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Why is it people seem to feel I should be happy beyond the shortest little glimmers? The world sucks, it's constantly getting worse... It seems that being *happy* outside of the duration of a situation that brings happiness is just delusion :x
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I find the idea of meds and therapy to enable such lasting positive outlook to just be wrong in today's world. At least for myself.
It's changing me to accept the world is a terrible place. That just seems horrible :x
Sad - Unpopular Opinion on Mental Health
@IrisKalmia What happens at a therapist's office doesn't change you directly, it just gives you the tools to effect change on yourself. A good therapy session will leave you with new ways of thinking about things you're stuck on.
Most psych meds just help objectify emotional impulses so you can consider them instead of letting them consume and control you. Those change you, sure -- but only to give you more control over yourself.
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@IrisKalmia Choosing to transition is an action heavily suggested by therapists as a means by which to dramatically improve mental health, though. Gender transition is literally mental health therapy.
Choosing to seek therapy to address other mental health concerns are pretty much doing the same thing in a different context.
It doesn't matter if the world is getting worse or better if your mental health sabotages your attempts to improve your life and the lives of others.
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I don't like the modern glorification of happiness either. I feel that it's an artifact of consumerism and that it ignores the complexity of humanity for a simple dichotomy of 'better' mental states.
At the same time, I don't think it's a bad thing to seek to be able to control those mental states. As long as your interest & agency is preserved.
I don't think that analogy is very fair to Mawr...
But I also went off psychotropics for the same reasons.
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@mawr That doesn't really change my point of it's investing resources into tools to change myself when the world is falling apart and becoming somehow even more hostile to me.
It feels an awful lot like the argument that it's better to never transition so to avoid harassment and loss of 'potential'.
I only really see one argument against that: The world can/will continue to get worse, and my function is already degraded by my response to it... Which almost feels fitting for how things are?