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#+ ptsd + generational trauma + a negative peace + classism + paramilitary drug dealers + parties linked to those paramilitaries
mariemariemaria
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Does anybody else feel like mental health awareness has done very little to help them in material reality
#i was gonna say done nothing to help but that seemed too harsh
#like there definitely is more knowledge about it now. maybe more people feel comfortable speaking about it which is good
#but personally i don't feel that. like idk. workplaces will post about mental health awareness and then do nothing to help employees
#the same w universities. my uni cut back the already meager mental health support
#and then the government is doing absolutely fuck all as well
#like idk im just back in a place i thought id gotten out of long ago and i still don't feel comfortable talking about it with people
#maybe that's a me problem or maybe it's cultural or something idk. but in the 10 years ive been depressed (🫠) i don't think it's gotten a
#whole lot better. teenagers are still dealing with the same shit i did and they're still not being taken seriously
#women's mental health is not even spoken about.....anxiety depression sh eds etc are still ignored or seen as hysterical behaviour in women
#or just normal esp with disordered eating. society hasn't changed people still want women to be stick thin and weak
#like i know 10 years is a short time and there has been massive improvements in mh awareness if we look back over the past 50+ years
#but idk i just think that it hasn't gotten better for a lot of people
#i think specifically of belfast and like god. the amount of trauma there is the amount of homelessness the amount of substance abuse
#drug abuse in particular that has gotten visibly worse over the past decade or so*
#and i connect the dots n see the 2008 recession + a tory gov defunding the nhs + dehumanisation of homeless people & addicts + the troubles
#+ ptsd + generational trauma + a negative peace + classism + paramilitary drug dealers + parties linked to those paramilitaries
#and its like hmmmm i think we live in a society. and a mental health approach based on individual actions like journaling and meditation
#isn't the way to go. or at least is not the be all and end all which is what a lot of mental health awareness raising seems to promote
#*visibly worse on the streets. it was always a problem ofc but even a decade ago my parents never imagined it would be as bad as it is now
#and it's become so normalised. i do think there's less individualism here than there seems to be elsewhere which can be good and can be bad
#but i think we are becoming more and more individualistic. slowly. there's still a sense of community here but i do think it's changing
#and callousness towards homeless people is one of the most obvious examples of this.
#love when i put a wee asterisk in the tags of a post. like i have A Lot To Say lol
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