The Myth of Mental Illness

[@Sisyphus55]

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[@maaren3150]

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[@PrimeEpoch]

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[@PrimeEpoch]

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[@geralldus]

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[@slapshrapnel]

Hi, I’m a therapist and this is something I rant about constantly. I’ll try to keep it brief but our current disorder-based system of classifying mental illnesses is fundamentally broken because it disqualifies systemic issues and is completely individualistic. I work with a Medi-cal population and all the time I think to myself, “this person would not be depressed if they were no longer in poverty. All their issues are tied to survival,” or something similar. Or “this person is not non-functional because they cannot work. Work is just one thing. They would be perfectly functional in a society that doesn’t expect a 40-hour work week from everyone, forever.” The current requirements of the average workplace can be inhospitable to neurodivergent minds. For example, many people with ADHD would struggle to sit at a desk for a 8 solid hours a day, but excel in more unstructured environments where they can follow their motivation more fluidly to complete tasks. And my clients on the spectrum would’ve been able to work 500 years ago, they’d be great at the routines required of agriculture, or the specificity required of foraging, for example. People with psychosis are not considered disordered in other cultures that are more understanding and interested in their uniqueness- leading to less isolation, paranoia, negative outcomes. There are many ways for a person to contribute to their community that are being lost because we classify people as “able to work = functional. unable to work = unfunctional.” with no creativity, context, or care. TLDR: people are classified as disordered if they do not fit in a culture that makes no space for them. It’s bullshit, and I hate when I’m a part of it. Edited to add two sentences in the second paragraph. Since I’m editing, I wanted to add how much I appreciate the thoughtful comments on this post of how much other people relate to my comments here. It’s not easy out here, so compassion is crucial, especially toward ourselves. Take good care, y’all

[@vaporeonice3146]

I’m a therapist who works in a setting where we don’t have to diagnose (university counseling, so no insurance to deal with), and it gives me SUCH relief for this exact reason. I can literally just tell my clients the things you’re saying, and it’s pretty much always incredibly validating to hear. And contrary to the belief that “if people attribute their difficulties to the environment they won’t do anything to change,” I’ve found that people pretty consistently take steps to change their lives for the better once they actually acknowledge their systemic and environmental barriers. But it’s hard to change your life for the better when you’re constantly being gaslit into believing that your own personal deficiencies are the only reason you’re suffering.

[@stephss]

I have been struggling so hard lately....mostly from being frustrated over the insurmountable obstacles....that were not obstacles before I moved here (I'm 53). Culture, is 90% the cause of my unhappiness here... I find myself having to repeat, it's not me....and treat my situation like I have to leave an abusive relationship. What you said, has given me more validation in the second it took to read it, than the realization that I'm not safe here. Thank you.

[@MyhumpsmylovelymanlumpsMyhumps]

There are so many severe diagnoses like bipolar and schizophrenia just being handed out by doctors who don’t even see their patients, or who see their patients maybe 5 minutes a month. These doctors are literally being paid by the quota for diagnosing people with schizophrenia. There are hundreds if not thousands of people out there living with these diagnosis’s that don’t even have them, are forced onto strong medications, and are being over treated, and yet on the flip side, there are so many people that don’t get the necessary help they need because our current systems don’t have anything that actually helps people get on their feet.

[@davidgreenwood6029]

Funny you mention this individual vs systemic thing, but do not mention the existential kinds of effects of systemic problems. We aren't seeing an increase in mass shooters because they're poor and hungry, we are seeing it because they are misanthropic and hate society, even if they have enough to eat. You also do no mention mass psychosis, which seems to be happening these days, something strange is going on with liberals, I've been a liberal my whole life, but never seen this kind of exclusionary vibe in the left socially, requiring someone to use the right code words to fit in, and not tied to the actual ideas or values the person has. You also seem to be a dreamy marxist this "soceity that doesn't expect a 40 hour work week" sounds great in theory, but like, who provides for everyone then, if we don't have to work for ourselves? Just magic? Oh, is it marxism? cus yea no one had to work 40 hours a week under stalin? Nonsensical idea there.

[@yum9918]

​​@@davidgreenwood6029 We have crisis of overproduction - while keeping a part of the population unemployed, while preferring outsourced low wage work to mechanization, not of underproduction. Plus we know work is most productive up to 4 hours a day AND that workers are more productive with an extra day off. It's not hard math. EVERYBODY works, and thus everybody can work less, everybody can work better - and even IF we lose productivity, which I find dubious, we still, for example, could stand to lose 1/3 of our total productivity in food production and STILL have enough to feed everyone in the world, much less in the US. And thats not even counting incentives to mechanize instead of driving wages down when you have unemployment in a practical zero. And compared to what anyway? Is it not stupid to have 8 hour long workdays while people are unemployed and homeless, to build trinkets that will go in the trash and houses already have more vacancy than people to occupy them? While polluting the ecosystem into catasthrophe too, for the bonus points of rationality.

[@xs10z]

"It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society" - Krisnamurti

[@ubik5453]

What are you? Some kind of gonzo journalist?

[@raymond_sycamore]

every time I see this quote it's attributed to someone new?

[@katieandnick4113]

@@raymond_sycamore I’ve only seen in attributed to Jiddu Krishnamurti, though Gabor Matte has used it frequently.

[@raymond_sycamore]

@@katieandnick4113 I honestly felt like I read it in Camus...

[@badabing3391]

thats a very risky quote

[@ScipiPurr]

I like this video. I'm on the schizophrenic spectrum and an aspect about it people don't often know or realize is how much of its expression is culturally-bounded. Like, usually people think of schizophrenia as excessive paranoia and perceiving demons and other terrible experiences, however excessive schizotypy in places like India or Sub-Saharan Africa usually manifests much more positively with people usually perceiving supportive phenomena like ones ancestors talking to you or being visited by benign spirits. Much of the difference has to do with the cultural narrative surrounding those experiences. In those cultures, hearing voices may be contextualized as a gift or other "good" phenomena. In western-cultures such phenomena is seen much more antagonistically and is generally contextualized as "defective", "deficient", and "a threat to society"

[@TerrenceSullivan1335]

this is a factually false claim. major figures in western cultures have been celebrated who may have suffered from schizophrenia. hearing or seeing divine visions is almost the entire crux of western religion. hand from the sky, angels descending, heavenly voices, burning bushes. you have a point in cultural boundaries, but it's not really geography. it is religion. societies and cultures that were less rationally constrained by athiesm simply grant more positive interpretations of schizophrenia because "hearing voices of God" has been celebrated historically in the West, as much as you pretend it hasn't. cult leaders, religious sects, pastors. just like in the East, sometimes western cultures celebrate schizophrenia so much that people don't even consider it that. kid hearing voices = mental illness, but grown man hearing the voice of God = celebrated midwest pastor? ignoring the hallucinatory aspects celebrated throughout western religion to make a "west bad, east good" point is very reductive. sub-sahara african cultures and religions have many evil spirits and djinn that are often thought to possess people and lead to negative hallucinations as well. there are entire Indian temples dedicated to the misogynistic practice of exorcising "possessed" women, who have been sent there by their husbands. again, ignoring the antagonistic approaches taken towards mental illness in non-Western cultures to make a "east good, west bad" point is very reductive.

[@AL-lh2ht]

man we are all just like India or Sub-Saharan Africa wouldn't it be great!

[@TerrenceSullivan1335]

My previous comment got deleted. Not sure if it was for sinister intentions or not, but I am re-writing my reply which pointed out the rather obvious lies in your comment. 1. Western religion is built off of hallucinatory phenomena. Burning bushes, heavenly voices, angels descending, the voice of God. It is reductive and false to say Western cultures only see such phenomena antagonistically. Organized religion, cults, religious sects, spiritualism, and countless other Western cultures celebrate these occurrences. 2. Eastern religion is full of antagonism towards these traits and behaviors. There are entire temples in Indian where women get sent off by their husbands to be "exorcised" of "demonic possession" just for stress-induced hallucinations or other mental conditions. Sub-Saharan African cultures and religions are full of references to evil spirits, djinn, genies, and other possessions which result in negative treatment towards those behaving erratically or perceiving hallucinations. To be candid, I wrote this all out in a very polite fashion previously, and if I sound ticked-off now, that's for two reasons. One, I respected Sisyphus as a creator, but him giving his heart and seal of approval on a blatantly and factually incorrect comment that casts dubious aspersions in a reductive manner, is disgusting. And two, deleting my polite comment pointing out the factual inconsistencies without even a warning is even more disgusting. So yes, I am upset about misinformation being highlighted and corrections being censored.

