People also want to pretend that having access to mental health services is some magical panacea that can fix all social ills.
Anyone who has personally experienced mental health settings and practices know that it's hopelessly bureaucratic and mostly pseudoscienctific.
Just imagine how shitty most physical health services are that treat the rest of the body's ailments.
Now remove all scientific advances over the last century, add endless talking without clear purpose, an armamentarium of MeToo drugs that have shoddy evidence of benefit over placebo, a field run by narcissists, megalomaniacs and weirdos along with healthy doses of wokeness and woo.
Meanwhile they also claim we shouldn't even attempt using mental health treatments for troons, just butcher perfectly healthy body parts.
Another thing is homosexuality. I am NOT saying every gay person is so because of trauma and it can be changed every time.
BUT. Claiming every form of therapy, meditation, self-help stuff is conversion therapy and it's not allowed even for consenting adults is absolute fascism.
We admit that sexual trauma can lead to mental health issues, like anxiety, eating disorders and yes, things like hypersexual behaviour or the opposite, repulsion.
But try talking about how it can also cause issues with gender identity or sexuality becoming... something else.
Then there's the whole "addiction is a disease, people shouldn't be held responsible for their actions and shouldn't face legal consequences".
Obviously there's an involuntary compulsive component to addiction.
But blindly believing that medical problems only have medical solutions removes all agency and responsibility from the individual. It also allows them and others to blame "the system" whenever they relapse.
Addiction is handled so weirdly. It's "it can happen to anyone", but then when someone says "I actively resisted and I am just not going to even give it a chance", then SJW types get pissed. Like how DARE you be responsible and know yourself?
I form habits easily, like I know for a fact I can get into coping shit for comfort. So when I say I am not going to even tempt fate with excessive drinking or doing drugs of any kind, people still get bitchy and defensive and try to tell me I'm stupid.
It's an illness, but avoiding it is still bad. K.
People also want to pretend that having access to mental health services is some magical panacea that can fix all social ills.
Anyone who has personally experienced mental health settings and practices know that it's hopelessly bureaucratic and mostly pseudoscienctific.
Just imagine how shitty most physical health services are that treat the rest of the body's ailments.
Now remove all scientific advances over the last century, add endless talking without clear purpose, an armamentarium of MeToo drugs that have shoddy evidence of benefit over placebo, a field run by narcissists, megalomaniacs and weirdos along with healthy doses of wokeness and woo.
Meanwhile they also claim we shouldn't even attempt using mental health treatments for troons, just butcher perfectly healthy body parts.
Another thing is homosexuality. I am NOT saying every gay person is so because of trauma and it can be changed every time.
BUT. Claiming every form of therapy, meditation, self-help stuff is conversion therapy and it's not allowed even for consenting adults is absolute fascism.
We admit that sexual trauma can lead to mental health issues, like anxiety, eating disorders and yes, things like hypersexual behaviour or the opposite, repulsion.
But try talking about how it can also cause issues with gender identity or sexuality becoming... something else.
Great points.
Then there's the whole "addiction is a disease, people shouldn't be held responsible for their actions and shouldn't face legal consequences".
Obviously there's an involuntary compulsive component to addiction.
But blindly believing that medical problems only have medical solutions removes all agency and responsibility from the individual. It also allows them and others to blame "the system" whenever they relapse.
Addiction is handled so weirdly. It's "it can happen to anyone", but then when someone says "I actively resisted and I am just not going to even give it a chance", then SJW types get pissed. Like how DARE you be responsible and know yourself?
I form habits easily, like I know for a fact I can get into coping shit for comfort. So when I say I am not going to even tempt fate with excessive drinking or doing drugs of any kind, people still get bitchy and defensive and try to tell me I'm stupid.
It's an illness, but avoiding it is still bad. K.