From the author of
“Have You Tried Exercise”
and
“It’s All in Your Head”
tbf, i've once met an autistic person who was just an ass, and they excused all of their assholery by saying "i'm not rude to you or anybody, i'm autistic, i don't intend to be rude, if you think anything i said is rude you're hallucinating"
and i know for a fact it's not the autism's fault, because quite a few also autistic people criticised them for being an ass so
I hate how people claim to be autistic as an excuse for being an asshole. Elon Musk is the king of that. And as far as I know, he's self-diagnosed.
Maybe he is autistic, but that is not why he is an asshole.
Similarly, my brother is autistic, but his autism is not the reason why he screams the "n-word" in his car when he's alone so he can be "transgressive." (The autism might be why he told everyone he knew on Facebook though.) Autism is not an excuse for a lack of basic morals. In fact, I have known plenty of autistic people who are not just very moral and ethical, but rigidly and inflexibly so.
Oh for sure. There are some people who crutch disabilities of all sorts to justify poor behavior, but they’re by far the minority. I was just having fun with the shitpost.
Or, you know, waste money on "shrinks and drugs" because mental illness is real and can be treated and lives have been saved.
It's a shit post. If you come to this group to discuss actual mental issues then you would need help
And yet there's never a bad time to tell people that they should get help for their mental health issues, because it could save their life. Even in a shitpost comment.
If we're going to get real for a second, I just wanted to complain a bit.
I get that therapy is so heavily advocated for and seen as the catch all nowadays, but the mental health field itself (at least in the US, not sure about every country) needs a total overhaul. At this point I have spoken to maybe like 5-6? different therapists.
At no point did any of these people offer anything useful to me. Most simply acted like ChatGPT...repeating what I said back to them without saying anything of much substance. Then there was one who was consistently 30 minutes late to every single session (4-5?) I had with her. Once or twice, sure I get it...but good fucking lord have at least some respect for the client. Then there was another therapist who seemed to want to get a bit more practical about things, but kept downplaying any issues I have with my cunt supervisor because she didn't commit r**e or murder, so what she did and the way it made me feel didn't matter. And then there are others who utilize certain methodologies where they try to teach you that all of your thoughts and feelings are invalid and wrong...as if the only way to exist as a functional being in society is to be born a different person.
In all this, the constant feedback I hear from people is...well...you just didn't click with that one or that one is a shitty therapist. Keep trying and you'll find one out there that will help!
Therapy is not cheap and not always even easy to schedule. And then going through so many shitty ones when you're already mentally drained enough to need therapy is just even more disheartening and mentally draining.
The point I'm getting at is not necessarily that all mental health is bunk. But I am fortunate enough to have had the means to spend multiple hundreds upon hundreds (thousands) of dollars on this ultimately unhelpful and frustrating journey. Many others are not so financially fortunate.
If I can have a sample size of 5-6 random therapists and they are all literal trash, then the mental health field is not outputting what they should be outputting.
It's like I have a broken ankle and I have to go to 5 separate hospitals...yet none of the hospitals know how to fix it. So instead of trying even more hospitals, I just end up hobbling on a broken ankle which will heal mal-aligned because it's too much time, effort, and money to continue with what seems like a futile task.
This wouldn't be acceptable in the field of medicine, but it somehow is in the mental health care. I don't at all know how to fix the mental health field, but I know that it isn't at all where it should be.
Therapy is what helped me stop being a shitty person and think of others first. It’s incredible how much I’ve transformed myself over the years. Give it a shot.
Los dos
I was just thinking about that, I should accept myself just being a piece of shit, I don't think I've ever improved even when I was berated or isolated myself, a self centred piece of shit
You're frankly too self aware to be that much of a POS.
You're probably going a touch too hard on yourself lol.
The road to recovery is accepting your reality. So congratulations
Hello, me??? We can be self-centered shitheads together!
IAlreadyKnewThat.pdf
Surprise, it's both!
Obvious shitpost that brought a bit of light and humor to my otherwise mentally ill morning. As the Swifties say: I’m the problem it’s me!
I tried to look up if this was a real book because I'd def want to buy it. I came up with only one result on Amazon and the cover looks different and it doesn't have good ratings.
