When people keep telling me to basically deny my reality, it makes me feel more shit than anything else. I’d much rather someone empathize and tell me that, yes, things actually do suck. And guess what, that does make me feel better and more sane
If you don’t acknowledge reality and stay realistic that things actually are not always that great, then the next time you get knocked down by something, or your challenges make something you aspired to do rail, then you’re just gonna fall apart like a house of cards. Especially if you start internalizing that you should be able to do this and that it’s your fault you didn’t succeed etc
Treating mental health in an individualist way sucks, and sometimes is worse than nothing
I’m not talking about being in denial. I’m saying that if you want things to not suck, you do have to have the idea that things might not suck somehow later. If you think things are always going to suck then you’ll never bother to make things not suck.
Is it really unmet? Many of the default communities, especially the top ones, are constant feeds of at least half posts consisting of negative news about politics, economics, and environmental news. If the articles aren’t negative, the comments often are. Like my comment I guess, though I don’t intend to be argumentative.
I’m struggling with how much is wrong and how hard it fixing it appears to be as well. But I don’t think there is a lack of that acknowledgment here at all.
When people keep telling me to basically deny my reality, it makes me feel more shit than anything else. I’d much rather someone empathize and tell me that, yes, things actually do suck. And guess what, that does make me feel better and more sane
If you don’t acknowledge reality and stay realistic that things actually are not always that great, then the next time you get knocked down by something, or your challenges make something you aspired to do rail, then you’re just gonna fall apart like a house of cards. Especially if you start internalizing that you should be able to do this and that it’s your fault you didn’t succeed etc
Treating mental health in an individualist way sucks, and sometimes is worse than nothing
I’m not talking about being in denial. I’m saying that if you want things to not suck, you do have to have the idea that things might not suck somehow later. If you think things are always going to suck then you’ll never bother to make things not suck.
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Is it really unmet? Many of the default communities, especially the top ones, are constant feeds of at least half posts consisting of negative news about politics, economics, and environmental news. If the articles aren’t negative, the comments often are. Like my comment I guess, though I don’t intend to be argumentative.
I’m struggling with how much is wrong and how hard it fixing it appears to be as well. But I don’t think there is a lack of that acknowledgment here at all.
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