There's a really easy way to tell whether a mental health treatment is likely effective. If, when the treatment fails, the person gets blamed then the treatment's effectiveness should be seriously called into question. For example religion often makes all these...
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The whole evolutionary point of depression was to serve as a call for extra support from the group. Modern hyperindividualistic methods of treating depression often don't work. It is easy to see why, everyone naturally does (and indeed is expected to) optimize for...
on the increasing volume of mass murderers
Mass shooting tragedies like the one in New Brunswick and Seattle Pacific University seem to be happening more and more often. I am in a unique situation to give feedback on this because the perpetrators often have spec sheets like me--male, angry, withdrawn,...
Keeping Them In Their Place
Just like the economic haves and have-nots there are interpersonal haves and have-nots (though obviously the wealthier and closer one is to being of privilege the more likely they will be an interpersonal have). Unsurprisingly there are forces keeping interpersonal...
Depression Self-Reenforcing Mechanisms
Some observations from inside of depression. 0. Depression is out to kill you. You are on its kill list. It just needs your help in getting the job done. Knowing this will depress you more. 1. Depression makes you contact the people you have no business contacting...
Distorted thinking of “distorted thinking” lists
Every once in awhile you will run across a "distorted thinking" list that claims depression makes you see the world in a way that it really isn't. Here are some thoughts on their line of thinking. People want to be given the benefit of the doubt even though they...
Therapy Roadblocks for Those Without Privilege
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is designed by white, upper middle class, non-disabled people. The further you are from this demographic the worse you will fare. The changes one is expected to make in order to better themselves are more likely to be met with roadblocks...
Romanticizing Suffering
It always ground my gears hearing chapel speakers wax romantically about suffering while I was in eye pain and serious depression. I'm sure there are a lot of reasons I don't have the historical knowledge to grasp but here is my speculation: Those who have come...
Why the idea that experience of God can turn against you is so offensive to Christians
Christians, both Evangelical and Liberal, are united in that they hate the idea that one's experience of God can turn on them. That's part of the reason why they don't engage individuals with mental illnesses on a deeper level. Some thoughts: This idea calls into...
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Being at the right end of the power structure, therapists make up terms that cast the sufferer in a pejorative light. Social Anxiety Disorder: Most people are anxious in social situations for a very good reason. They get rejected and even picked on. By calling it...
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