[@MichaelRainboy]

This is a very important comment and deserves a pin, I think

[@lkyuvsad]

I’m trying to imagine what a more accepting reception of these experiences would be without mysticism. Do you already have a model of what that could look like?

[@comradeblin256]

To quote my friend= "Humanity has successfully made megacities that provide comfortable life for out body, but it's hell for our mind and soul. So unnatural and demanding it consumes us from inside."

[@rowantic6539]

@@comradeblin256 why do you think those megacity's needs parcs?

[@SaltyAsTheSea]

Thats a good way to put it. I just keep telling my therapist life moves too fast but this is what I mean. Living at least in the US I feel like I'm not cut out for this shit. Too much going on for a man whose palms can get sweaty and heart pumping just because of a bad/ intense daydream. Hope that all makes sense and I don't just sound like a pu**y but that's how it be and it's frustrating on the highest of levels.

[@GiggleHertz64]

@@SaltyAsTheSea I don't think that you sound weak at all. You just sound like a normal, sensitive human being. Modern life goes way too fast. It's all grind, grind, move, move, go go go... Toxic productivity all the way through. Little to no room for rest or healing for many because of how much the system demands from us. When you've been traumatized by whatever hells life's put in your way, it makes sense that bad daydreams would put you into flight/freeze mode. I've gotten flashbacks and I get similar results to you - I get anxious, heat flushes to my head and chest, it can feel like I'm about to die or am awash with emotions and sensations from the past. We didn't ask for this, we're not weak because of our immediate bodily responses to the stuff that brings us - or remind us of - pain.

[@RainIndex]

Not even comfortable for our bodies in many cases. Infrastructure sucks in a lot of big cities, built for the car and capitalism rather than for people and community. There are massive streets and avenues everywhere, but not ones where you can have a comfortable stroll to enjoy the evening, instead just an artery for car traffic that is always clogged, noisy and polluted as hell, oh yeah and good luck crossing it cause pedestrians are an afterthought. The idea that the car is the only reasonable form of transport has literally destroyed our cities, making alternative less polluting and healthier methods like walking or cycling nealy impossible. Finding community spaces becomes harder because they are far away, separated by the distances thought for the car and the giant roads that cut through major urban centers. Just think of the toll that takes on both mental and physical health. Anyways, tangetially related urbanist rant over, we deserve better cities.

[@HomoSapien-z5q]

I have adhd and autism. I've had mental health issues for most of my life. I think my chronic depression might be somewhat natural for me but the rest of my mental illnesses have been directly or indirectly caused by me neglecting myself and what I need trying to become like something I'm not (a neutypical). No one directly forced me to do most of it, but I internalized so much of the negative things said to me because of my different behaviour I was convinced acctually being myself wasn't an option in the first place

[@jon.bo_]

hi, this really resonated with me, thank you for sharing

[@argo8276]

Severe depression profoundly affects someone in every aspect of their lives. If it occurs "naturally" its probably not clinical form of depression

[@SentientNebula]

@@argo8276 what are you talking about lmao

[@argo8276]

@@SentientNebula reading again is an option

[@HomoSapien-z5q]

@@argo8276 It's clinical depression, it has ranged from mild to severe for over 10 years. I think it has to do with my adhd because of the lack of dopamine (a natural part of adhd) also being a crucial part of depression. Not all the adhd's fault but I think it's a major part of it

[@superioropinion7116]

Society wants you to take full responsibly for your mental health while at the same time taking no responsibility for f-ing it up in the first place. Honestly,it may be good thing cause you learn some really valuable lessons earlier than any previous generation did (as evidenced by the middle age crisis meme)

[@Seasonal-Shadow_4674]

@@superioropinion7116 who is society here?

[@katium9176]

​@@Seasonal-Shadow_4674 That's an interesting way to challenge someone's argument, again.

[@Seasonal-Shadow_4674]

@@katium9176 I wasnt even challenging, I was just curious. I agree with their argument, sometimes people are referring to specific/different groups of people and/or the system at large when they say society

[@jaughnekow]

@@Seasonal-Shadow_4674 society is we, we are society

[@Seasonal-Shadow_4674]

@@jaughnekow just making sure

[@rimut230]

i wish my therapist understood that i don't just need pills that make me less sad, i need a house and food on the table, free time and a family that doesn't hate me for my queerness, and a future to look forward to. but the world doesn't care, because it's not profitable to care.

[@JohnDoe-yf4io]

I hope you will find peace.

[@skyesmitham9783]

Hey, dude, I understand that feeling completely. Have you tried looking into DBT therapy? I found it to be extremely helpful at achieving the goals you have, even tho I was such a mess at the time I didn’t think I had a single chance of making it. Try researching it if you haven’t, it might be really helpful to you! All the best :)

[@thomasl.6960]

@@rimut230 And that’s the fundamental problem with therapy: the responsibility to get these things is on you. Not on your therapist, and not on society.

[@Motivational_Posters]

Are you seeing a therapist or psychiatrist? Therapists don’t typically prescribe medication. In my practice of therapy, I explore the context of client’s lives, how they got there, and where they would like to go while providing tools that can help distress management and increase homeostasis within their systems.

[@AlbertoGarcia-wd7sc]

​@@thomasl.6960 that's where you're wrong

[@zyzyx4157]

The worst thing about being neurodivergent or mentally ill is that people are so quick to judge you, belittle you, or even hurt you. It’s so easy to be misunderstood because you simply don’t experience the world like most people, therefore others find you strange or off-putting. It’s a horrible predicament, not being able to live the normal life you so desperately want to. I’m glad people don’t understand. I wouldn’t want anybody to experience my existence.

[@Yatukih_001]

The people who keep belittling you or hurting you because you have been given a description as being mentally ill are mentally ill themselves. Normal people do not talk down to people diagnosed with mental illness. People who suffer from narcissism, a recognized mental disorder do.

[@ao_sssan]

this is all I've been going through the past few months, and I don't know why I'm just realizing it. it's truly horrible

[@blackhammer5035]

Be wary of assuming “most people” experience the world the same way. Most people are busy trying to adapt to what they perceive as the standard and did not have a say in defining that standard. How well they appear to cope with it from your perspective may be no more fun than your own struggles with it.

[@GeminiPlatypus]

​@@zyzyx4157 I'm right there with you buddy. Sorry that probably sounded sarcastic. I'm dealing with the same issues and I'm finding it increasingly hard to have hope. All the best to you out there ❤

[@CybernautZero]

One of the issues I have with modern psychiatry is that it is all deficit-based. I am starting to think more along the lines that with what may be called a disorder in some, may actually just be neurodiversity. Maybe we're supposed to have different brains, that function differently. Maybe society shouldn't be "one size fits all" but rather, we should create the kind of society where all kinds of minds are welcome and can thrive.

[@katieandnick4113]

I think humans are all supposed to have the same type of brain, but we’re also supposed to live the way humans lived for 95% of our existence, and we definitely don’t live like that. And by “supposed to”, I mean we’re hardwired to live that way. Our brains and bodies developed to live that way. We can’t last very long living differently, and when you think about it, 12,000 years is practically nothing compared to the 200,000 years humans lived in our current form, prior to the advent of agriculture and domestication. I give the species another 1,000 years, tops.

[@D.J.023]

Nobody with chronic depression, adhd, or any mental illness would agree with you to accept that it’s just neurodiversity and we should embrace it, it’s not fun when everything is 10x harder for you. But yes we absolutely need more kindness and support for each other as humans.

[@Andy101-tm3hz]

I believe asperger's is an invention created by psychiatrists to label people who dress and look weird (society likes to label everything). All humans are neural diverse because all humans have their own perceptions of the world. All people think differently but also think alike because they have certain belief systems. Asperger's is a belief system that can't be proven thru blood work or medical science.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

@@CybernautZero If only it worked that way. But... nope. Be rich, powerful, influential, well-connected, tall, and physically perfect. Else--rare exceptions aside--lifelong schlavery awaits you (99% of the time).

