Comic Strips
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Rules
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😇 Be Nice!
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🏘️ Community Standards
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🍿 Moderation
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Web Accessibility
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It comes from a place of love, but yeah.
Unfortunately, also all-too-possible to slip in to self-righteousness, evangelism, etc.
Therapists are treated like they’re supposed to be miracle workers. You’re experiencing some sort of mental health struggle? Just go see a therapist, because they know how to make your mind magically better. If it doesn’t work, it’s because you aren’t trying hard enough.
I spent years and thousands on therapy to realize that my problem is that I have zero support system, and have been always viewed as disposable by my family. I’m awkward, probably autistic, but was born female so never got diagnosed - just tortured in the “troubled teen industry.” I’m queer, so I’m not really a human being where I live.
Therapy doesn’t fix those things.
well.. therapy absolutely helps you figure out your needs as an autistic person (complete with a real diagnosis) and helps you develop safe coping strategies for this and being queer in a hostile place.
A good should help you build a real support system and protect your self-identity from harmful family, including forming a plan to leave them. And learning to love yourself, awkward as you may think you are.
I guess I see a lot of things in your post that a therapist could and should help with. I'm wondering if you had good ones, and what they were doing with you in that time.
Just as you wouldn't go to a surgeon or dentist and let them work without a treatment plan, you should agree on your goals and the modalities a therapist intends to use to get you there, at the beginning. And you can refer back to this to see if you're making progress or not.
Unfortunately like all healthcare now, you often have to research and become your own self advocate first. You should fire a therapist long before you spend thousands and years doing nothing. Bad therapists are out there, a lot of them. But good therapists can move mountains.
good/fitting therapy. Not all therapy is created equal. e.g. in my country there's a huge shortage of therapists qualified for adult autism diagnosis and treatment (well you can't really "treat" autism like you can treat depression, but y'know), and that's on top of the shortage of regular therapists.
But I guess that just moves the issue from the individual therapists to the general healthcare systems - therapy can deal with most mental issues in theory, it's just that real world healthcare systems often don't allow it to actually do that.
Yeah, the modern society teaches us that if we have any problems, be it health, financial or anything else, it's all fixable and we are supposed to fix it. Yet there is so much we don't have control over. Mental health problems are especially hard to tackle, as there are so few options, they are expensive, time consuming and often don't really help.
For over 4 thousand years, the most functional weirdos got pushed to the periphery and they sometimes used the freedom that ostracism gave them to discover self-directed cognitive/behavioral methods that profoundly changed their perspectives.
They might take a risk now and then, wander down to town and interact a bit. It sometimes resulted in a social interaction in which a well-placed individual was able to understand a bit of what the weirdo had learned. The weirdo would then experience a bit of social acceptance and some townsfolks might actually come visit the weirdo later.
Not usually though. Most often the weirdo would re-experience the initial rejection and they would go back to counting their breaths while sitting on a rock.
I have just recounted the most brief history of the study of yoga that is possible.
My man got a new perscription and starts handing out pills to his buddy, I dig it.
Oh no.....that might be me
It is everyone at least once.
I feel like it's good to at least try every now and then. Sure, doing it over and over and believing it will always be the solution is bad, but the reality is we can't see the shape of our holes or the shape of our solutions.
I love second hand therapy!! I've gotten it from aunts, sisters, my grandmother, my friends. Heck I've benefited from third hand therapy! My first hand always works best, of course, but keep on sharing what you're learning! Best case, you help a buddy, worst case your buddy learns something about you!
“Drink water, eat more regular, and sleep regularly” “NOT EVERYTHING THAT WORKS FOR YOU WORKS FOR ME”
Edit: 9 times outta 10 it’s one of these or you learned a bad thought pattern you need to figure out how to unlearn
For me, the real answer is "spend time outdoors, in nature". This is so overlooked, but studies confirm the mental health benefits of "forest bathing"/spending time in nature.
That’s also a huge one
Outside? With bears?
Nice try, but that's just Big Bear propaganda, trying to get more people eaten by bears.
I should go get lunch
Anyone who has alleviated their back pain loves to prescribe their solution for everyone else with back pain:
- Do these exercises I learned from an occupational therapist or physical therapist or physiotherapist
- Just lift weights and get stronger
- Do yoga
- Stretch more
- Get a standing desk and improve your posture
- Get a better pillow/mattress
- Get regular massages
- No not that kind, get these kinds of massages
- Acupuncture or dry needling
- Cryotherapy
- Certain types of medication
- Certain types of injections
- Certain types of surgery
And the reality is that all of these are potential solutions, and some of them are just good to do anyway, but anyone who has had chronic back pain has probably gotten sick of hearing it.
And I get it. I used to be that guy who advocates for heavy deadlifts and posture exercises and standing desks. And I still know that works for me. But these days, I at least have a bit more humility about the universal applicability of these solutions.
See also people who have gotten out of poverty (or gone from middle class to rich) giving financial advice, people in good relationships giving advice to their single friends, etc.
Ok, but yoga does kinda slap. I just wish I was more motivated to do it lol
I wish it didn't seem so boring. Do people Netflix and Yoga?
Audiobook and Yoga.
Or even the news.
I use @Voice to read literally anything. Websites, epubs etc.
Even paid premium for it. One time ownership with updates.
Try smoking some weed and doing yoga lol. Just make sure you know what kinda class you’re getting into first. You want something relaxing, not hot yoga. Unless you’re into hot yoga.
That brings me to my more serious point. There are many different styles of yoga. I think a lot of it is finding a style/instructor you vibe with.
reminds me of ted talks
Damn, £90 for a print (~$121 USD). I don't think I could above about £60 for a print.
But yes, it is clever.
🎶There's a hole in my heart that can only be filled by glue🎶
I bet if that triangle was a dollar bill everyone would be singing a different tune.