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Old Nov 06, 2014, 10:38 PM
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Originally Posted by MotownJohnny View Post
That's a good question. I think that there isn't a good answer. You can find what you are looking for, but it's going to be a rare gem in a field of rocks.

This is all my opinion, so take it for what it's worth:

I don't think the mental health industry in the US has any real desire to "cure" people or even see them be reasonably functional in the real world. I think it has a great unspoken vested interest in keeping people "messed up" so they remain dependent upon expensive health practicitioners and expensive drugs. Furthermore, they treat to the most severe level, by which I mean they pretty much assume the worst-case scenario about everyone who comes through the door, no matter what the condition or the outlook. For example, when I was in a day hospital program, they talked about things like getting on disability, getting housing assistance, getting emergency assistance/shelters, etc. This was a private, for-profit large hospital, and almost everyone in there had been working and/or attending college immediately before their problems. So, to tell these people to more or less just hang it up, not even bother to try, and plan on going on the dole and sitting out the rest of your life is both stupid and cruel. Instead, they should be pushing people, hard, to do everything possible to gain back every bit of functionality they can have. There are times in life people NEED a push, and that is one situation where I think it's imperative. Because I think the thing I found the most depressing of all was the attitude of "well, it's hopeless, might as well just give up and give in" which came from the so-called "healers". If an oncologist tried that, every patient would die of cancer without ever even bothering to fight via chemo, surgery, radiation, whatever.
It is also true that people can be pushed too hard, I would disagree with people being heavily encouraged to go on SSI/SSDI if they do not need to and such...however a push is not what all people need, some people need help, accommodations and resources. Part of my mental health issues are difficulties handling stress and getting to the point I can't cope with it...so I can only handle so much pushing before it would just overwhelm me too much. I am on SSI but I do not really see it as giving up, I see it as a way to have income since as of now I am not functional to hold a job..but I do not really spend all my time sitting around, that would be boring.

Different approaches tend to work for different people, there is no one size fit all approach.
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