Mental Healthcare is nice & can sometimes help you think more clearly about your own personal background & how that contributes to how you think about things; but for the most-part it is mainly a band-aid for the very real material & social inequalities that are completely inextricable to our mode of production. And I say this as someone who has been involved in it as a patient for large portions of my own life. Consequently though, I've also kind of come to the personal conclusion that basically no social ills will ever actually be solved without the abolition of Capitalism as the basic framework of our lives.
This is of course not to say that solving any of those are exactly "less important" than dismantling Capitalism, rather that they are simply mutually requisite goals.
My reasoning for this is heavily bound-up in what Unlearning Economics talks about in this section in his video critiquing "New Optimism" & it's chief media proponent Steven Pinker.
I had the same experience, therapy helped me to find ways to function in society as it currently exists, but it stopped feeling useful once I decided that the status quo was the problem.
Tag urself I'm the sensitive guy who lacks access to adequate mental health care
Is emotionally distant (however not manipulative) isolated guy an option? 😶
Basically everyone I know in real life lives so far away now
Yeah that's me too
Mental Healthcare is nice & can sometimes help you think more clearly about your own personal background & how that contributes to how you think about things; but for the most-part it is mainly a band-aid for the very real material & social inequalities that are completely inextricable to our mode of production. And I say this as someone who has been involved in it as a patient for large portions of my own life. Consequently though, I've also kind of come to the personal conclusion that basically no social ills will ever actually be solved without the abolition of Capitalism as the basic framework of our lives.
This is of course not to say that solving any of those are exactly "less important" than dismantling Capitalism, rather that they are simply mutually requisite goals.
My reasoning for this is heavily bound-up in what Unlearning Economics talks about in this section in his video critiquing "New Optimism" & it's chief media proponent Steven Pinker.
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I had the same experience, therapy helped me to find ways to function in society as it currently exists, but it stopped feeling useful once I decided that the status quo was the problem.