[@jackdaniels4975]

Humans have different sleep patterns, somebody had to be up at 3am to keep the fire going and listen for lions. I do not like mornings, I feel most alive at 2-3am. I regularly and naturally fall into sleeping at 6am even after months of sleeping in a different pattern. Meanwhile therapists: "your sleep schedule is irregular, that's why you're depressed" it's true, society and the people in the medical industry truly don't know how humans work, they just assume.

[@mystiverse]

This turned out great! Always a pleasure to collaborate with you man ✌️❤️

[@cda6590]

Do you think Wittgenstein might have been on the spectrum?

[@zacharyjagodzinski2904]

@@mystiverse I have autism if you ever need a first person account I would love to provide my experience for your thesis!

[@Dain23]

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[@Demirci-g9]

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[@Shepherd-n3b]

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[@Dj-dtw]

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[@Lorelei-z9h]

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[@Dj-dtw]

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[@drowsy7921]

This is well intentioned, but as somebody with OCD, I do rely on medication and therapy to keep myself stable. I've almost killed myself multiple times before I was diagnosed and treated. Knowing what the problem was and getting medical help has greatly helped me not see myself as a monster for the intrusive thoughts I get. Having a supportive network isn't enough. Having friends doesn't make the compulsions go away. Mental illness can be caused by environmental factors, but not all the time. Things like OCD, schizophrenia, psychosis, and others are serious illnesses that cause suffering to those who have it and shouldn't be shrugged off as entirely environmental. In my own case, my OCD is genetic. I was simply born with it. I cannot change my genetics like how one can change their environment.

[@annamayzing1723]

I have 9, DSM-5 disorders. I was diagnosed with 4 since first grade. I’m a unique, electric, highly intelligent person. There is nothing “wrong” with me, I just don’t fit the societal norms. Some of us just CANNOT follow the rules.

[@katieandnick4113]

You should consider not using the language of your oppressors.

[@annamayzing1723]

@@katieandnick4113 barking like a dog is preferred

[@zyzyx4157]

I feel that, I’ve been diagnosed with a lot of things as well, it almost feels like none of them are real. I’m just a complicated person who struggles more than most people. Most will just think they are excuses, or made up. Which I understand they can be used as excuses, but these people don’t understand what it’s like to live with a brain that wants to kill you. I’m glad those people don’t understand. It means they get to live a life i so desperately want, a normal one. The thing about folks with mental illness is we are often very intelligent, and potentially gifted with abilities that most folks do not have. I don’t know which life I’d rather have though. I just want the pain to stop

[@bugjams]

There may be nothing wrong with _you,_ but what of a mentally ill person who thinks touching everyone they see and flinging their spit at people is acceptable? There certainly is a time and place to use the term "mentally ill," I've seen far too many people who were born (or became) living vegetables, or almost like wild animals, due to mental illness. It's also important we have words and labels for things so we can help people who suffer from them. It's great you don't feel like you need your label, or that there's nothing wrong with you, but many people are acutely aware of their mental issues and want to be rid of them.

[@actualgoblin]

​@@bugjamsI cannot follow gender roles, and thats culturally equivalent to child @buse. I'm perfectly ""functional"" in every other capacity, I just don't know how to be a man.

[@katium9176]

So basically: You're still responsible for your mental health, but so is something else that's causing it.

[@justahotdog8430]

@@victorbello4899 how so? if you dont mind me asking

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

@@katium9176 Every single sentient being on the planet (including animals) is influenced by environment, wealth or poverty, societal circumstances, schooling (or lack thereof), physical issues, mental capacities, etc. Some of these are determined at BIRTH, so they're utterly outside of an individual's control. Unfortunately, many toxic "successful" people will claim that the only reason another person is failing or in dire straits... is solely by their own doing. It's utterly ludicrous when tested against logic, statistics, facts, and science, but none of that matters if society agrees with them. "You're a failure because of you" is literally ingrained into mankind as a whole. It isn't true, but that's just how humanity rolls, baby. 💪😎✌️ The solution? Easy: be rich... be powerful... be influential... be connected. 💵⚔️💵 That solves nearly all issues a person might face.

[@whiteknightgfry]

@@Novastar.SaberCombat it is true. you can be born with all those qualities and still be an anxious, neurotic manchild, and this is actually more often than not the case with those born with a silver spoon. the stereotype exists for a reason. the reason is because you dont have to learn to take accountability or control of your life. you beleive yourself to be a victim of circumstances, or that everything will be resolved for you because thats how its always been. you're the one in control of your own cognition and how you proceed in the world. you dont get to blame anyone else but yourself.

[@gulaschnikov5335]

@@whiteknightgfry It is true. I am one in control. But I am not the only one in control and so aren't you. Edit: "Therefore I am also one that is not in control and so is everyone else."

[@Orphoid]

Very true. This was the mentality that saved my life. Blindly taking responsibility for your mental state opens you up to abuse, to be manipulated into agreeing with your mistreatment. Many economic forces pull on these levers. But you are still you. You are still the only one who can help you, for now.

[@desplaza_el.horizonte]

Magical voluntarism perfectly describes the mindset i came to adopt by consuming a lot of self-help content a few years ago. And i'm still discarding it little by little. In my experience it got to an extreme and trying to control for every factor i could for the benefit of my mental health definitely just added another layer of distress to it. Plus, i adopted it _even though_ i was aware of external structural factors being an important source of the problem. It can be a very pervasive mindset.

[@Seasonal-Shadow_4674]

I think there’s so much about mental illness we don’t know and so much that gets dismissed about mental illness. And the only mental illnesses that seem to be talked about the most are anxiety and depression. Like trauma , OCD, BPD, and neurodivergent conditions are being talked about a little more, but not enough, and frankly, there are plenty of obscure mental health conditions, disorders, symptoms that are talked about even less It doesn’t help that people in and outside these communities and fields make gross over simplifications and over generalizations

[@ubik5453]

We get it, Holden Caulfield. You're sad🙄 get over it 😅

[@rimut230]

​@@ubik5453that comes off as rather disrespectful, don't you think?

[@ubik5453]

@@rimut230 I was making a reference to Cather in the Rye, bro. Chill out

[@gero3015]

I have HPPD and honestly it can be pretty isolating considering it's such a rare neurological disorder, but I do try to stay positive and not let it get to me. I've noticed that getting good sleep and getting myself busy on something has for the most part made the visions less troublesome than they were when they intially started

[@isatq2133]

@@ubik5453 sometimes you need to suffer like us to understand. If only.

[@Shlooomth]

Still no mention of thyroid health. It totally blows my mind how literally no one who even talks about how psychology alone is inadequate, still never even says the word “thyroid” even once.

[@soccom8341576]

Thyroid disorders cause massive mood problems. I know someone who's bipolar who has a massive thyroid problem - they have tiny one because most of it was surgically removed. The psychiatrists, counselors, psychologists couldn't connect the dots, so I did my own research.

[@gg_ingy]

What does the thyroid do with mental health? I have Graves disease (it goes into remission with medication, has flared back up mostly due to hormones (after pregnancy baby 1 and after ending breastfeeding baby 2, and also being weakened by a lot of illness that winter. Atm in remission again), and when it is full blown symptomatic, i do get anxious and i'm pissed off faster - obviously, my whole body is sped up and in overdrive. Anyhoo, besides that, i have ADHD, and i have it all the times, regardless of how my thyroid levels are. I'm sure hypo thyroid will make you more down though.

[@cheyhey2170]

people dont talk about it because you should get a physical health-checkup when you feel unusual for some time. germany isnt really "further" when it comes to mental health, but the majority of therapists & psychiatrists ask you if physical things are ruled out etc. thats what we were being told to do in uni atleast.

[@Shlooomth]

@ yes, I’m talking about my doctors too. I had to specifically ask about thyroid health even though I had several symptoms of it AND “comprehensive” blood tests. I have a family history of thyroid cancer and it was only after I mentioned having cold hands that my doctor ordered the tests to confirm I had thyroid cancer. “Just talk to your doctor, idiot” ignores why these videos exist. Smartass.

