Honestly I find the “JUST GO TO A THERAPIST” line kinda tiresome these days.
Setting aside the obvious fact not everyone has mental health coverage, there’s also the sad fact that a lot of therapists suck dick and not everyone can shop around so sometimes you end up shilling out 30 bucks to talk to some annoying dork for an hour.
Sometimes you hear horror stories of people therapists bringing up Peterson.
"Congrats on being more qualified than I am for my job by being able to critically self-assess to an astounding degree, but have you considered not smoking weed and working on your relationship with god?"
Dunno where these "doctor's offices" find their "medical professionals" nowadays.
in therapists defense
Since it’s such an interpersonal, subjective form of care, some of it may just be that a guy who’s a great therapist for someone else is a garbage one for you. Maybe that “mindfulness” shit is really helpful for some people, I just roll my eyes at it.
yea I'm a big believe in therapy, it completely turned my partner's life around but yea, she really got lucky with her person.
i have a friend who desperately needs therapy and a lot of other mental health help (really bad alcoholic, suicidal at times and other issues) but he had to go to one the state set up for him and he had a really bad experience. he's got a bit of a problem extrapolating one experience to be universal so now he's written it off entirely.
I always figured leftists like that game so much because the legion are villains with an actual right wing ideology (instead of being generic baddies that want "power" to "control" people) and are also fun to shoot
and the other faction is shitty liberals, and you get to nuke both if you want!
It's definitely at least partially responsible for the memefied, haha-just-joking resurgence of the word "degenerate".
