It’s the new “just get to the gym”. For many it won’t do jackshit plus outside USA this isn’t even a thing. Even worse if you’re an immigrant, hell, immigrants go sick to their jobs and do extra days just to not get fired, do you think any of them care about “MeNtAl HEalTh”?

  • NineMileTower@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    20 days ago

    Sometimes alcohol and adult videos, that’s my therapy, and I don’t see that changing and can’t do anything about it.

    Who are you arguing with, me or yourself?

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
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    20 days ago

    Exercise has a demonstrated impact on mood, and it’s free

    Diet also has a demonstrated impact on mood, and often just removing sugar, not eating before bed, is enough to notice a improvement

    Those are the freebies, everything else costs money.

    Maybe a friend can help you navigate difficult issues?

    • Lauchs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 days ago

      OP just likes to complain. You like many others have been kind enough to take time to offer advice that will, like so much before it, be ignored so the whining can continue.

      • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
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        20 days ago

        True, that is life :) but it’s ok. I like OP. I’m happy to till at this windmill.

    • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      19 days ago

      I tried the whole exercise shebang. I’ve actually been more consistent about it than I’ve ever been in my life. I started running back in March and I had never done it before! I kept waiting and waiting to get the mental benefit people say you’re supposed to get out of it…but I never have. Honestly I was going through some huge shit and the supposed mental benefits are why I picked it up in the first place. The only thing it has really give me is something to do and occasionally a brief distraction (altho I have been able to be upset while running so it’s not even always distracting).

      The other day, someone at work was telling me how wonderful they feel during/after a run and it was just wild to me…I’ve only felt that maybe a handful of times ever. Is that what people normally feel when they run?

      I don’t get a “runner’s high” or other mental benefits from it. But I keep doing it because I feel like I’m supposed to now. Overall I find exercising rather unpleasant.

      Do you think the mental benefits will ever happen for me or does my brain just not work the way that other people’s do? I’m getting close to the 1 year mark now since my running journey.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    20 days ago

    I don’t know that this is the right community since it’s impossible to have a casual conversation on the subject, and you seem to be more venting than wanting to talk about the subject.

    That being said, you’re right.

    Mental healthcare access is horrible in so many places that it might as well not be there at all. Then you run into places where they try, but budgeting isn’t there for public, low income patients, so you end up with over worked, under paid providers struggling to keep up with patients that need way more help, more often, than they can provide.

    Even when you have insurance that covers it, wait lists exist and are absurdly long, particularly among those that are at the highest risk. You don’t even want to see how long some pediatric mental health providers are backed up. It can take a year or more just to get the first appointment so they can get started, not even for actual therapy.

    And that’s assuming your insurance is accepted at a given provider.

    That doesn’t mean that it isn’t the best thing to do, it usually is. But if someone is saying “just get therapy”, they’re clueless. Even people in crisis, they may not get the help they actually need, so suggesting that someone only has to up and get therapy and problem solved is malarkey.

    People can be suicidal, reach an ER, get held, go through all the bullshit that entails, and never have a proper therapist seen. There are times when someone in crisis can not only not get help, but end up worse off.

    And, like you said, that’s just the US. There are countries where therapists simply don’t exist. There’s others where accessing therapy is even harder.

    Unfortunately, it is usually still the only useful suggestion someone can make. I tend to be careful about how I recommend someone seek a provider because if you do that without couching it with acknowledging that it isn’t always a possibility, you might as well just tell someone to git gud.

  • Lauchs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    20 days ago

    For I think the fifth time, if you give me your rough region, I will happily look for free therapy options.

    You keep complaining about how things will never change yet refuse all offers of any sort of help, why keep complaining?