[@cheyhey2170]

@@Shlooomth as much as im sorry for you having to go through that, this isnt the norm. its such an insanely obvious thing to check, especially since for example in your case there already was a history.. i see the senior-doctors overlook things from time to time at work but nothing as severe as this honestly.. im sorry

[@chrismuratore4451]

I was fired from a job I loved because I requested a mediation with my boss for telling me "that's a 'you' problem" when I failed to produce the results he expected by following the procedures and instructions he gave me. Results he then failed to achieve himself by following the exact same steps. Huh? Isn't that strange?

[@ybouzl2191]

That boss should be fired, too.

[@cebruthius]

Your boss was probably a narcissist or generally somewhere in Cluster B. These people don't do logic, it's not your fault.

[@pinkfuit]

@@cebruthius very curious that this is your response - under a video about the toxicity of the diagnositic model of mental illness. cluster B "disorders" form due to complex trauma, virtually without exception, and such traumas (usually interpersonal neglect during childhood of some kind) are brought upon by the conditions of our society, you know, the point of the video? sorry if i have a tone here, but i have BPD myself and being othered/ called "those people" under a video like this is very odd. the emotion-proneness you are talking about is not a character flaw, it's a defensive biological adaptation that gets built up over years of being in an environment where your feelings don't matter and cannot be "cured" overnight. i'd recommend doing some reading on trauma to broaden your perspective on people who struggle with symptoms you find unpalatable, the book "the body keeps the score" by bessel van der kolk is a great place to start for most people but there are many others.

[@chrismuratore4451]

@@cebruthius I couldn't for the life of me figure out why he was specifically so focused on me, either. I usually tend toward logic and rationale so it was frustrating trying to grasp the situation. I'm just disappointed I was never even given the opportunity to have the remediation.

[@SentientNebula]

It's almost like bosses are all... Bossy. And dicks. That too.

[@bs_blackscout]

Greatly puts into words some thoughts I've had about this very topic before. We can't just place all responsibility and burden of mental health on the individual, some environment factors play a huge role in the worsening or permanence of their symptoms. Any MH professional who ignores this is harming their patient more than anything else. Personally, I'd go as far as to say it's actually abusive as it makes the person question their efforts and put themselves at blame when it isn't the case, worsening their condition.

[@_jamesdphillips]

I’ve been saying this for years. I’m glad the narrative is finally changing!

[@beginnereasy]

Anxiety and depression are conscious responses to life realities. It's positivity that makes the problems go on forever...

[@impossiblefailer2135]

Human existence was, is, and always will be connected to a form of misery. It is a long and harsh journey to realize that the root of most mental disorders is the idea that we have to be the version of ourselves that we so desperately believe in. Sure, our environment was forming the personality that we have now, but it's only a concept that we've built over the years. I believe that when you can let go of this version of yourself that you are building in your mind, you have the potential to reach your "true" self. Pushing it to the place we were born or the family we were born into, the conditions that surround us, will only give us the idea that we cannot change anything in our lives. For me personally, that approach brings a lot of peace. In the past, I had been pushing my mental problems onto others. Now I realize that it was, is, and always will be my own responsibility to take care of my mental health and grow into a fulfilled, happy person. Sure, some of us get rougher starts than others, but in the end, everyone suffers. The question is: how do we move along the path of suffering and find ways to still make the best out of each day?

[@morguenmorguen6862]

Pretty sure the root of my mental illness is whatever quirk of brain chemistry makes it impossible for me to experience joy, buddy

[@impossiblefailer2135]

@@morguenmorguen6862 is that a fact or just an concept that you have been told ? I find it hard to really make a change if I would think like that. You are not just youre brain chemistry ! You have choice ! Choose to make the best out of youre situation and the things that life have been giving you...

[@morguenmorguen6862]

@@impossiblefailer2135 It is a medically verified fact, you fucking buffoon

[@bugjams]

Your advice sounds like woo-woo mysticism nonsense. No offense, but I'm going to trust the doctors and psychologists who've collectively studied this stuff for hundreds of years. What you're describing can also lead to ego death, which is very dangerous for people with mental illness. I'd encourage you to delete your comment or phrase it in a less-direct way so you don't inadvertently send someone down a spiraling path of losing their sense of self.

[@green5260]

​@@impossiblefailer2135uh, we ARE just brain chemistry

[@roxyamused]

I'm autistic, ocd, and adhd. I was once in a hard ocd rumination spiral. My thoughts scared me deeply, my mood was going all over the place so I was told I should go to emergency mental health hospital. I go and they wouldn't admit me into a ward because my rumination about suicide and gender dysphoria will "still be there" because I was current with meds. "We have nothing to do for you, we only get people steady on meds." which was a lie because I had gotten care there before the only thing that changed was that I found out I was autistic and I was visibly trans. They kicked me out with huge guards that were ridiculing me as I was melting down and they wouldn't let me get out of scrubs inside because I was melting down. I had to get dressed in the parking lot. I needed respite and I needed to be under some care because I was a danger to myself. I guess that wasn't good enough? I also suspect that the social worker was a terf (trans exclusionary radical feminist), and many of those ghouls are ableist towards autism too. It was so traumatic. That's the medical model of mental health services "you're on meds, just stop being suicidal we don't waste resources on you." Horrible.

[@Quicksoapy]

6:27 I have autism, this is so true but for some reason wayyy too little people realize that, thank you. Its not an empathy/communicative deficit, its an incompatibility with NT people.

[@ictogon]

If you can't communicate with the majority of the population, I think this counts as a deficit

[@Quicksoapy]

@@ictogon I'd call it a disability but not a deficit, as the world around us is made for neurotypicals, not neurodivergents. There's functionally nothing wrong with ND's.

[@arth8265]

Choosing to not take responsibility doesn't help neither. Problem still exists, even if you choose to throw your hands in the air and shout at clouds. Observations might be correct, but what about solutions? We can't control the way society affects us, so we should forfeit idea of personal responsibility? Or maybe we should still follow personal responsibility in spite of it? I'd feel pathetic if I only look to blame everything around me just to not adopt personal responsibility.

[@TheCAPSLOCKrage]

THANK YOU FOR FINALLY SAYING IT DIRECTLY

[@janedavis1730]

This is BS. Any time I've been in psychosis what i needed was medication. A supportive environment isn't going to make me stop thinking i killed my father.

[@Ecclessia]

This. the video might be right for the people who suffer from some depression, anxiety, adhd kind of stuff, but things like schizophrenia and bipolar are DEFINETLY real and warrant medication and proffessionals

[@whiteknightgfry]

if you can tell whats happening, you can tell yourself its not real, unless you completely lose all sense of self-awareness like its a dream, which doesnt just randomly happen. you can use notes even if that does happen. theres always a solution at the end of the day and you would realize that if you spent a fraction of the effort making excuses for yourself and justifying your behavior because you're a victim of circumstances and you want to throw a pity party all the time.

[@Ecclessia]

@@whiteknightgfry telling yourself it isn't real isn't going to fix all the symptoms of a psychotic episode, medication will, this is like telling someone whose got the flu to think themselves better

[@agalaxyofscars]

Not everything is the same for everyone. Taking meds only masked my psychotic symptoms and made me feel like a zombie, a supportive environment made them livable and manageable without meds.

[@bugjams]

​@@agalaxyofscars Absolutely right, the problem is that this video doesn't have a disclaimer that it's not for everyone. It pretends that it is. Which is honestly quite dangerous thinking. It's bordering on the "just stop feeling depressed!" level of self-help garbage.

[@kalebb4]

This is a good video. Cultural and social aspects of mental health were something we went over in my Intro To Clinical Psychology class as a unit, but really, it is something that is pervasive in every aspect of the field (or at least should be treated as such). A framework I tend to use on this subject in Ken Wilber's AQAL, specifically the quadrants. All experience is a complex mix of the It (Biological), I (psychological and experiential), We (cultural) and Its (institutional). Thinking about the ways these complex factors can affect one another in any field of study is good practice, but it is especially needed in the field of psychology and mental health. People are not just affected by thier biology and psychology, but the cultures and institutions around them; the field is beginning to wake up to this, but it'll take a lot more time and awareness to even really integrate this into the field, let alone implement real solutions that'll help people. So many issues tend to lie at the cultural and societal level, a thing that a system designed only to address the individual really just can't help. It's kind of fucked.

