Are there any scientific studies on this? Learning about these problems does unusually not improve your situation in any meaningful way on its own, but might also lessen your willingness to deal with that system.
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Goodeye8@piefed.social 2 weeks agoBut they could still explain those “norms”. A lot of people identify systemic issues as personal inadequacies because there’s been a deliberate effort to make people internalize the shortcomings of the system. I imagine it would be a sort of a cathartic release to know there’s nothing wrong with you and it’s the systemic pressures that make you feel that way.
julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Now that’s just the crazy talking, here have some more meds and oh by the way have you tried CBT? Let’s reframe those thoughts…
Like I can’t tell you how many times I’ve described this as gaslighting and people tell me that’s not true because medical gaslighting doesn’t exist. Oh please…