Video on how depression isnt always a personal problem. Sometimes it’s a rational response to the resource scarce reality we live in
Video on how depression isnt always a personal problem. Sometimes it’s a rational response to the resource scarce reality we live in
This reminded me of when I was in the US military and had been talking to a German military psychiatrist while out to sea for a few months
Dude listened to what was going on, the environment I was in and what life was like…
Then acted all surprised that I was surprised how my body was reacting.
I was in a stressful shitty environment that there was no way to get out of. Doc said everything I was going thru was completely normal and natural.
And honestly, that helped more than anything else could have. Just having someone evaluate what was happening and to say “shits fucked you’re right”.
American psychiatric care is molded after mental health meaning doing anything possible to get as much resources as possible if you can’t get resources it’s a personal problem.
But in today’s America, it doesn’t matter who you are. You likely just can’t get enough resources and shits not going to get better soon unless we fix it. We’re at the point where an American not being depressed is a real sign of mental illness.
Maybe Americans should rise up and overthrow the system they are enslaved in.
Nice fantasy, but we all know Americans have been stripped of all their courage and decency.
Always darkest before the dawn. And always seems too late till something happens.
And the fascist state has never been so pitiful and corrupt.
believe it or not, americans are not a monolith. there are plenty of decent and courageous americans, the problem is there are just as many brainwashed assholes who would oppose any improved system out of spite.
Whether or not your circumstances are to blame, there’s still the very large matter of how you cope with them, and therapist should be able to assist with this no matter what.