[@kalebb4]

And, to get a little more anecdotal, my experience within the psychiatric institution has been less than ideal (as seems to be the case for many) (and hence my chosen studies). I was a troubled child and teen with a lot going on, as well as being autistic and queer and gender non-conforming (and Black too). Went undiagnosed with Autism as a child, so spent much of my time in my own head to get away from the way the world overwhelmed me. I would be easily agitated and lonely, therefore identified as having behavioral issues, but not 'helped' until my behavior led to expulsion in early middle school. Hospital, and then therapy. It cost money to get therapy, something my mom did not have, but I would be taken away if I did not go, and that was the first issue. The second was that they really couldn't help me. My problems could not be helped at the individual level, but the social and structural; I was lonely and in an overwhelming environment and prone to fantasy for those reasons, not something that could be fixed with pills. But they gave me pills anyways (for schizophrenia... i think it may have messed with my memory), and I got the impression that I just needed to stop 'being so weird' and 'control my emotions' and that was that. I was convinced I was weird or crazy or something, since I was still not diagnosed. They could not address the social and cultural, only saw *me, an individual* as a problem to be solved. That was the only way they could have done it though. That is how this world is currently built. I look back upon that with sadness and a determination to make change, as well as I can anyways. Even if it's only for one person. That will be enough. I hope you're all doing as well as you can.

[@billyLego4855]

Since this discussion has been about the environment that changes mental health. My thing on this is that how people effect people that go through trauma or hurt by the hands of "ordinary citizens" that have no interest, be apathetic and at time callous in their behaviour amongst the agreed group of people that often form narratives, when you think about it, if it was written by some and you watched on the TV, most of the situations are filtered to make them look good and others look like anti-social themes nonsense in their character, accepted but always tripping to say the wrong thing. And always gourded to point out a logical answer. I've seen these TV shows that try to say about life in the uk, heartbeat or other shows or just how people see other people, as not there or just outdated. I seen countless videos on youtube but it always makes other people a straight face agent too the narrtive or a reason why people that want to connect, to imply they are responsible walking away from them. The "fact of life argument" like splatting tape on a crack with water coming out to cover it up, only ignores it, seemingly repeatedly with duck tape of "it's a fact of life argument" when the person themselves has been affected by "the appropriate people" in the governing society. Understand it, but more compliant, although they would do that to someone aswell in they felt uncomfortable, a social unwritten rule is upheld and respected, in all matters and means. "You just don't have self respect." Which only implies others that were responsible and did hurt are not disrespecting others? In the workplace and what has been normalised is a sense of hustle culture. Our mental health is not only residing on our mind itself that came out of nowhere.

[@johnrodgers2018]

This is a wonderful and insightful video. Being a decent and kind individual can have a positive affect on everyone you encounter. Great takeaway

[@ZenHomie]

I'm vibing with this. I do believe there's still a common misunderstanding, even lost in translation in the medical world, with the "taking responsibility for your mental health"... It does appear to be dismissive of external environments, but I believe it does take into account the navigating the external world and keeping your Boat Afloat is only something that you can do.

[@Ouroboros542]

Im taking a module on Merleau-Ponty later this year for my masters degree, this video couldnt have been timed better. As some who suffers with mental health issues I find an approach that attempts to account for concrete lived experience fascinating.

[@ronrice1931]

Absolutely, when it comes to phenomenology, Merleau-Ponty beats Husserl and Heidegger hands down.

[@skriblzshade7996]

I wrote this as a reply to another comment but I’d like to widen the chances of someone hearing what I have to say! Sometimes it seems like the people around me have similar issues. But not because we all somehow have ADHD or depression etc, but because the environments, cultures and policies a majority of us grew up in are flawed and cause a widespread burn out. people who COULD make it out in the world simply can’t, not because they are broken but because the system is, causing humans to feel like they have to bend a certain way to fit in to what is just artificial, made up, and all around limiting, more so as the years going on. I was diagnosed with ADHD and have been dealing with that kind of mind my entire life, although I struggle with day to day things, it doesn’t mean I am just broken, I, just like every other individual, work and function differently(maybe in different aspects and/or to different degrees, but still.) The fact that the system tricks everyone into thinking they need to be “fixed” when if anything it’s the un-accommodating and limiting ways that the world around us is. I struggle, yes, but it makes everyone’s lives harder when they’re forced to believe there’s something fundamentally wrong with them, and I honestly hate to see that affect literally everyone around me.

[@dittohasadhd]

So this sounds like we're talking about mental health through the social model of disability. Am I picking up on what you're putting down?

[@dylanrigby-crawley7908]

Pretty much. Its focusing on social and evniromental factors in combinations of biological or in this sense physical abnormalities/disorders and not reducing it to just that . Physical. Such mindsets have been on the rise as mental health and in just general practitioners have gotten better at understanding their fields.

[@josemarialaguinge]

This comes handy during my current existencial crisis.

[@Anti-CornLawLeague]

I wish OCD was a myth. But the shit I go through when off Luvox and how content I am when on it are like night and day. If it’s a placebo (and maybe it is), it’s astonishing how well it works.

[@drowsy7921]

Same. I almost died because my OCD went untreated for so long. I've had it since I was little and only got diagnosed at 17. Before that I didn't get the proper treatment which only made everything worse.

[@Zainwater]

U do not understand how much i enjoy ur videos Keep going man!

[@camtheratman]

When I tell my group therapist that Im worried about the state of the world and what people will do to me and my fellow trans friends if bigots come into power, esp in America, and she says "be happy about the rights you have now" its hard to not feel discouraged and frustrated. I feel like American culture is so hyper individualistic that it broke everyones brains, a lot of therapists will respond to anxiety and sadness about global issues they will say "just pay attention less" but how can I? We live in an interconnected world where we cant just turn off the TV and not pay attention, I feel like I have moral obligation to be informed, even though its exhausting and taxing. I was even told by a psychiatrist to not pay attention to my mom being unfaithful, to just not even think about it even though Im living in it. Im not sure how different this is in different countries Id love to hear others experiences from around the world, but I know at least in America the average brain is so broken by hyper individualism it cant even comprehend someone wanting a community for support.

[@TheNinToaster]

many therapists simply do not understand the externalities of being a minority. Specially if you're a member of multiple minorities.

[@peytonandrus6566]

Yes!! The serotonin hypothesis of depression and anxiety also has no clinical evidence despite widespread belief

[@2299momo]

I've watched about 1 minute of this video and then read some comments, and I already feel that it, and some commenters, miss a crucial point about the idea that happiness is solely your own responsibility. I'm not sure who denies that mental health issues are shaped by a culture or your environment in general, but every individual does have the power to change their enviornment in some way. Not to say that is easy, fair, or to trivialize the difficulty that can be wrapped up in a statement like that. If your environment is runing your mental health, it would be great if the environment was more tolerant; but you can only *hope* for the things around you to change, but you can always *control* your own actions such as moving someplace else, finding new friends, or reassessing your priorities. There is always a step you can take towards being happier. Regardless of where the inital distress comes from. If you do not take happiness into your own hands, and insist to yourself that you have the power to influence it, then your joy is at the whims of the factors around you; and that lack of control is going to further stress your mind and body.

[@Frodo1000000]

@@2299momo sometimes u can't: move someplace else, find new friends, reassess your priorities. My uncle lives as a schizophrenic at his family's since forever. He's 38 now. He's not self-aware enough to make a change, moving somewhere he'd end up with wrong kind of people and/or doing drugs, and is absolutely blocked towards any change. There is a line beyond which "you are powerful" kind of self-talk doesn't work anymore - be it coz ur schizo, or maybe you're depressed.

