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FireFox

FireFox

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Apr 8, 2020
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I had a work colleague who is currently training to be a CBT therapist to work with children and teenagers who have mental health issues. In his new job he is working within the NHS children and teenagers mental health services as part of his training.

He is a very lovely man who genuinely cares for people. Before I left my job I managed to catch up with him.

I said to him "I have massive respect for people who want to work with those who have mental health issues as it is not easy but I would rather work in a job helping improving the system because the system plays a massive role in young people suffering mental health issues."

My colleague had an uncomfortable look on his face and said " ooooo that is discussion I don't want to get in to. I am working in the preventive side of things to prevent it getting worse."

The rise in mental illness espically suicide amoung the youth and people in their 20s is a symptom of a broken world.There is lots of pressure and issues facing teenagers and people in their 20s which adults in are failing to address and so unwilling to discuss.
These issues are the following bullying, increasing pressure to conform, the current state of the world, lack of support for young people who are abused and so much more.

- Bullying in schools is a huge problem with schools failing to take it seriously. So many young people have killed themselves because of bullying.
- Pressure to conform: there so much pressure on young people to conform especially girls to look a certain way. I struggled to fit in at school and I tell you now it was so isolating. I hated teenage years primarily for this reason. There is too much pressure to be successful so young. If you are young and successful society puts you on a pedestal, if you are not young and successful society looks down upon you. Parents contribute to this culture of high expectations.
-Abused children don't always get the help they need, look at the sad case of Amber peat in the UK. Social services is broken.

Mordern life and this world just is not worth living. We live in a poisonous world if people struggle to find their place in this world then you will have a situation where opting out of society looks appealing. Why should young people participate in a world and society doesn't value them?
It's not enough having kind hearted therapists. What we need is to fix our world. But nobody wants to be grown up enough to discuss this. It is so sad.
 
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eyeroller

eyeroller

Some winters have no spring
Feb 13, 2022
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There's so much emphasis on helping people with trauma and not with preventing what causes trauma. Because this soceity sees the issue with us feeling pain and not what is causing us pain. We are blamed so the solution is always just to fix us.

The message is clear. Its our job to be resilient and recover from our tormentors and what torments us or we are simply rejected and not allowed to participate in soceity. This is enforced by our families, friends, work, government and culture as well as our so called doctors and therapists

I lived my entire life trying to fix myself It was either that or not living at all. There's only support to fix me and never any support to fix any real problem that we collectively suffer from
 
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symphony

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Mar 12, 2022
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Oh, absolutely. Systemic issues cause so much pain in our world. I would add do your list discrimination of all forms, especially on basis of race or sexuality, and class divisions that force so many people into tenuous financial situations. No one wants to seriously address those issues either, even when discussing closely-related mental health issues.

Another major point most mental health professionals don't want to address is research. Not nearly enough research is being done or historically has been done on mental illnesses or potential new treatment options for those suffering. If our societies actually invested in that, and actually funded healthcare and made it widely available, maybe fewer people would choose to ctb and live out happy, meaningful lives instead.

Sorry for rambling.
 
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Conker

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Oct 22, 2019
351
Yeah, about that..

When there is a Vrill inside of what was once your head.
From then on they can only think about making more drones, raping, torture and murder.

Research Donald Marshall, Max Spiers, and Phil Schneider.

 
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bing

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Apr 15, 2022
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Society and it's mental health industry are complete jokes.
 
TakeMeBack07

TakeMeBack07

Failure
Jan 16, 2022
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Parenting is the most important factor. How do we help with this problem though?
 
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SuicidallyCurious

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Dec 20, 2020
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Parenting is the most important factor. How do we help with this problem though?

Aggressively punish and drive those who abscond from their children into the ground.
 
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murakamicats

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Oct 6, 2022
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I had a work colleague who is currently training to be a CBT therapist to work with children and teenagers who have mental health issues. In his new job he is working within the NHS children and teenagers mental health services as part of his training.

He is a very lovely man who genuinely cares for people. Before I left my job I managed to catch up with him.

I said to him "I have massive respect for people who want to work with those who have mental health issues as it is not easy but I would rather work in a job helping improving the system because the system plays a massive role in young people suffering mental health issues."

My colleague had an uncomfortable look on his face and said " ooooo that is discussion I don't want to get in to. I am working in the preventive side of things to prevent it getting worse."

The rise in mental illness espically suicide amoung the youth and people in their 20s is a symptom of a broken world.There is lots of pressure and issues facing teenagers and people in their 20s which adults in are failing to address and so unwilling to discuss.
These issues are the following bullying, increasing pressure to conform, the current state of the world, lack of support for young people who are abused and so much more.

- Bullying in schools is a huge problem with schools failing to take it seriously. So many young people have killed themselves because of bullying.
- Pressure to conform: there so much pressure on young people to conform especially girls to look a certain way. I struggled to fit in at school and I tell you now it was so isolating. I hated teenage years primarily for this reason. There is too much pressure to be successful so young. If you are young and successful society puts you on a pedestal, if you are not young and successful society looks down upon you. Parents contribute to this culture of high expectations.
-Abused children don't always get the help they need, look at the sad case of Amber peat in the UK. Social services is broken.

Mordern life and this world just is not worth living. We live in a poisonous world if people struggle to find their place in this world then you will have a situation where opting out of society looks appealing. Why should young people participate in a world and society doesn't value them?
It's not enough having kind hearted therapists. What we need is to fix our world. But nobody wants to be grown up enough to discuss this. It is so
I completely agree.