i mean. i think this is a good post, and i agree with the broad point here, that self-destruction does no good for anybody and you do need to be able to disengage from this stuff and allow your mind to breathe and rest, but like. man at what point does individual mental wellness cease to even be a useful framework to deal with this stuff
being inconsolately upset and furious when faced with genocide, fascism and ecological collapse doesn't sound like a mental disorder it sounds like an incredibly natural human reaction to those circumstances. i see reports of youth mental health crises skyrocketing or transphobes posting disingenuous statistics about trans suicide rates, and. yeah i fuckin wonder why, sherlocks. another mass shooter story crosses the timeline and the framing is all about how we need mental wellness checks for firearm purchases and not the hours a day of fascist propaganda he was mainlining
there are diseases chronic and otherwise that have gastrointestinal stress as a symptom, but if everyone at a party is vomiting blood i think we move from the realm of gastrointestinal health awareness into the realm of "did someone spike the fucking punch bowl"
idk. not to sound like an anti-psychology quack but at some point it seems like these frameworks just start breaking down. i like being alive and i'd love to live long enough to see a revolution, but the it seems that the most likely outcome for my life at this point is being gunned down by fascist paramilitaries sometime in the next decade or so, so it's difficult to feel like making life goals of any sort is relevant. is there a pill or something i can take for that. will my insurance cover proletarian revolution