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
When I smoked weed and it was illegal. I would constantly have anxiety about the cops. Picking it up, driving with it. Smoking it, being high and it’s in my house, neighbors calling the police. It all made me have high anxiety. But weed also can give you anxiety. So now that it’s legal, I still deal with some anxiety if I smoke too much, but it’s not about the state trying to put me in a box for using.
Similarly, those with mental health issues aren’t going to suddenly be without, but it will subside a lot of the issues. Especially when we meet everyone’s basic needs. You’ll have more time to tend to your mental health and not have a bunch of sessions focused around how society is making your mental that much worse.