I now hate pretty much everything I used to enjoy and the only things I still enjoy also make me more angry and frustrated. I blame John Stewart.
Not to mention always being “that guy” in conversations with literally anyone
I can’t tell if people like me in spite of it, because of it, or are just being polite.
Probably the 3rd option.
I am not going to stop.
Idk I had some (soc-demmy) friends who moved away in the spring and I basically went unfiltered with them just cause it wouldn’t matter a whole lot. Over the few weeks leading up to the move, they kept hanging out with me (a bit surprising haha), and now they’re frustrated talking to Klobuchar loving libs in their new city lol
Saw (well, video chatted) my therapist for the first time in a few months. Brought up the political isolation and all that. And she basically told me to stop being so informed and maybe compromise more. Talk about just reinforcing my point.
This is why I won’t go to therapy even when my friends insist. I’ve gone before and their solution to everything is to just focus inwards, focus on yourself, you don’t owe anyone else anything, you’re an island and you can make that island happy. It’s liberal bullshit. The only time they talk about your relationship with others is in a kind of transactional way where they want to see what you can get out of others (emotionally, not materially). I think psychotherapy is meant to perpetuate liberal hegemony. I don’t want to talk about me me me, I’m not depressed because of brain chemicals, I’m depressed because of the state of the fucking world.
Adam Curtis’ Century of the Self, a documentary series on the triumph of individualism - presented as a liberal way to distribute power to everybody, while concretely, and paradoxically, driving mass-consumerism - starts from the work of Sigmund Freud. Watch here .
Part of the problem with that as well, which I tried to explain to her, is that sometimes listening to these podcasts/reading articles/watching videos/etc. that get me angry and informed and depressed also make me feel a bit better because they are the only way I can feel validated sometimes. It’s really nice to hear a human voice say “don’t worry, you’re not completely insane. We see it too.” I love my family and friends, but I wish that I had someone outside my SO like that in real life.
my significant other has experienced this with like a dozen different therapists since 2011. The advice is always to focus on things that make you happy and I shit you not, do coloring book activities to de-stress. …
I’ve found it so difficult to find a therapist for this reason. Especially now that I’m a therapist myself, I can’t deal with my colleagues who face the void of insane human suffering and misery every fucking day and then think, “this is fine.”
For comrades reading this - there ARE like-minded therapists out there. If you can, I recommend steering away from therapists who focus on individual deficit modalities like CBT or DBT. Try to find someone who is more humanistic, existential, client-centered. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is worth a shot. It may take many attempts to find the right person and I believe it is genuinely helpful once you get there.
There needs to be a commune where we all can go to share theory and bread. I’m ready to unplug from Western Society and build something more human.
I’m not much of a baker, but get me a stove top and I can contribute a ton of tastiness.
Gonna have to figure out how to make a vegan bechamel though…
Gonna have to figure out how to make a vegan bechamel though…
From each according to their ability, to each according to their need.
Thanks a bunch! I guess I’m a little surprised a plant based milk would work the same, but I guess I’ve made a roux with olive oil and flour before…and that’s the important part.
I am just vegetarian, not vegan, but would want to cook inclusively.
I did just make a nearly vegan “Italian style drunken noodle” last night. But the noodles use eggs. Accidentally bought LightLife sausages, but they tasted pretty good. Their bacon and their hot dogs were not good, so I had intended to grab a different brand.
Big mood. I can’t really engage with television or radio at all anymore, I swear I can just see the slurry of liberalism leaking out, when they’re on, and that just makes me absolutely livid in ways I didnt think could be done.
you ever start talking with somebody who doesn’t really follow politics and doesn’t know which one are the republicans and which are the democrats?
