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Mental health professionals rarely allow you to talk about the socioeconomic factors too
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Psychology works off of “norms.” So they don’t lock you up for believing in sky daddies and they can’t treat society’s economic system.
My therapist (who has stated she will join the revolution when it kicks off) and psychiatrist know that our system sucks ass but they have to try to help me cope with that.
in my experience metal health professionals talk explicitly about the externalities that are affecting you
stabilising your life is the first step to getting better
so i think saying this is not the case is nonsense
But they could still explain those "norms". A lot of people identify systemic issues as personal inadequacies because there's been a deliberate effort to make people internalize the shortcomings of the system. I imagine it would be a sort of a cathartic release to know there's nothing wrong with you and it's the systemic pressures that make you feel that way.
Are there any scientific studies on this? Learning about these problems does unusually not improve your situation in any meaningful way on its own, but might also lessen your willingness to deal with that system.
Now that's just the crazy talking, here have some more meds and oh by the way have you tried CBT? Let's reframe those thoughts...
Like I can't tell you how many times I've described this as gaslighting and people tell me that's not true because medical gaslighting doesn't exist. Oh please...