[@vgrepairs]

Bro... dont bring up a random minor anecdote as a counter to a general claim. "SHOES ARE BAD BECAUSE I HAVE NO LEGS" is not an argument ​@@Frodo1000000

[@whiteknightgfry]

people have to stop trying to control themselves and instead listen to themselves. straining your body in the middle of a lake is going to make you sink faster. you have to relax to let your body float to the surface, to gracefully and efficiently paddle to shore. it is an art, and the nuance of this art is actually sometimes more difficult than "trying harder". But most of the time it's easier, and we have a misconception that easy means bad.

[@vaporeonice3146]

@@2299momo I think that I broadly agree with you, but I also had a strong reaction to your comment and I can imagine why other people might as well. I think my main points of disagreement in what you seem to be saying (which you didn’t explicitly say, but I read it as something you might have been saying, and other people might as well) are that 1) the “end point” of taking responsibility for your happiness is ACTUALLY BEING HAPPY (or “not mentally ill,” or whatever), and 2) that people SHOULD be taking steps to be “happier.” You may or may not agree with those points. If you do, the issue with point 1 is that it minimizes the actual impact of one’s environment. The fact that you can make things better for yourself in some way or another doesn’t imply that, if you do those things, you will no longer be depressed or anxious, or that you’ll arrive at a point of being content. Almost no one is content without stable housing, and whether you have stable housing is overwhelmingly influenced by factors outside of your control (with a big one being “what country you live in,” and for people without stable housing, moving to another country generally isn’t an option). Trans kids living with parents who don’t accept them are GOING to be miserable. They can make a plan for how they’ll move out and that can give some comfort and hope for the future, but until they have the means to actually leave, they’re gonna feel pretty fucking bad a lot of the time. The issue with point 2 is that people generally need their hurt and pain about their environment to be validated before they have any motivation to make change. And no one can really decide for anyone else what the RIGHT thing to do is. I’m a therapist (who has also dealt with mental illness myself), so if anyone is societally authorized to decide what’s “mentally healthy,” it’s me. But what I genuinely believe after seeing all the people I’ve seen is that I can’t judge whether change is the right thing for anyone. I can tell someone what the consequences of changing or not changing are (and give them a “prognosis” of how their life could reasonably be expected to change), but I can’t decide what’s best for them. Change can take a lot of effort and discomfort, and like I said, the end point might still be really hard, even if it is “better.” If someone isn’t willing to make changes, there are lots of good reasons for that, not the least of which is that it feels shitty to have to put a lot of effort into fixing problems you didn’t cause. I don’t begrudge anyone who chooses to keep things how they are. I think in some ways, we all do that. There are a million things any of us could change in our lives to be “more happy,” but we only have so much energy for change, and the potential benefits may not seem worth it. For some people, making the conscious choice NOT to change, and recognizing that they’re valid for feeling what they feel in their environment, is the most helpful and stress-relieving thing to do, on a neurobiological level. You might agree with everything I’m saying; as I said, I’m more responding to the emphasis of your post rather than the specific points themselves. Or you may disagree entirely. For me, I think what you shared is accurate and valid, but is only part of a bigger picture. So hopefully what I shared helps expand that picture a bit.

[@romanovrex]

Yes, Merleau Ponty! Hard to read, but keeps on giving. I believe phenomenology is most useful way of thinking to arrise in the last hundred years.

[@produccionesdebajosrecurso7451]

Yeah. For example. I did psilocibyn and lots of thoughs were changed, through finding love, and nature, which doesnt seem like just serotonin or dopamine. Then after, i got depressed again, and get into Antidepressant (MAOIs) which allowed me to put depression in remission and reach those previously formed with mushroom thoughts. Now im Happy so far, like I never been. Anxiety here and there, autistic shit here and there, but no dissociation anymore, no dpdr or brain fog or SCT, or too much fucking ADHD. I healed trauma, I increased neurotransmitters. I increased neurotransmitters, I healed trauma. Its not simple, its not a one way or another, its a constant conciousness of the being and the sorroundings; to realize how beautiful life can be. Peace

[@miraadi97]

Finally psych phenomenology, Thanks ❤ and A Collab 😊.

[@menendez6218]

As someone with a neurological sleep disorder my experience with this has been the complete opposite. When i first got diagnosed the specialist (a psychologist) made me feel really understood when it came to physical nature of my struggles (gps have always dismissed it as just anxiety/stress) but then when i started to struggle even more trough treatment, she told me she couldn't understand why i was struggling to go to my (mostly physical exhausting) classes and tried to blame it on my mental health/environment. An other common criticism is over medication but the only thing ive ever been prescribed for this in my entire life is melatonin, 4th times's the one right? I kinda wish my experience where that of what you described in the video :/

[@vaporeonice3146]

Thanks for sharing another perspective! I’m a psychologist and it’s helpful for me to remain grounded in the fact that sometimes physical things are going on and we just don’t know what they are. I aim to pretty thoroughly assess what someone’s actual environment/stressors are and see if those would reasonably be expected to cause what I’m seeing, and encourage folks to seek medical assessment (and second opinions if they’re told it’s nothing). But I’ve heard of enough horror stories of doctors who couldn’t find the problem and just attributed it to stress that I never really trust a doctor’s conclusion that everything’s fine. We don’t understand nearly enough about the body, and there are way too many undiagnosed/misdiagnosed neurological, autoimmune, and other physical conditions for me to take a doctor’s assessment that everything’s fine at face value. I wish more medical providers had the humility to say when they just don’t know what’s going on, rather than saying that everything’s fine or just attributing everything to stress.

[@bugjams]

Yup, this video is utter trite. Mental illnesses definitely exist. I might be unsubscribing from this channel, as it's quickly veering down the creek of mystical anti-science flattery. Imagine if "mental illness" in this video was replaced with "sickness and viruses." They'd sound like an anti-vaxxer. I can't trust their videos anymore.

[@lynnboartsdye1943]

On the part about material items regulating our emotions. So I’m autistic/adhd and as a teen I found the constant noise of my Highschool overstimulating, I didn’t really know about sensory overload at the time so what I did to combat this was to always have an mp3 player on me so I can listen to music that drowns out the world. Whenever the earbuds stopped working or the mp3 player died I’d be riddled with anxiety and panic until I was able to obtain a new one and redownload my tunes. While I don’t do this anymore as an adult (maybe my tolerance has gotten better?) I definitely notice whenever I’m emotionally distressed I go to either the internet or grab a snack to regulate and numb the feelings. I completely agree with the main point of environmental and cultural impacts influencing our mental wellness alongside our own independence in the matter, growing up I was told my autism was fake or I was lying about my struggles by ableist people in my life and while I still struggle with aspects of my well being. now that I’m away from the environment of people who were not open to listening to my struggles and surrounded by people who deal with the same things I do it’s become more manageable.

[@BL-sd2qw]

I wish more people knew about the neurodiversity paradigm, and social psychology, decolonial psychology, critical, political, of liberation, communal, etc.

[@creeperFIN123]

My father was Finnish (deceased) and he was physically and mentally abusive. He learned most of his parenting from his post war upbringing (born 47). In Finland we have obligatory military service. For me happens to be this environment makes me unable to eat and sleep. And i was temporarily dismissed. Never gotten any help despite seeing some professionals, but they are preoccupied checking if im good for work or army and even when i paid 300€ for a psychiatrist to see me she offered me meds halfway the first and only meeting and told me to man up in life. What a s**t show.

[@s3rj81]

I was an extreme people pleaser, to the point I have lost my sanity, and especially my beautiful facial structure and body. I worked and worked, fell on my head, gone limp, and kept working just out of fear to be judged as lazy... I destroyed my body because I wanted to punish my self. Since that fall I am not the same. What pisses me off the most is that all doctors told me I am fine, there are worst cases. No solutions, no medications, just some cheap antidepressant that didn't even help a bit.

[@madeleinemoreland277]

this is why i studied social work and not just psychology--to be a counselor and create policy change

[@linnealager6146]

Thank you. I love what you do

[@rickwyant]

No mention of Thomas Szasz who wrote the book of the same name as your video title?

[@johnobrien8773]

As a Type 1 Bipolar person I like to borrow the term neuro-typical because it points to the rest of the world as the ones with the problems while not even subjecting ourselves to classification. Something to be tolerated at worst and at best ignored. I literally hear my inner valley girl respond negatively to her lesser, "Typical."

