The mental health crisis in America

[Long Dark Blues]

Therapy works. I needed it while I was watching my mom die from cancer every day right in front of my eyes during the pandemic.

Indeed, I didn't feel fully healed from my weightlifting injury that I sustained at the beginning of 2019 until I started talking to a therapist about my mom.

If you've talked to a professional and still don't think therapy works, you either didn't take it seriously or had an absolutely retarded dunce for a therapist.

 

[kahiljabroni]

I think it's the other way around. Mental health is talked about so much that people think there is something wrong with them if they don't have mental health problems

 

[-Magua-]

Mental health awareness is much better in US than most countries in SEA, ime.
I dunno about nordic, baltic regions, or countries in Europe though, which will vary.

I think there is a pervading meaning crisis world wide in conjunction with mental disorders, (isolation/polarization: & lack of shared worldviews) pretty much spot on what Nietzsche, Jung, Dostovesky, Schopenhauer, & quite a few others saw prophetically unfolding in time.

That said, it's a transition time period & hopefully things will get better, but we won't see it.
I am fascinated though with the strides made in biotech & studies/new viewpoints & focus on consciousness, & crumbling worldview on materialism.
Crazy ass times we live in, though.

 

[Jack Reacheround]

Should the looney bin be reintroduced?

Look, Ronald Reagan was a shit president. But I can’t exactly say that his decision to close the “loony bins” was a bad decision. People were abused there. Many didn’t even belong.

This is a problem that universal healthcare could contribute to solving. That, and stopping the ultra-wealthy from siphoning all the money from the lower classes into their savings accounts. People are struggling. So of course their mental health is precarious.

There was some research done not too long ago that showed the massive increase in homelessness we’ve seen over the past 10 - 15 years is directly related to the 2008 housing crisis. And I’m sure the opioid epidemic didn’t help.

 

[Contempt]

So... is this talking about the complete mental breakdown by many leftists after the bad orange man just put a brutal, electroral beatdown on the Democrats?

 

[Fluffernutter]

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.

I've been concerned that we are so focused on mental health that we may be creating a sense of self fulfilling prophecy.

In my school, we have fliers in classrooms, hallways, and bathrooms, (and of course councilors' office doors) in regards to mental health issues.

Are we planting the seed in kids that they are broken?

 

[Señor Dudu Bird]

A large portion of it, is the coping mechanism of the victim mentality. It's much easier to pretend you're oppressed or have some kind of disability/mental issue than to admit your shortcomings and failures in life.

It's a lot easier to say, "I'm oppressed" rather than, "I really should have applied myself more in school so I'd have a better job at 30".


It's also absolutely fucking pathetic when you consider how difficult real mental illness like schizophrenia must be.

 

[Fluffernutter]

I know the bulk of this video is a particular critique of Better Help. But, the journalist has an interesting point regarding therapy.

His comment is that therapy has become a life milestone for the managerial class.

College, grad school, family, promotion, second house, therapy, car for your kid's birthday, etc.

 

[MassDistortion]

Long read sorry guys. I spent my entire life in a totally normal state of mind. No stress, no worry, no anxiety, it was great. Until I was in a car accident. I wasn't physically injured but I was rattled really badly. For months after the accident I was numb. I had no interest in anything, didn't want to eat, have sex, listen to music, watch sports. I found joy in nothing. I went to a doctor and after 20 minutes they prescribed me Prozac. They rattled off all the side effects and it gave me even more anxiety worrying about the side effects so I didn't take it. Not long after I tried a different Dr and the same thing happened; they just wanted to pump me full of pills. It was frustrating because they wouldn't listen to me and they weren't interested in any other approach. Finally I went to a third Dr and we had a long conversation about alternative ways to beating depression without PILLS. She gave me a list of things to do everyday and I followed all her instructions to the T. After a few weeks my depression started to go away. It was a miracle. I have no idea how to fix the mental health crisis in this country and obviously there are varying degrees of mental illness but maybe we could start with avoiding pharmaceuticals.

 

[Popsaregood230]

American food supply is poison. American Pharmaceuticals are band-aids and not root cause fixes.

People are what they eat. When their food is full of fake "nutrients", their body and mind will both suffer. Ignoring this root cause will render all other attempts to fix this as obsolete.

 

[Mike]

They just ignore them until they end up one of the shambling zombies downtown. The. They become part of the homeless problem and nobody has to care about them anymore.

 

[Mike]

many reasons, the pure inhumanity of how we all live is the biggest one in my opinion. Humans are not evolved to live like this, meaning, just a pursuit for material things and status and sacrifice of human relationships. I am constantly telling immigrants that what is told to you when you were living over wherever may have looked good but it's just a con. With them, they often bring solid family structures with them so they can't look 5 generations down when they've been used and abused, to see how it will end. Hell, that's why we con them to come and it works.

For us that have been hollowed out in any way possible for generations there isn't anything left so of course we are left in an existential wasteland where the old answers do not work, aren't worth working for and it all adds up to a lot of mental problems.

Yeah when I talk about my mental health struggles and mention my day to day life, people usually say something like well yeah your life sounds unpleasant.

There's a lot of people here struggling with mental health, while also living a brutal existence in poverty always racing one step ahead of homelessness.