When I was on unemployment I asked them what the state expected me to do if I still didn't have a job despite my best efforts, and the unemployed benefits ended. They just awkwardly laughed.

We live in the bad place because we let people be rich, and then let them make the rules.

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.

If your therapist doesn't "allow" you to talk about the systemic problems with capitalism, then you should find a new therapist asap

I was never depressed until I couldn't find a job and fell into debt and felt worthless.

I should probably just smile more or something

I mean, this is patently false. Mental health professionals - especially therapists - aren’t there to “allow” or not “allow” you to talk about things. You can talk about whatever you like.

And most therapists, especially clinical social workers, are well-versed in systemic perspectives and anti-oppressive practices.

I’m a clinical social worker and a therapist, and I talk with my clients about socioeconomic factors all the time. Especially because I see a lot of people from the LGBTQIA+ community, and it’s impossible to do therapy with any marginalized community without mentioning the social aspects.

I get that there are bad therapists out there who may not do this. But still, these kind of posts just gaslight people about what therapy is really like.

Blaming the individual for social problems is big business. Frank Freeway is burned out and angry from a two hour commute to a dead end job with shitty pay, mandatory weekends, high deductible health care, and draconian bosses. Meanwhile, his kid's school funding has been cut and high prices are breaking the finances.

So Frank's boss complains that he's not happy-smiley at work, and sends him to a shrink who tells him he's ungrateful, and prescribes powerful antidepressants. So, hey, the psychiatry business makes money as long as everyone blames the individual.

Me: I don't want to get up and leave my house. Everything feels pointless.

My psychiatrist: want me to up your medicine?

Me: Honestly, I think I'm having a normal response to late stage capitalism. I don't think more medicine will improve my mood.

My psychiatrist: that's a fair assessment.

Recently had to tell my psychiatrist that you cant reframe poverty into something positive."But you do have x y and z don't you?" Yhea while others have the alphabet and all the unicode charaters and we can't get them unless we do things you can't recommend. silence "same time in two weeks?"

Mental health professionals rarely allow you to talk about the socioeconomic factors too

While there are certainly going to be individual examples to the contrary, as commentary on the entire field of psychology, this is utter bullshit. Social determinants of health are a huge part of the work.

Here in the UK, the far right fly those as "false" flags protecting us all, not only from those socio-economic factors, but providing the final solution as applies to blacks, browns, Jews, LGBTQ+, non-Christians etc. I am not religious, but never has it been a greater truism that the devil himself will quote scripture should it serve his purposes.

Mental Health services have been deliberately degraded since the Nixon era in America to prevent any explanation on what causes or exacerbates depression and anxiety. No one is allowed to say bad things about capitalism or they're othered.

Why would they be afraid to mention the legitimate factors of a person's depression?
I can imagine it would help to say, these things are real and we can't change them in this room; What we can change is how we feel about them and direct those feelings to activities outside that can change the real problems. Basically help empower people to embrace activism, as a coping mechanism for their depressive problems, which are caused by the thing they can advocate against.

I was in behavioral therapy for over a decade a lot of it was about how to handle finances and the way of economics now and how they impact mental health. It was a common subject and group as well.

Don't make it out to be like there's some kind of conspiracy that mental health professionals on a lot talk about finances.

Isn't the repression of the working class the point. Make them seem stupid and irrational, to take away even more of their rights. Pretty much the main activity of psychologists.

I knew a psychiatrist who would complain about how stupid her patients were. These were people in crisis whose problems often repeated themselves due to the environment. But as a well off boomer who never had to deal with cost of living pressures in her life, she had no concept of their life's problems and just saw all these suffering people as idiots who don't make good choices.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/02/12/money-money-everywhere-but-not-a-cent-to-spend/

Like how they protect fossil fuel producers by creating a "climate anxiety" disease to blame victims instead.

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