[@gwengus2310]

It's really frustrating how quickly people can view you as crazy if you don't perfectly fit a diagnostic criteria. I'm trans and have OCD, but I only sought treatment for my OCD once I aquired a prescription for my hormones. Gender dysphoria and OCD are still very misunderstood, even by clinicians, so I couldn't risk having a doctor believe that my very visceral and complex need to change my hormonal biology was some sort of manifestation of intrusive thoughts, even though it's known that people with OCD are often aware that their thinking is irrational, and we very rarely act on these thoughts. Professionals will deny you of your bodily autonomy if they believe that any part of your brain is suboptimal, or that your thinking is even slightly delusional, and it's really upsetting that people who are suffering often need to be strategic with their approach to seeking help.

[@thenightwatchman1598]

imagine denying you are crazy yet saying you are trans and OCD in the same breath. im depressed because ill i see in place of what subjective things i took for granted is nothing but an empty void were anything goes and no one gave me a single reason to look away or even i if its possible for me to pull myself out of it.

[@actualgoblin]

​@@thenightwatchman1598 You can be diagnosed with gender dysphoric disorder and OCD. They don't cancel each other out.

[@hecanseeme8210]

“Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” Some things in life are bad They can really make you mad Other things just make you swear and curse When you're chewing on life's gristle Don't grumble, give a whistle And this'll help things turn out for the best And... Always look on the bright side of life If life seems jolly rotten There's something you've forgotten And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing When you're feeling in the dumps Don't be silly, chumps Just purse your lips and whistle - that's the thing And... Always look on the bright side of life For life is quite absurd And death's the final word You must always face the curtain with a bow Forget about your sin Give the audience a grin Enjoy it - it's your last chance anyhow [Chorus] So always look on the bright side of death (Whistle) A-Just before you draw your terminal breath (Whistle) [Verse 3] Life's a piece of shit (Oooh) When you look at it Life's a laugh and death's the joke, it's true (Oooh) You'll see it's all a show (Oooh) Keep 'em laughin' as you go Just remember that the last laugh is on you (Oooh) And... [Chorus] Always look on the bright side of life!

[@terevaldas]

I love how you showed the Netherlands when you mentioned autism

[@WolfGauntlet]

I'm responsible for taking care of my own illness, I'm not responsible for you making it harder to take care of.

[@ngrace11]

6:44 Yes. This has been my experience. 95% of social interaction is guesswork based on a patchwork of confusing non-verbal communication, social cues, and the expectation to infer meaning or “read between the lines” in a conversation. It boils down to having a different, more direct communication style from the majority of people (i.e., non-autistic people).

[@ShinyHaunter666]

Thank u so much man

[@proprgent]

This might help ones mental health: Combine - - maintain focus on a repeated sound and an image, only in the mind - breathe full and steady inhales and exhales only through the nose - if possible, allow the physical sensations of difficult emotions to fulky run their course if they arise. To help process the emotion - it helps to avoid expectation from this method - its encouraged to practice 5-10 minutes every 2-3 hours.

[@spamburner9303]

Going into this video, drunk, tearing up(tears in my eyes), not sure if I wish to continue. Holy heck I should've followed advice and not gotten high on alcohol whilst on antidepressants. Lets see whether the coin flip makes my mental health better or worse!.. :3

[@spamburner9303]

If anyone can tell me a better word for tearing up, please reply to this comment. I am begging you.

[@MyceFunGai]

Absolutely brilliantly insightful

[@ytsharkstop]

The content of this video reminds me a lot of Whatifalthist’s video “The Psychological Black death”

[@JonModham]

discussing my own perspective, I always focus on the diagnosing health service, a complete role reversal of the doctor patient cliche.

[@TheMadeupNoise]

This was so good

[@LeahIsHereNow]

These doctors label everything. We are all original. There is no need to label every single nuanced behavior and make it into something nefarious. Also, what if schizophrenic people just see things and hear things that are outside of the spectrum that most people can see and hear things? They might be the sanest among us. I think it’s pertinent to learn from each other. Not label each other. Not demonize each other. Not stigmatizes each other. That shuts down any learning opportunities because once you label someone as this or that, you stop listening because you think you already have them figured out. I personally think that psychiatry is going to go down as well as leeches for bloodletting. I think they will be made fun of and laughed at for eternity for trying to classify everybody. It’s preposterous.

[@kestrel.01]

Funny that you mention bloodletting. I have been thinking for a while now that the modern understanding of psychology is about equivalent to the strange and barbaric medical practices of the past such as bloodletting, or hacksaw amputations before anesthesia. Society thinks itself so advanced because we have computers and rocket ships, but just looking around I truly feel that in so many we are still in the dark ages. We are utterly clueless about what it means to be human and we desperately cling to any explanation that lets us evade that creeping feeling of uncertainty. If one looks closely at reality you'll find that it is truly miraculous, yet also a kind of cosmic horror beyond human comprehension. I'm reminded of a quote from Martin Luther King Jr: "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

[@zyzyx4157]

@@kestrel.01this is what I’ve been preaching. I’m not invalidating people’s experiences. I’ve been diagnosed with at least 7 different mental disorders. But at a certain point it starts to feel like none of it is real. They’re just labels trying to categorize us into groups so the masses can pretend they have us “figured out.” People love to slap a label on something and say, “that’s it, now I’m going to treat you accordingly” as if everyone with a certain disorder is the same. It can become an excuse for others to berate, belittle, and discriminate against those battling mental issues. Everybody’s mental health is affected by so many different factors, genetic, external, self inflicted, or simply just having a brain that doesn’t operate properly. Not all the people with a certain diagnosis are created equal. The other thing, is certain mental health conditions are exacerbated or *caused* by smart phone and social media addiction. Many people self diagnose autism these days, and manipulate a psychologist into diagnosing them. It’s almost like the label of “autistic” makes them feel special, or unique in some way. Then they start displaying symptoms simply because social media trends have told them how to act. Having these labels makes it easy for people to abuse them for personal gain. Social media has caused complex social issues, especially in young people. But rather than confront this reality, many get an autism or adhd diagnosis, which waters down those who’s brains *actually* work differently than most. I think there needs to be more conversation about phone/social media addiction and the effects it has on young minds. Slapping a label of “autism” makes people feel better about their addiction, it makes them feel special. When in reality all their issues stem from frying their brain cells with a cell phone. I was diagnosed with adhd at 5, and psychologists also said they thought I had “something else” at that time. I was always different, had special counselors in school, special interests and talents. But I also have to keep in mind that maybe my neurodivergency portrays more outwardly. Idk. Life is so complex, like you said. Psychiatry and psychology are just templates, nothing more. I think the best psychologists should recognize a diagnosis is merely a tool to obtain the best available treatment. My first psychiatrist actually refused to diagnose me, saying that they were just labels. A lot of people will get diagnosed and start displaying symptoms subconsciously. The human mind is infinitely more complicated than any description we can come up with.

[@actualgoblin]

​People who complain about fakers. How do you know you're not faking it? How are you so sure that everyone else is? I don't understand this kind of self-superiority.

[@jamesmoore5630]

I am 63, and I retired at 46 to become a Monk Oblate and to direct props and special effects at the longest running passion play in North America. My church keeps me on the right path, and I told my fellow play directors about my Aspergers syndrome and to please be patient with me. I am an actor and have emulated all the mental illnesses that the medical boards say are abnormal, and none of the characters came naturally for me!!! LoL 😵‍💫 So, maybe at 25 a therapist might have been beneficial but not at 63.

[@Oceangrace90]

One of the most important videos i've watched on mental health, modern psychiatry is from a non-professional. Basically sums up how our society is today. Thank you🫶

[@kayasarangelo9663]

Can I humbly request for a video about hook ups and hook up culture? p.s your videos have actually saved me- you’re doing good work here (:^]

[@AeciusthePhilosopher]

I’m reminded of the distinction between impairment and disability in disability ethics, where impairment is whatever might physically limit you and disability is how you are (negative) affected by it due to how the world around us is set up.

