I did therapy for a little while a few years ago. I quit after the third week of listening to my "therapist" talk about his wife's after church activities, and attempting to convert me to a Southern Baptist.
I'll take the mercury.
Ok but did it work?
involves quicksilver, aka mercury, potentially organo-mercury.
Congratulations, it works. You now have depression!
All right, either:
Or:
I know the wording's a meme, but the hell with whoever made the original post. Fuckem.
Find only 2 therapists in your area, one rejects your application, and the other double bills you.
Let's also take into consideration that if you're in the US, the current administration wants to make a database of neurodivergent people to make it easier to find them and send them off to camps later. It is actively dangerous to go to therapy.
I get that it's hard, I was in the same boat multiple times. Everyone experiences the problems you list and I guess women and non-binary people actually have it worse because of on average greater financial instability and dependence on others.
But the issue is, for therapy to work you have to acknowledge you have a problem, be willing to reflect upon yourself and change some own misconceptions. I feel like cis men have great difficulty with that and therefore avoid therapy.
I didn't say anything about gender, and I agree with everything in your comment. In addition, I maintain that the original post's divide-and-conquer victim-blaming is one of the worst possible takes on the fact that accessing mental health care (in the US) is harder than performing esoteric medieval alchemy.
Hm, I'd see the joking about men in this case as a way to blow off some steam caused by the frustration of how the people in our society with the most power and who are the most violent continuously refuse to change anything or make concessions. Men not going to therapy and working on their issues results in heightened patriarchal violence. And it is just utterly frustrating how many decades people have fought for systemic change just to see the vast majority of men blocking any change or even pushing back against it.
I bet it was alcohol-based
To be clear: the historical treatment for too much black bile (melancholic) is to shit it out with laxatives.
gut microbiome's link to gut-brain axis and depreasion so partial points earned? laxatives usually have adverse effect on gut microbiome tho
yeah you are going to want to combine this with probiotics, or eating ass
Gotta make sure you're eating undepressed ass though, else you're just back at stage 1
But where am I going to find a happy bottom 🥺
Weird take, but blood-letting is a treatment against microplastics. As is menstruation and donating blood, but the first one is more medieval.
That's a treadmill. You have to eat and drink more micro plastics to replace the lost blood. Bloodletting was the opposite you wanted to do with melancholic illness btw. You wanted to increase sanguine humor(blood, the opposite of black bile) so you ate and drank sanguine foods(meat and gravy, red wine) while taking laxatives and enemas.
Hilariously there is one aspect of this that is actually accurate to modern suggestions. To increase sanguine humor you should exercise and get hot and sweaty (sanguine humor is considered hot and wet). Vigorous exercise is considered by modern medicine to be good for depression.
Can confirm. Worked my ass off today. Felt good.
The solution to pollution is dilution!
You ever go a long time without a good shit? Those alchemists may have been on to something.
Men you know hard it is to get therapy?
And then once you have the means, finding the right therapist..? The original post seems tone deaf
The wording is a meme, but yeah, somewhat detached from reality nowadays.
The idea of imbibing potions whose recipes predate our awareness of things like radium or mercury toxicity somewhat disturbs me.
Thankfully he didn't actually put in any of the dangerous ingredients
That guy's name is Dr. Justin Sledge and his Occultism channel is the first one I found that doesn't make me cringe.
He's also got great politics and taste in music.
He's a hero to us all! Without him, how would you have ever heard of the clerical necromantic underground ? (Which will be the band of my next black metal band, yes, thanks for asking)
Justin Sledge is awesome
maybe the real therapy was the potions we distilled along the way
And maybe the real potion was the therapy we went to along the way along the way
God forbid a white boy catch a vibe
Okay but I want to know where they got that stovetop alembic from. Were they just hanging out on Amazon the entire time while I had to struggle with wok distillation?
Extra spoon of lead for me, I got a sweet tooth 🥰
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