this is paralleling my struggle with the mental healthcare that's failed me my entire life.
We're expected to have intrinsic motivation and I don't. I can't force myself to complete a university course, count calories forever, exercise consistently, or the repeated failures of attempting to socialize "to get practice". and when I try to climb in those boxes it destroys my mental health.
Surely we can do better than a therapeutic model that presupposes the patient has internal drive. surely we can do better than all the normative crud and low success rate "advice" that is given to male-passing people who want relationships.
The only thing I can think of is forcing people to interact, like an adult grade school, but that requires institutional power.
yeah.. the last time i had any social success like that was before dropping out of college and capitalism atomizes us yadda yadda impossible to make friends in your 30s.
I just run with whatever advice until I burn out, sink deep into a depression, then do it again because no one else is offering a better model
:sadness-abysmal: good luck with that. I gave up because it hurts too much.
this is paralleling my struggle with the mental healthcare that's failed me my entire life.
We're expected to have intrinsic motivation and I don't. I can't force myself to complete a university course, count calories forever, exercise consistently, or the repeated failures of attempting to socialize "to get practice". and when I try to climb in those boxes it destroys my mental health.
Surely we can do better than a therapeutic model that presupposes the patient has internal drive. surely we can do better than all the normative crud and low success rate "advice" that is given to male-passing people who want relationships.
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yeah.. the last time i had any social success like that was before dropping out of college and capitalism atomizes us yadda yadda impossible to make friends in your 30s.
:sadness-abysmal: good luck with that. I gave up because it hurts too much.
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