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The taxonomy of suffering we use to diagnose mental illness, the emphasis on causal neurochemistry, & maybe even the well-meant use of "illness" have, IMO, diverted too much attention from a fundamental need to be met in our suffering, heard, & *seen as powerful* in its facehttps://twitter.com/neilstrauss/status/1005142415835947008 …
I'm not dismissive of e.g. psychiatric medication, but treating the human animal as anything but a fundamentally social creature is a mistake. Babies *die* in the absence of human touch — that's a flashing neon sign if ever I've seen one
Sometimes feels like our entire mental health infrastructure is an experiment to determine just how impersonally you can treat a person who's suffering & still get something resembling results + how little power a person can exert over their own life & still become happy with it
So, therapy then? Sure, if you can find a therapist who started out as a genuinely compassionate person, didn't bolt in terror the second they fully grokked e.g. schizophrenia, and then wasn't fully ruined by professional training
When I say "ruined by professional training," I don't mean to imply that there's nothing useful to learn before/while connecting with a person in crisis. Apprenticeships w/ great therapists are probably ideal. "Here's the method, here's the script" is likely counterproductive
Mental illness is normalized in this country. We’re in too deep.
Our chance to understand “it” is very low. But we shouldn't give up to understand imagines of the other people .
Despair underlies every act of suicide, universally. Which is not to say it cannot be mixed with other motivations. At times, suicide is the last language of truth a person can speak when all other languages have been misunderstood.
Great thread, thanks for sharing!
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