Comment on Mental health professionals rarely allow you to talk about the socioeconomic factors too
vapordays@leminal.space 1 week ago
I wouldn’t say “allow,” more like they won’t necessarily include it as part of the analysis/discussion unless you bring it up first. And then, they may not be well versed in discussing it or helping from that angle, even if it is brought into the picture.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah, a mental health professional isn’t going to be much help with the actual issue, they are more about how to cope with it. Which is also the case when dealing with past trauma; the past is in the past and no one can change that no matter what kind of licenses they have. And while mental health professionals can do something about the system, those things have nothing to do with what their expertise is in (assuming they are the kind that has expertise and aren’t just using people’s issues to recruit or strengthen their ties to their cult and that kind doesn’t want to help you but wants their cult to join in the capitalists in exploiting you, though some do seem to believe they are helping people).