Hey, full disclosure I’m a mental health provider so you are wholly in the right to question the position I stand on this but for that it’s worth, I’m in the field because I had very similar feelings to you and fell validated by letting my experiences help others.
There’s a lot in this post that is an accurate read but I do genuinely want to emphasize that the past 15 years has seen a lot of these things become the albatross of this field as it shifts culturally towards doing better. My company for instance is the government approved mental health provider for one of the most populated counties in the state and it’s not even remotely capable of medicating people, let alone giving shock therapy. The best we can do is med management which involves interviewing you once every 3 months and getting refills ordered for you.
More importantly, they provide a lot of services that aren’t Therapy and that’s what I really want to point you towards. Personally, I do parent peer support. My job is to visit other parents of children with behavioral and mental health issues and just encourage them to fo the best. I joke that I’m something between a well meaning neighbor and a state appointed friend.
I really think you would benefit from some genuine peer support. I’m going to be frank, some of what you’re saying is pushing the crazy line and while I’m not one to judge I think your focus could really use an outside perspective and some human contact. I want to emphasize that I’m not calling you crazy, our infrastructure is held together by zip ties and bent clothes hangers, a stiff breeze can probably knock out the power grid where you are, because it literally does every June around here. That said, a bunker full of canned beans and 9mm isn’t going to improve that.
Get yourself a camping stove or a propane grill, learn a few good recipes for rice and beans, but fumpingball your money into solar and generators isn’t going to get you anything but less money. The banks getting hacked would only be possible if the wealthy didn’t need them to control the masses and the tiny cabal of wealthy pedophile psychopaths already run the world. Prepping for an apocalypse isn’t going to give you the security you’re looking for.
For what it’s worth, I take that control back in my life by deciding how I engage with the culture I have grown to resent. I make as much as I can and when I can’t I try to learn how before I go buy it. Turns out nice furniture is a lot cheaper when you build it yourself.
erin@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
You can see a therapist without seeing a psychiatrist…
Just tell them you’re not interested in medication. You seem very unregulated. I am poor. Negative money. I see a therapist, and it’s been very helpful. You’re making a great deal of leaps in logic based on anecdotes and personal biases and ascribing them to a well tested and researched field of medicine. You’re not just wrong, you’re letting yourself spiral into paranoia instead of getting help.
You’re building up an entire field into this absolute monster when it’s generally so benign. You’re only at risk of institutionalization if you are an imminent risk to your own life or others, and if that is the case, you need the help. Our carceral mental health system is pretty shit, but it’s better than dying. Again, therapists done prescribe medications. Psychiatrists do. Go see a mental health counselor or a licensed therapist, not a psychiatrist, and you’re in no risk of “big pharma drugs” being pushed on you.
Mental healthcare is not psuedoscience. It’s well tested and proven. Everything you’re jumping to in your third paragraph is just delusion. It’s just talking to someone, dude. Like. Just talking. You talk through your problems with someone that is trained to help you process them. You don’t need to take any medication if you don’t want to, and your therapist typically can’t prescribe those anyways. If you have a chronic deficiency, medication might help, but you can’t be forced to take it.