One weird challenge of mine is I’ve moved through a lot of different social bubbles of ppl that normally ppl stay put in. It’s been alienating generally. But I have to say working in the MH field w/ poor ppl is one of the more socially alienating experiences. 1/
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Having lots of time put in experiencing the chaos a lot of low income kids live in, it really complicates simplistic stories of class, mental health, personal responsibility, and all the -isms. 2/
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Even v simple debates ppl enter into like, what kind of therapy is effective? How a therapy like CBT or DBT gets delivered is so COMPLICATED. What gets recorded for the data might be “DBT interventions helped this ODD kid” when really mom got a nice BF + that was crucial. 3/
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MH research all needs to be read with 10 bags of salt, bc researchers can’t track all the variables of a community setting and data that comes from surveys of undergrads tells us soooooooooo so so so little.
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The only things that are NOT complex in MH is everyone NEEDS to sleep when it’s dark out and being yelled at/hit/seeing ppl die STRESSES us out.
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