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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

you can sign petition to make housing affordable in europe right-to-housing.eu

My therapist prescribed me housing security. Any suggestions on where I can get this filled?

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

It’s a great stress relief knowing I could go a year not working and still pay the bills. Having money solves so many issues in life

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.

Unofficially its sometimes called shit life syndrome.

Money might not buy happiness, but it sure as shit can help keep hopelessness at bay.

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

Then I guess I'm glad I can't afford to talk to them.

I wouldn't say "allow," more like they won't necessarily include it as part of the analysis/discussion unless you bring it up first. And then, they may not be well versed in discussing it or helping from that angle, even if it is brought into the picture.

Just because I'm a paranoid, stressed out, depressed pill popping mess doesn't mean that society... I don't want more pills. Thank you doctor for recommending pills over revolution.

We can see the trend of worse health outcomes and other quality of life regression, when people have less of the profits from their employment and basic things that reduce artificial scarcity, which workers in many countries enjoy. Death and illness of desperation, another name for artificial scarcity, is reduced by proven methods that places with them would never accept the system usa workers do. Unite for better life for all, including minorities, groups have changed over time but punching down on them or anyone is wrong and unacceptable.

The National Man-Couch Love Association member who is also VP basically came out and said let the poor people die a few days ago.

It is no coincidence that increased recognition for mental health conditions coincided with the gradual neoliberalization of the metropole; medicalized suicide attributes the injuries of capitalism to the body, not the system.

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

Wouldn't say impulsivity but the others could be true. That doesn't mean they're not caused by capitalism tho lol. You fix problems from the root not apply like idk patches or bandaids idk.

Wouldn't it be dangerous for a therapist to say that? Because if their patients read it they will kill themselves due to it being caused by things completely outside of their individual control?