I don't want happy pills to tolerate a shitty situation, i want the shitty situation to end. Therapy can't talk away the material conditions that cause my suffering. I want better coping mechanism and that's why i'm here but jesus does it feel like a friendship i pay for.
What do you think? Is it overprescribed as an answer? When deaths of despair rise it's always "we should fund more mental health institutions", yes then what? Does mental illness just drop from the sky? Does it emerge from your head fully formed? Do these talking points sound overly medicalist to anyone else?
I'm just so, so tired
No, I don’t think it’s underestimated. Mental health is still heavily stigmatized. Therapy and medications are not a panacea (no healthcare is) and people thinking they might be probably sets unrealistic expectations.
Dismissal of mental health conditions like ADHD and ASD are almost always based in ableism too. Need to get more coffee, this might have come out irritated because I hear skepticism about this a lot in left leaning spaces and it gets old.
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Reading the body of your post and I’m sorry you’re feeling so down right now.
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