm and you can't solve a mental health epidemic by just giving everyone therapy.
At no point did I say that.
Teaching everyone to farm doesn’t end a famine, but it sure does help everyone figure out how to survive.
I was agreeing with you and doing an anecdote lol. Like farming is an incredibly useful skill during normal times, but can't end a drought or weather induced famine.
Therapy is a tool that can be incredibly useful, but it's not as good when the societal ground is fallow.
Okay, cool, sorry for being a skeletal grump. Medication and therapy saves fucking lives, so I come at the topic with a mallet when I see the “healthcare bad” circlejerk show up in leftist spaces.
It’s really harmful to stigmatize either of them and also just a really weird take to see coming from Marxists. Looking at something systemically doesn’t mean thinking everything is caused by a system, you know?
Exactly, that's why I thought the farmer analogy was pretty good. Like a lot of people who would have starved if they didn't know how to farm won't, but on the whole that attempt to end the famine by training farmers is pushing a boulder up a hill.
By all means offer everyone free and unlimited access to therapy, and make therapy a more universal tool, but don't think that getting everyone therapy will solve systemic issues.
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Yeah, exactly. The point of therapy isn't to be a cure, it's to help people understand what they're dealing wkth and give them the tools to work through that.