Xsjadoblayde said:
Could be the case. Hadn't thought to bring it up to any professionals due to it being the least of current problems. Plus it feels kind of deserved in ways that aren't brief or useful enough to elaborate upon. Will see if can remember to mention it in an upcoming appointment though, can be very forgetful in anxious states of mind.
The laugh track absence challenge sounds like a horror reserved only for one's greatest enemies. What if they still laugh? Does that provide a 95% chance that they are a Tory voter?
Oh, well ... yeah. There is a difference between bouts of existential angst, where momentarily (up to a few days and perhaps weeks) face anxiety and temporary anhedonia. Which can be purely stress driven due to a hectic work week (and feeling like you have nothing to show for it), or bereavement, etc. Where you look at the things you did enjoy and face a momentary crisis in the face of cosmic insignificance--and full blown anhedonia. It's what I like to think of as 'the healthy curse' as opposed to simply 'the curse' ... because sapience is a curse, but at least it's the status quo. You can't just be oblivious. The interesting thing about looking at pain is that the types of pain caused bythings like bereavement and sudden social isolation actually show similar brain activity to other types of things like neuropathic pain. And the body responds in a very similar fashion ... spiking blood pressure, increased heart rate, the works.
You can actually die from heartbreak and it takes years off your life, and that's
normal. The problem is when the anxiety, the snse of loneliness, and the dissolution of any stabilising effects of the ego begin to lead to prolonged listlessness, fatigue, longterm isolation, stuff like that. People can sort of just 'lose themselves' to it. And it can be like a wrecking ball through their life.
Unfortunately given that worldwide mental health services are basically lacking, usually the cheapest way is people throw drugs at it pretending as if anxiety related distress can be solved with psychiatric medication (it actually can't, we can clinically prove this ...91% of depression cases will not actually be treated with drugs, drugs merely become a crutch) ... But because psychotherapy requires time, and trained people, and is person-orientated rather than
market orientated, well GPs handing outdrugs to problems they have no idea of any other way to treat has become the status quo worldwide.
And then governments worldwide complain how it's not working, and then use the fact that it's not working to argue
against further funding and increased mental health service cutbacks ... Because people are garbage and awful, and it's hard to imagine a species this
tragically cruel to its own ...
And the stupid thing is it can
happen to any of us but no politician ever wants to hear; "You know, mental health services needs to
treble in public funding. At best psychotherapy services access are not even treading water. Therapists are drowning in cases, and you're not even paying enough for general consultancy much less to actually provide treatment options. Thesame people you throw drugs at now, they will still need drugs 20 years from now ... and by that point you've created nothing but a culture of chemical dependency to treat problems that are environmental and psychosocial in nature."
As for TBBT ... I feel like in order to describe just how unhealthy the show is ...
Is there ever a point these writers actually look at themselves and think; "Are we awful people? I feel like we're awful people ...."
And yeah, at least a 95% Tory voter rate.
At least with Everybody Loves Raymond, Ray's laziness and general antipathy to actually working with Debra maintaining domestic relations and the role of parenting a handful of kids, and a general level of narcissism involved, was portrayed as
pathetic. That it has roots with a sociopathic mother who coddled him and none of this is actually a
healthy thing, or a
normal thing, or an
acceptable thing.
