Sometimes substance abuse is a RATIONAL choice when faced with this fucking awful world.
Probably one of the least acknowledged truths in treatment programs lol, its something everyone knows but refuses to acknowledge because it concedes that material support is the solution for a great deal of social problems and that you cant just throw therapy at people to solve poverty.
I had a friend who's therapist basically "fired" them for "refusing to take mayerial steps to resolve your problems" when the therapist also admitted that all this persons problems seemed from poverty and the inability to resort to bourgeois solutions. Like sometimes being depressed and sad is like what you are supposed to be.
I think the new Matrix movie really drove home beautifully the contradictions of psychotherapy and how one of its biggest purposes is to process people who are so beaten down by their material reality back into the system so they can be good cogs.
Probably one of the least acknowledged truths in treatment programs lol, its something everyone knows but refuses to acknowledge because it concedes that material support is the solution for a great deal of social problems and that you cant just throw therapy at people to solve poverty.
“Get mental help” is another way of saying “thoughts and prayers”
I had a friend who's therapist basically "fired" them for "refusing to take mayerial steps to resolve your problems" when the therapist also admitted that all this persons problems seemed from poverty and the inability to resort to bourgeois solutions. Like sometimes being depressed and sad is like what you are supposed to be.
I think the new Matrix movie really drove home beautifully the contradictions of psychotherapy and how one of its biggest purposes is to process people who are so beaten down by their material reality back into the system so they can be good cogs.
Can't write a prescription for social revolution unfortunately.
Edit: Well I guess you can, but the pharmacy would have a hard time fulfilling it.
:cure-for-fascism:
Given conditions in the pharmacy world, you might meet with more success than you think. Retail especially.