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.
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.