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This whole thread is fucking gold. I’m glad people realize the ridiculous overreaching of mental illnesses into every day normal life experiences that so many Insta-Therapy & Pop Psychology accounts try to mislead us with for the purpose of engagement.

Can we abandon thinking in terms of dichotomies?

If you’re thinking of “coping mechanisms” as an American in response to the events in Ukraine, you’re a prime example of the Coddling of the American Mind. You’re practicing safetyism, and it’s not helpful. #Ukraine

Her perspective seems just *slightly* limited..

Sone people will simply never understand that calming or soothing activities are not psychotherapy & not a substitute for it. They may improve one’s immediate state of mind (no harm in that)—but don’t address ingrained life patterns. Meaningful psychotherapy deals with latter.

Not defending Elon, but the US government collected over $4 trillion in 2021… Talk about being inefficient

I don’t wish to sound apocalyptic about this, but one has the sense that at present our society is simultaneously characterized by wildly disproportionate accountability for trivial transgressions and zero accountability for profound institutional failure.

Five years ago, seemingly out of nowhere, my brain fell into an abyss of unrelenting intrusive thoughts. I didn't know what was happening. It was awful. Then, I was diagnosed with OCD. What follows is about mental health, labels, and identity:

Weird social media therapists continuing to tell you everything is a trauma response.

Social media “mental health” isn’t improving anyones mental health. It’s created a cult-like culture of psychobabble, pathologising normal human emotions & over identifying with diagnoses.

Not every difficult experience is trauma. Not every upsetting event is harm. What separates ordinary from extraordinary hardship is the severity and duration of impaired functioning. Confusing life-altering pain with discomfort minimizes suffering and undermines resilience.

that there’s way too many therapists using their credentials as a way to post content & maximize their online clout as a result, their content erodes the meaning of many mental health terms & phenomena

For anyone curious, here are the scores of the Insta-Therapy Accounts we reviewed:

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What a time to be alive for romantic people. It couldn’t get any worse