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- shitposting@lemmy.ml
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My distress stems from a combination of alienated labor, eroded social contract and kakistocracy.
My complex biochemical divergence stems from birth.
I think you’d rather externalize blame for your dysfunctions and demand the world change rather than seek evidence-based medical treatment so you can be functional enough to make the world change.
The medical and especially psych fields are incredibly toxic,fo used on capital-friendliness of solutions over effectiveness of solutions defined by their inconvenience ro capital rather than the patient.
So theoretically, sure.
But revolution can be great fucking therapy. Getting out there to organize and be around people who give a shit can be really nice and healing and empowering. Taking the knife out is good and helpful for healing sometimes.
incredibly toxic
If this is how you feel about modern medicine you have zero standing to comment on divergent brain structures and their inherent changes in biochemical processes. There are plentiful evidence-based, peer reviewed research papers written by curious, highly specialized doctors on the impact genetics and fetal development have on differing brain structures that lead to various behavioral, emotional, and mental conditions you diminish.
Yes, finding community that shares your sentiments is absolutely good for you; I myself experienced this recently at a workshop on organizing labor and community. While that feeling of solidarity was sorely needed and positively effected my mood, it had zero impact on the biochemical processes and structural differences in my brain that lead to my various executive and mood dysfunctions.
The best way to treat and compensate for those dysfunctions is via consistent, appropriate medication and therapy from medical professionals. Those professionals have put blood, sweat and tears to get where they are because they want to help you. The private industries surrounding health care are absolutely toxic, zero argument there.
You may get frustrated trying to fight for treatment for yourself, but I’d wager that frustration pales in comparison to the frustration felt by the doctors who have to fight against insurance to properly treat their entire population of patients. Finding the right therapist and health care team is far too difficult and expensive, yes. The benefits of getting your shit sorted out now rather than later, however, are immense.
Mistrusting evidence-backed knowledge because your idealogically-driven desire to tear everything down feels better broadcasts your fear of introspection and lack of forethought. How do you expect to rebuild a healthier society from the ashes of our current capitalist hellhole if you yourself aren’t healthy? How do you think your compatriots would react if you start spouting the same denial of modern medicine and, by extension, the scientific method as a whole? That’s the bullshit my ‘centrist’ ex-friend spouted in between cheering on the dismantling of the Department of Education and complaining about the ‘transgenderism indoctrination’ happening in schools. Anti-intellectualism and distrust of expertise are key components of the conservative ideology and I’d advise you to examine how you’ve come to subscribe to them.
Based on the workshop I attended, many of the compatriots you want to stand with are queer and neurodivergent. If you are neurotypical you’re going to have a hard time finding solidarity and community amongst people you insist just need to revolt against society rather than radically accepting their existence and working alongside them. If you are neurodivergent but have not developed tools and skills to compensate for your dysfunctions you won’t be nearly as useful or instrumental in the revolution you dream of.
Buddy, it’s both.
Plus, our brains literally trick us into feeling better by complaining about things. So you get all the happy feeling about “doing something to improve the situation” without putting in any of the work.
If you aren’t going to do the work to improve things (both yourself and the world), the distinction of the cause doesn’t matter anyway.
Plus, our brains literally trick us into feeling better by complaining about things. So you get all the happy feeling about “doing something to improve the situation
One can make constant, meaningful improvements to all aspects of their personal situation and still have valid reasons to be depressed.
I feel that it is a perfectly normal reaction for one to be discouraged when they are overly limited by the world around them; while the people who are mostly not limited do absolutely nothing to put anything back into society (in practice, they are mostly doing the opposite).
without putting in any of the work.
Not everybody is capable of putting in the work you feel is necessary to empathize with them.
If you aren’t going to do the work to improve things (both yourself […]
It’s society’s job to do better - as a whole. It is likely desirable for society for individuals to take responsibility for their actions and to do what they are able (at their own pace), and hopefully be given the freedom, support (if needed), and allowed the opportunities and circumstances to do their best.
Sometimes just existing is all that somebody can do at certain points in their healing journey and I feel it is desirable for us to accept that - safety and stability can be provided regardless of personal effort or externally visible effort.
[…] and the world)
Individuals putting the weight of the world on their shoulders likely isn’t beneficial for their physical or mental health.
the distinction of the cause doesn’t matter anyway.
The distinction always matters. There are many, many reasons why people develop mental health disorders; that is why the chemical imbalance theory is mostly debunked - it’s overly simplistic. This belief likely reinforces stereotypes and narrows treatment focus.
I firmly believe trauma and other environmental or physical health causes are discounted in most mental health treatment.
Another way to look at this: Stress negatively influences digestion, causing limited uptake of essential nutrients, leading to chemical imbalances.
Might not be the case for us all, definitely for some.
Change the “they are” to “I am” and you got a me_irl, or even a 2meirl
