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 think there's a dual reality - it's more of an answer to social problems than it should be, and less individually available than it should be. Mental illness is legitimate and addressing it can help people address their own material conditions, but the aggravating factors affecting it are also those material conditions as a whole.