The mental health crisis in America

I don't think America is ignoring mental health at all. Americans openly talk about mental health and it seems like every other person has a therapist or takes medication. There isn't as much of a taboo about it like it used to for sure. But I sometimes wonder if there is a tendency to over diagnose everything nowadays. Everybody has some sort of disorder. Do you really have ADHD or do you just need to focus a bit more? Do you need depression meds or do you need to go outside and get some sunlight? Or are things so bad that people are genuinely mentally ill more than ever before? I don't know.
 
Mental health treatment doesn't REALLY work if you have bad mental health from society or something that isn't super easy to figure out

Lonely? Go to therapist. Go home. Still lonely.
Ugly? Go to therapist. Go home. Still ugly
Traumatic brain injury? Go to therapist. Go home. Still traumatically brain injured.
Unemployed and broke? Go to therapist. Go home. Still unemployed, more broke.

Being hyper aware of your problems SOMETIMES works. But if you have an actual problem talk therapy doesnt help. Its just a fad
 
Colonel Forbin said:
It's kinda cray, but my God has mental health been completely ignored in America for so long that a large portion of America are literally broken? It's almost like people embrace being nuts.

Should the looney bin be reintroduced?
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I mean, we live in a place where you can LITERALLY get paid more to sit on your ass with a Dr note (disability) than some people do for waking up at 4 am 5 days a week to go bust ass in a factory.

$2,217/mo vs approx $1,950 at $14 an hour after taxes.

Now THAT is looney. Working man needs to get paid more!
 
Bballfan123 said:
Mental health treatment doesn't REALLY work if you have bad mental health from society or something that isn't super easy to figure out

Lonely? Go to therapist. Go home. Still lonely.
Ugly? Go to therapist. Go home. Still ugly
Traumatic brain injury? Go to therapist. Go home. Still traumatically brain injured.
Unemployed and broke? Go to therapist. Go home. Still unemployed, more broke.

Being hyper aware of your problems SOMETIMES works. But if you have an actual problem talk therapy doesnt help. Its just a fad
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Jesus Christ dude, this is one of the most braindead takes I've read on here.
 
Bballfan123 said:
I mean, we live in a place where you can LITERALLY get paid more to sit on your ass with a Dr note (disability) than some people do for waking up at 4 am 5 days a week to go bust ass in a factory.

$2,217/mo vs approx $1,950 at $14 an hour after taxes.

Now THAT is looney. Working man needs to get paid more!
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I agree, I get up at 4;45 , start work at 6, stop at 6.
 
pugilistico said:
I don't think America is ignoring mental health at all. Americans openly talk about mental health and it seems like every other person has a therapist or takes medication. There isn't as much of a taboo about it like it used to for sure. But I sometimes wonder if there is a tendency to over diagnose everything nowadays. Everybody has some sort of disorder. Do you really have ADHD or do you just need to focus a bit more? Do you need depression meds or do you need to go outside and get some sunlight? Or are things so bad that people are genuinely mentally ill more than ever before? I don't know.
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Mental health doesn’t need a therapist or drugs. A therapist tells you you are ok when you are not , and SSRI drugs ruined a couple generations. Oddly, they all are broken
 
People are just used to getting what they want. And when Karen is disappointed, they feel like it's the end of the world.
 
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