[@Absurdyssey2002]

I love your videos

[@nathanlevesque7812]

If lifestyle diseases can be recognized then I don't see why environmental illnesses can't. Acceptance is powerful, but somehow it's impossible where I live to get a therapist that acknowledges the role of my garbage life in mental health. It's all just patronizing, gaslighting, double binds, and coaching us to give a more positive mood-test scores. Ever more elaborate ways of telling people to just relax and feel better are somehow supplanting anything approaching therapy.

[@whiteknightgfry]

you sound like you already have the key to the lock. why are you even going to therapy if you know what youre talking about more than dedicated mental health professionals?

[@nathanlevesque7812]

@@whiteknightgfry No idea what you're trying to say, but mental health professionals don't run our system. Bureaucrats choose the cheapest option. Garbage rolls down hill. They used to actually provide real therapy. That's partly how I know the difference.

[@bbrizzee]

Awesome thank you thank you thank you.

[@joesdocs]

You nailed it!!

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

After 30+ years on this planet, I don't think I have EVER met a single individual who is or has been mentally healthy. Not one. All of them have had some serious issues, some of which will obviously never be resolved. That's just the way it is. THINK ABOUT IT: broken, imperfect humans breed *other*, equally imperfect and fractured fellows and ladies. Accept it. Chances are... the more you believe that you are "healthy", the LESS you actually are. Reflection is key, and it's unlikely that most humans possess even a bloody shadow of such an important yet rare skill.

[@Yatukih_001]

I have. I have met lots of them. I just do not call everyone I meet crazy.

[@ao_sssan]

No. you can't convince me that this is normal, and everyone experiences it. you can't convince me everything is supposed to be this difficult and irritating.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

@@ao_sssan Automatic denial is one of the primary signs of megalomaniacal narcissism.

[@actualgoblin]

​@@Novastar.SaberCombat I've been evaluated for narcissistic personality disorder 5 times, I don't have it. I have avoidant personality disorder, and normies without medical degrees think that me not talking to them means that I have some sort of superiority complex.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

@@actualgoblin To be clear, I wasn't referencing you at all. I don't know you; you simply inserted yourself into this thread and decided to make it about you. Which, btw--out of pure coincidence--is a sign of megalomaniacal narcissism. 🙄

[@ZJStrudwick]

I have depression and anxiety because my head is fucked up, it's nobody's fault, not me or anyone else, just the struggles that i face with my inner demons.

[@tommbekkanimators]

"Mental health, mental health, there's no greater virtue held in this crazy world, It's more than a little bit absurd." - father john misty

[@s.o.m.e.o.n.e.]

Sisyphus 55, my therapist, thank you for your videos

[@alejandroq.8494]

Clinging on to my mental stability is such an exhausting undertaking in todays society

[@adabsurdum5905]

This one is easy. "Mental illness" is whenever i make my boss or my girlfriend upset and they yell at me to go get my brain fixed 😂

[@Alf22374]

"All lives won't matter until Black Lives do." --Ronald McDonald

[@LibertyDino]

Categorizing for therapists to understand patterns is fine. Treating mental issues not similar to an open wound/injury however is absolutely toxic. We have the data to know that environment is THE biggest factor when it comes to mental health. Yet we still have a running paychological system completely based in behaviorism which isnscientifically just incorrect.

[@geralldus]

Instead of relying upon traditional external structures for stability and mental health we now seem to rely upon our idea of mental illness itself for that structure.

[@schoolneverteach]

I don't think institutions think that mental health issues r issues residing in the brain, as the psychological and physiological work hand in hand. One example is back pain... the pain makes one feel down. Feeling down makes one not care about good posture, thereby leading to physical issues like back pain.

[@malcolmwatt7386]

It's because we are infinitely complex beings in an infinitely complex universe. However, mental illness is about the disruption of the unseen order of infinite complexity. These disruptions are caused by trauma. These traumas are from multiple sources.

[@muggish19]

Buddhism and Stoicism would beg to differ

[@Maxmaxmax63]

To think that modern psychiatry is wholly focused on the biological, and not the biopsychosocial, is fallacious. Strawman.

[@Sigma.Infinity]

The phenomenological psychopathology approach sounds like it has a very large overlap with Gestalt therapy, also a phenomenological approach which began in the early to mid 20th century. I have studied the latter but have never heard of the former, as far as I remember. 2:42 and 3:01 sound as though they are talking about Gestalt therapy, they are that similar. However, Gestalt doesn't focus on clinical disorders explicitly.

[@gowrirao7626]

Vipassana is a key tool that helped me figure this out? My constant reactions to the root cause of misery- thoughts- was leading to a chain of thoughts and mental volitions that were inhibiting me from seeing my own actions and the consequences. I would definitely recommend anyone who feels stable enough to try a course out or in the least, read up about the theory and procedure behind this.

[@mulualemtekle6094]

loved it!

[@Ouranos369]

Great video 😊

[@wadejacobs2011]

I have double depression. I have always know that situations play into it. Terrible job and no close relationships for 13 years have fueled it. So now that we know this information, how do I find my scaffolds? What happens now that we have this information? How does this aid someone like me? The video doesn’t say anything about the “what now and how?”

[@__-tz6xx]

Gwen Stefani sang about bannanas and turned the world to the dark timeline. It isn't mental illness but the dark timeline from Gwen Stefani.

[@kingxerjsaeg]

Nah. It was Harambe what messed it up.

[@bigridge717]

@@__-tz6xx yes

[@ToddWight]

The brain is a magnificent organ that reacts to the world but also interacts with and changes the outside world. To neglect that interaction and look only at one side of the equation is a profoundly limited view. Humans evolved for millions of years in an environment and social structure that has changed so much more rapidly than it ever has in the past.

[@acacacacacacaccaca7666]

I don't agree that every issue has a solution and I see people with that mindset as either trying to sell me a one cure all concoction or people who just want to put some sheets over anything inconvenient to cover it

[@rich7292]

Physical health is the body performing optimally. Mental health is the mind performing optimally. You can be born with congenital or acquired problems that hinder performance, and can act a way to enhance or mitigate hindrance or exacerbate it.

[@billyb4790]

The mind or the brain? Maybe that's the crucial difference here.

[@ScipiPurr]

That begs the question to me, "what does 'optimal' mean?" and how does one measure performance against it? How we operate within any society is bounded against that societies values, cultural beliefs, institutions, language semantics, etiquette, etc. All of which are far more arbitrary than is ever presumed and can change over time. If someone isn't able to perform optimally against any definition of those terms, and yet are only so because of a societal barrier, we can't really say that brain is intrinsically flawed. While one can sometimes act in a way to mitigate, say, psychological disability, it isn't always feasible or even particularly effective to do so. A shift in cultural attitudes and rules can have a greater positive effect by eliminating the conceptual basis of many current conditions

[@RussianPrimeMinister]

@ScipiPurr Well, I consider optimal to be how well my mind allows me to act according to my morals, ethics, and principles. I suffer from both Borderline Personality Disorder and Bipolar Disorder. I act in ways I would rather not more than I care to admit, because my emotional centers are severely maladusted. Therapy and medicine has helped, but decades of undiagnosed and unmedicated manic episodes does things to your brain that don't get better. To me, optimal would have all of that stop and the folded neurons opened back up and firing normally again. I would feel feelings at a standard level and react more kindly and calmly to stress and aggravation. There is absolutely such a thing as optimal in my case, and currently no way for me to feasibly obtain it.

[@lkyuvsad]

@@RussianPrimeMinister that is the least problematic definition of “optimal” mental health I’ve read. Thanks.

[@ubik5453]

I sense a Robert Sapolsky video in the future, wink wink 😉

[@carss829]

gonna show this video to everybody i know

[@sphinx1590]

so in other words, phenomological psychopathology is dialectical materialism applied to psychology

[@whiteknightgfry]

this video is a blind regurgitation of marx which is also just a slightly informed regurgitation of phenomenology of spirit, which is a grand synthesis of philosophers in a time before philosophy was designed for mass export and consumption.

[@skyesmitham9783]

Guys, please, what you’re looking for might be a good, well qualified DBT therapist that you vibe with!!! I suggest researching the therapy techniques to see if you think if they’d be right for you in this case. It genuinely has set me on a path to a better life when I didn’t think I’d even be alive by now! If it works for you, look into if your insurance can cover any DBT therapists in your area and see if you can get referred to one!