Every negative emotion I have, I’m told to go to therapy.

Negative emotions are human!

Why have we, as a society, grown to fear them?

  • AskewLord@piefed.social
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    3 days ago

    the issue in the USA is the folks who horde all the mental health resources, need them the least.

    they often use access to therapists as a social status symbol more than anything else, because in order to have regular access to therapy you have to be a higher income person.

    we also have a therapy industrial complex in the USA, as in we want to turn everything into a mental health issue so we can sell you a solution to it, and there is massive increase in the pathologization of ordinary life experiences fueled by this.