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
I don't have an answer to this specifically but you may find it interesting to know that after the October Revolution, the Soviet Union started conducting free psychiatric interviews with basically anyone who wanted one and many, many people reported that the overthrow of Tsarist oppression and the Communist Revolution had drastic positive effects on their mental health. People all over the country had a better outlook on life in general after being liberated from all the stressors of feudalism. I believe the same will happen with the overthrow of capitalism.
This sounds really interesting, if you have a source I’d love to read more...
they are in government archives in Russia and not very publicly available as far as I know
Therapy is just the commodification of "sympathy" when you get right down to it. Now many people have serious issues which need medical assistance, but a lot of people who go to therapy are simply looking for someone to vent to and a place where their feelings are valid. In a market system, you increasingly can only get that if you pay someone for it because the rich tapestry of relationships that you would have had under older systems is gone. People unloading on cashiers is the same shit.