Health Struggles (piefed-media.feddit.online)
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[–] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

While true in some backwater countries (like the US), that also illustrate the problems with metal health: you mostly cannot measure it.

A broken bone can be easily seen, a cancer too (in most cases). But how can we measure that your brain fucks up at a fundamental level? Sure we can see some anomalies (hormonal unbalances, parts that are less active than usual, but other thant that...).

So the standard response in many case is that it is your problem to take care, often with tons of unwelcome "help" ("can you try to be happy", "try X I saw on tiktok", or similar "advice")... If you are lucky.
I saw a friend loose about all her "friend" once she became depressed. She's almost homeless these day, living with her family in a motel she barely can afford despite working full time. I help her the best I can (paid for groceries, phone bill, some of the motel nights when she couldn't), but because of everyone turning on her she blame herself for not being good enough. Which in turn make her depression worse.

Capitalism made empathy a sin. Anyone not helping paythe shareholder their next yatch is seen as a deadweight only deserving to be left to rot.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Let me introduce you to the concept of chronic illness and pain.

    Chronically ill people are in the same boat. Doctors won't believe them because their symptoms cannot be measured. Friends alienate them because they don't have the spoons to live up to expectations. Family keeps telling them to just think positive thoughts. Everyone tells them they are sick because they aren't exercising and dieting enough.

    All while you are in perpetual pain, nausea, fatigue, and overstimulation from so many new ways you learn your body can suffer.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    I do know that situation very well since I'm one of those.

    Scoliosis (so constant back pain), and a suspected immunity problem (need more pyl.. blood works to be pinpointed) that make me basically sick most of the year (as an example, I'm already at my sixth flu since last September... Fun times πŸ˜…).

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