Great article on individualism and modern psychology. Yet it is precisely that rejection of our communal lives that makes therapy culture — at least the version of it on social media and in wellness advertisements — such an imperfect substitute. The idea that we are...
Bipolar Bingo
Too hot for Facebook because it uses the S word (not that S word, the S word that involves the rope).
Psychology is a Science and its Scope is Narrow
What psychology fails to understand is that if you want all the privileges of a being a science you also have to shoulder all the responsibilities of it. That includes the admission that while what you prognosticate is based on science it only applies to the subjects...
A Couple Things That Feed Depression in the Modern World
The fact that you have to perform security. Psychologists and people cutting you off will slap the "insecure" label on you. That's all well and good but what the insecure label really means is you aren't performing security. Let's face it, interactions in modern life...
On Insecurity
People tend to gaslight you calling you "insecure" when society thinks you're a piece of shit and you internalize it. What they fail to realize is value merits a quantitative assessment, not a qualitative one. If you are of low value then yeah you are going to feel...
Modern Psychology and Suicide
Modern psychology is framed as the last defense against a suicidal person's impulses but this is framing it too charitably. Modern psychology is all about the atomized individual. It is wrong to need people as it is wrong to have people to need you. This weakens...
Time to Confess my Psyns
I confess that I have psynned in thought, word, and deed. I confess that I have said and done things that modern psychology deems "unhealthy". I confess that I have not lived life as an atomized individual and have been less productive, less successful, and less whole...
Vulnerability
This should be required watching for any man tempted into the trap of vulnerability https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWr8bKgJ8IM
Ratchet
Things in modern life works like a ratchet. It only turns one way. I volunteer and get next to nothing for it, not a scrap of social capital to be accepted and included with people who could lift me from my sorry state. Then due to my disability I take from the...
Dismiss
One of the must gut-wrenching things modern psychology does is dismiss that which it pathologizes. For example, let's say you're lonely and you miss someone so bad it is occupying your mind too much. Modern psychology posits that you are failing to live up to their...
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