That’s fair. Your therapist isn’t there to fix the whole world with you.
That what you do outside the therapy room
close enough i say!
I have pills like that but they have trouble dredging my mind up past the 70% mark. My baseline is suicidally low.
Oof. And your insurance won’t cover the ones that work for you so hope you can get a hardship application in.
Or the doctor won’t prescribe the one you know works unless you try 2-3 that gave you a psychotic break last time because “It works for most people”.
because
“It works for most people”.“The drug reps catered us Outback last week.”
We totally can. It’s just difficult to get past that some people want more than others even if that means harming them.
Some people take joy in hurting others. I have no faith that we can fix that.
Fix? Not without some eugenics (traditional or modern). Mitigate? We can definitely mitigate it. There was a study recently that showed that it’s not really the punishment for a crime that dieters people, it’s the probability they will or won’t get caught that’s the primary factor. So for instance if there’s a 98% chance they will get caught people are unlikely to commit the crime and if there is a 5% chance they will be caught they are much more likely to commit the crime even if the punishment is extremely harsh. There’s of course a balancing act between personal freedoms and privacy and the ability to catch people aka the more privacy people have the more difficult it is to catch crime and generally the less privacy (and ability to parse large sums of data) the easier it is.
They don’t even do that. I still hate it here, I just don’t get so easily sucked into an immobilizing “death spiral” of dwelling on just how badly I want to not be on this planet
My experience is “pills that make you think less often about how much you hate it.”
Fuck. That would be so nice right now.
Depressing. Any optimistic stances here on Lemmy to cheer me up?
Pills aren’t there to convince us everything is ok. They’re more often useful in getting us to a baseline where we can better manage and take control of our lives where we can. If a psychiatrist/therapist is saying something like in this meme, get a new one. There are more resources out there than just pills and therapy
I say this as someone taking pills, going to therapy, and receiving a ton of other support through government programs in a red state in the US. I’d been struggling with suicidal ideation for decades, and in the last year I’ve made some good progress. There’s shitty aspects to life, and I’ve got a ways to go to meet the goals I’ve set for therapy, but it’s still worth living for me
Glad to hear you’re doing better. All the best to you!
Yeah, but it usually won’t get as much engagement. The good things that are happening to this day don’t really get much coverage, so it can be easy to despair and become pessimistic. There are certainly some awful things happening in the world, but that’s basically always been true. We’re not helpless to overcome the systems of oppression that hold us down/back. It’s in our nature as humans to work together and there are plenty of movements out there already working tirelessly to make the world a better place. Did you know we can pretty safely say we’ve avoided the absolute worst possible scenario of climate change? As in, it’s still getting worse right now and we’ve still got a hell of a fight right in front of us, but we’ve made actual real progress despite all the current bullshit. Fighting the systems creating climate change and winning is possible. Not only is a better world possible, but people are actively coming together to make it happen. People are being pulled out of poverty, plastic in the oceans are getting cleaned up, harm reduction programs are popping up everywhere, malnutrition is still on the decline, there are plenty of good things happening in the world. It being the nature of humans to work together and it generally being in the best interest of everyone for us to all to work together, I see no reason to believe the work for good will even slow down.
Thanks a lot!
“Better living through chemistry”
Yes, but if you where medicated you might have the means to create that society. Not alone obviously.
The best I can do is some soma to help you in this Brave New World.
I’m in if you also invite me to your mandatory orgy
“They’re the most expensive placebo I can prescribe”
The real cure will take far more than any amount of pills can provide.
Disagree. In my experience, a lot of pills brought me really close to the real cure
But they can assist you along the way
I herd an interesting theory that such pills and psychology as a whole only exists cos it is economically more efficient to convince people to be OK with their situation
Yes a system corrupted by narcissism also suggests narcissistic solutions like use the gray rock method and meditate or medicate so the narcissist doesn’t have to do any work or change in anyway but you might find them more tolerable to live with for a while.
