Thread 76784761

Why is mental health treated like some kind of joke even by today's standards?
For example, a person with schizophrenia has a reduced lifespan of 20-28 years, far more damaging than smoking or drinking every day. Despite being a mental health condition, and not directly affect physical health.
A long-term depression, even just a few years of it untreated, can shorten your life by up to 10 years.
Chronic anxiety destroys your heart's functionality.
Virtually anything that makes you feel like shit mentally over the long term ends up destroying your physical health more than consuming things that are well-known to be harmful.

>>76784761 (OP)
If you aren't affected directly then there's a slim chance you care enough to change the system that fails to offer meaningful support.

The vast majority of mental illnesses are a completely tangled, impenetrable web of maladaptions resulting from a lifetime of bad experiences i.e poor childhood, poor adolescence, compounding into a poor adulthood. Obviously there are other discrete events which can precipitate a decline into severe mental illness e.g fighting in a war, suffering a traumatic experience (rape etc) that fall outside this pattern as well.

In any case, the problems that are all captured under the banner of "mental illness" are so complex and personal to the individual that the idea that any of them can be solved with a prescription for an SSRI and a powerpoint printout that explains how to breathe in for 4 seconds, hold for 4 seconds and then breathe out for 4 seconds is garbage.

The current medical system is obliged to be seen to be 'doing something' about mental health problems because an ostensibly functioning society has to be seen to be taking action toward resolving these problems. We all know mentally ill people exist so there has to be an idea within the collective public consciousness that there is medical help available for those with mental problems.

The reality however is that in order to properly untangle a mentally ill person's problems would take personal resources several orders of magnitude greater than what is currently available (or ever will be). There aren't resources to assign each mentally ill person a consultation with a psychiatrist and a clinical psychologist, for an indefinite number of sessions, to unpick the person's mind and work toward resolving their problems, paid for by the taxpayer.

What we have is a handful of people trying to bail out the Titanic with buckets (if they even still care). At some point you have to accept, at least I did, that much of the 'mental health support' provided to end-users is simply paying lip service to the public's IDEA that "help is available" if they reach out.

>>76784761 (OP)
I think the best example of mental health fucking you up is neet vs working man.
Neets, even if they are fat, look way younger in their 30s than men who started wagecucking in their early 20s.

>>76784850

Great post!

Because majority of mental illnesses are curable by daily beating + forced labor.

>>76784761 (OP)
Reddit disorder

>>76784909
Reddit ones are Bipolar disorder, OCD, BPD, and eating disorders.
Schizophrenia and Chronic depression aren't. Those can actually fuck your life irreparably.
Chronix anxiety, on the other hand, is just wagecucking.

>>76784923
I have chronic anxiety and I never worked a day in my life.

>>76784930
How does being a neet, doing nothing but playing vidya, give you anxiety?

>>76784938
Imagine being so sheltered that it needs to be spelled out for you.
You must be one of those trust fund babies that are so rich that even if they buy a yacht daily, you will never have to fear becoming homeless and having to find a way to survive or kill himself.

>>76784942
>having to find a way to survive
>doesn't work
sounds like you aren't really trying.

>>76784950
You can't even read a whole post and comprehend what it says, you never had to think once in your pathetic worthless existence, fuck off retarded boomer.

>>76784850
Yep. The entire problem in one post. I kneel.

I went through 7years of therapy to fix my mess, no “catch all” system would have ever made a difference

>>76784956
I also didn't have anything; my father kicked me out when I was 19. I still managed to buy the house in my late 20s.
You're just a lazy zoomer who refuses to work, refuses to improve, and blames everything on people who built the country.
No shit, all of you're mentally ill. Lazy dullards.

>>76784969
>my father kicked me out when I was 19
so you had a father and I didn't, of course you wouldn't understand, dipshit

>>76784761 (OP)
>rule 1
Enjoy your 3 day vacation!
>>76784923
>>76784942
>>76784956
>>76784972
Based and victimpilled complex.

>>76784977
>victimpilled complex
you can just say female

>>76784997
If I was a woman, I could just get pregnant by nearest male that has some money.

>>76784977
Fuck off, jannie.
This thread isn't about one specific anon's mental health who is asking for advice.
There is no healthy body without a healthy mind.