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The profession as a whole is profoundly hostile to any serious considerations of mental health, and it’s going to take many more suicides before even the smalle

• genewitch 3y ago
  humanity as a whole is profoundly hostile to any serious considerations of mental health. Dr. Drew once agreed with a rant by cohost adam carolla along the lines of (this is a whisper transcription. blame me for mistranscriptions, idc) "It just doesn't make any sense to me. What's so bizarre in our culture, if you'd broken your leg when you were a kid and you needed a few years of physical therapy, you'd get it. You'd be running on it, and by the way, people would be applauding your great commitment that you go out and work out every day on your leg, and you make sure that you're going to overcome that problem, and you're going to get back up on skis again and whatever. The same thing is true with our brain, and somehow because it's our brain, no, no, no. Sorry. We'll have none of that. What would [...] tell you to do? Oh, he'd say just decide to change. You just gotta decide to change. You gotta get up, you gotta dust yourself off, you gotta take a long look in the mirror, and you gotta decide to change. I can't change for you, and all the people wishing you'd change around you aren't gonna make you change. There's only one person that can change your life, and that person's name is [...]. You want to lose weight, you're gonna have to burn more calories, and you're gonna... "
  • kingkawn 3y ago
    All true. I think doctors as possessors of the monopoly on health spending are uniquely positioned to fuck the whole society up with their own blindness to monumental aspects of health