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the real danger of spending too much time with friends is you stumble out of ten days of happiness and good food like oh my god THAT was real life. my job means NOTHING

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You should never forget literally the best line in all of video games

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would you like for the sonys Kravencest coding to bleed into the comic counter parts or not?.

y’know like how magnetos helmet being able to block telepaths got snagged from the fox movies.

no 👍

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In fact, the cognitive model of mental health works very much the same way as ableism or fatphobia.

In the sense that able-bodied people and/or thin people want to believe that they're able-bodied and/or thin because they did something right. They eat the right things, or do the right kind of exercise, or have the right amount of self-control, or are the right amount of careful. Because the truth — that their physical health and/or thinness is a complete accident of genetics and circumstance — is uncomfortable. It feels more comfortable to believe that you're doing something right, and *those people* are doing something wrong. Rather than the truth, which is that anyone could become disabled at any time. You could get long covid tomorrow, you could get hit by a car tomorrow. There are steps you can take to mitigate those risks, obviously, but not completely.

The cognitive model of mental health works exactly the same way. "Mentally ill people have distorted thought patterns and faulty reasoning, that's why they're mentally ill. We mentally healthy people just think the right way, which is why we aren't depressed or anxious or traumatised. If only we could teach the poor, stupid mentally ill people not to think so *irrationally*, they'd be perfectly fine!" It can't be that mental illness is a result of uncontrollable accidents of circumstance. It can't possibly be that trauma and adverse life experiences, level of social and material support for those experiences and the length of time you're affected by them is what causes mental illness, with uncontrollable genetic and dispositional factors filling in the rest. It can't be. Because that would mean mentally healthy people aren't healthy because they're just better than everyone else, it would be an accident and they could become mentally ill at any time! That would be scary! So it must be that all those mentally ill people are fucking stupid and just think things wrong. Nice, safe personal responsibility. Mentally healthy people get to believe they're immune to mental illness because they have good thoughts, and don't have to care about resources and treatment efficacy, because it doesn't and won't ever affect them.

To paraphrase Aubrey Gordon: I have no interest in congratulating people on the accident of their mental health.

in a truly disturbing and concerning sign of profound mental illness, I started arguing with people on the r/CBT subreddit again...

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the vast majority of people on there just further confirm my belief that CBT works exactly like a fad diet trend: if it doesn't work for you for whatever reason, YOU didn't do it right or try hard enough, it can't be that the theory or methodology doesn't apply to literally every human being who's ever lived or will live

an exhausting number of people think CBT is some unquestionable Truth that works for everyone and every mental health problem, that if it wasn't helpful you either misunderstood it, just "coincidentally" had multiple "bad therapists" in a row, didn't try hard enough or didn't want to try. therapists and patients alike refuse to grasp that CBT's ubiquity makes it weaker as a modality. it's literally "if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail". they're looking at screws and nuts and bolts going "these nails suck", you try and say "well, that's a bolt, not a nail" and they go "impossible, everything's a nail, are you sure you've understood properly what a nail is? :)" and when you say "not only is that not a nail, whacking it with a hammer like that is damaging it, get a screwdriver" they go "you're exaggerating, it's impossible for a hammer to damage anything! you don't even want to get this nail in this piece of wood, do you? you just want to wallow and complain!" and you're sat there with this bolt that needs to get screwed into something and telling them you just need a fucking screwdriver or a spanner, and they look at you like you're insane

in a truly disturbing and concerning sign of profound mental illness, I started arguing with people on the r/CBT subreddit again...

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in a truly disturbing and concerning sign of profound mental illness, I started arguing with people on the r/CBT subreddit again...

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come follow me

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i saw a girl on tiktok who put her salt lamp in the dishwasher and didn’t realize it would dissolve, and it’s been on my mind for like 3 days

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someone hacked Elmo’s account (yes, Sesame Street Elmo) on twitter

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more college chara and frisk because i had so much fun with the first one lol

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"You could get up early and do it before work" I could also wait for a magic beanstalk to start growing in my living room LMAO. Let's focus on things that happen in the real world

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Tenna but in outfits based on different types of TV channels

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I just found this on my computer and have no memory of making it. I stand by it though

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