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IMO people have historically been not talking nearly enough about mental health. I think everyone should be seeing a therapist regularly, mentally ill or not. T
by asdff 4y ago
IMO people have historically been not talking nearly enough about mental health. I think everyone should be seeing a therapist regularly, mentally ill or not. The demands of society are stressful and people are expected to just put up with it and not ever have room to be anxious or sad. Most psychologists I've spoken with also have poor views of the psychiatric approach to a lot of mental health issues. Psychologists favor actually working with you and developing internal strategies to protect yourself long term such as cognitive behavioral therapy, whereas psychiatrists have a tendency to talk little and send you home with a prescription versus leaving that as an option of last resort.
- digitalsankhara 4y agoPlease accept an upvote for this wonderful comment. My experience bears out your view. Whilst there is good stress - the sort that can make us feel alive, the majority is harmful to a lot of people. I've long felt there is an epidemic of stress which I think accounts for a host of poor outcomes for many, many people and society in general. I wish I had the ability to describe it more fully myself but my thinking on this is not fully formed given it must involve sociology, culture, politics, work, family, education and philosophy etc. In fact the whole fabric on the way we live our lives and why. I think the foundations for possible solutions have been set by many cultures. Chinese, Japanese and Greek philosophies in particular are, of course, practised by a lot of people, myself included. Ultimately, I feel human evolution will be through the mind and perhaps generations, hundreds of years in the future, will look back at this time in horror the same way we may look back to when leg amputations were carried out with no anaesthetics.