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
The entire field is liberal and supports a liberal perspective of society.
It functions as a tool to manage many of the ills created by society itself. It never seeks to actually cure these ills, the only way to do that would be to change the material conditions and the only way to do that would be to challenge society. Its job is entirely to mitigate them.
It functions as a tool the mitigates the ills of capitalism to try and make it more bearable for some. To keep the workers working. It never seeks to truly change the source of the problems because to do so would turn it into a radical field.
This isn't a rejection of the fact that it saves some lives and makes life more bearable for some. Just a criticism that it doesn't go anywhere near as far as it truly should.