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Aella
@Aella_Girl
This is maybe the most horrifying manifestation of wokeness to me; wokeness is explicitly against so many of the things that create good mental health - internal locus of agency, freedom from shame, validation of your pains, searching for understanding in the things you judge.
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Dr. Debra Soh
@DrDebraSoh
I am seeing wokeness infiltrate mental health, particularly among trainees. Think about the implications of this in a few years, for anyone seeking therapy.
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@gabbymcnabb@spore.social 🥑
@GabbyMcNabb
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@Aella_Girl
Using the term "woke" here is rorschaching; errrrybody just gonna project their map of the concept into this discussion and it'll just be echo chambers all the way down. You outlined important valid things for mental health; what mechanisms are putting those things at risk?
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Anthony Testani
@AnthonyTestani
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@Aella_Girl
Maybe I am out of the loop. Although I have heard the term often, it was never really explained to me. What exactly is "woke"? It sounds like another way of saying "realization". But it seems like there are other components.
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Steffen Schuldenzucker
@sschuldenzucker
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@Aella_Girl
The difference between sane and harmful seems to be the relationship between individual responsibility and the social circumstances. Negative "woke" means rejecting IR due to the circumstances. A healthy way would be to acknowledge both.
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Hyperlexic
@Hyperlexique
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@Aella_Girl
I work in mental health & see this a lot. More time spent validating people's distress, & less time having the kind of difficult conversations needed to bring about necessary behavioural change. Also the conflation of diagnosis & identity mean patients go shopping for diagnoses.
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Jonathan (J.) Legge 🦞
@JJ123452022
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@Aella_Girl
That's such a weird explanation for what is happening. Reiterating "wokeness" as a thing is not helpful to what is included and discussed in training, which isn't clear. If this were an attack on an issue, sure, but generalizing is bland, boring. The field is already diverse.
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Kowalski Nicolas
@kowalski_nico
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GPT-3 for therapy, with a robot therapist with true empathy and priors that match your own, is going to be so huge. Want a kink-understanding therapist? Can do. Hardline catholic one? Sure thing. How hard it is instead to find a human one with which you can be truly vulnerable.
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