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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    What‽ Therapy is our thing. We can’t afford a house but by fuck we go to therapy even if we have to cut down on avocado toast

    • InputZero@lemmy.world
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      No, boomers don’t go to therapy because they believe it’s for weak people. Millennials don’t go to therapy because they can’t afford it. Same result, different approaches.

  • mienshao@lemmy.world
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    Millennials damn near invented therapy with all their mental wellness shit—tf is this post?

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    Laughs from the generation where everybody and their brother installed an amp and a couple of 12-in kickers in their car.

  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca
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    I ride a bicycle in traffic in a city that is ranked pretty bad for drivers across the continent. I’m not sure if that is therapy or an indicator of needing better therapy.

  • Milk_Sheikh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    It’s the days you rawdog life and go home without music. Thems the days.

    Go to therapy y’all. Even if you had a perfect upbringing and zero trauma or adversity, you can still unlock more of your own potential and understand yourself better. Even an imperfect outlet like a NA group setting like is better than white knuckling it.

    • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      That “unlocking your full potential” sounds more like personal coach pseudoscience than actual medical practice, though.

      Be sure to go to actual collegiate professionals with a certified degree in psychology or psychiatry.

      • Milk_Sheikh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        you can still unlock more of your own potential and understand yourself better

        Which is why I avoided saying “full potential” like it’s a life panacea and any failure to achieve 100% is your personal failure instead of the program’s.

        Yes please only go to board certified professionals for mental health and/or therapy, and please please puhhlease don’t make an LLM or authority figure like a priest your therapist…

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        I don’t disagree with what you said, but most therapists will have a degree in counseling or social work. Psychologists and psychiatrists usually do not work as therapists, although there are exceptions.

      • Milk_Sheikh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Sure, compared to food or shelter it’s in the ‘nice to have’ category. But for me at least it’s shown a lot of things that I would never have understood or probed deeply enough to address. Better relationships, more understanding of self/finding your actual self, handle adversity better, etc etc

        You don’t have to sign up for endless sessions, you can quite viably do a few introductory sessions and ask for takeaway homework/tools to use. Return as needed or when you’ve found a new topic that you feel needs work.

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    Talking shit on here is my therapy. That and screaming at sky tempting god to show himself so I can kick his ass.

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    This seems like more of a Gen X attribute to me. I’m an older millenial, and I know heaps of people my age who go to therapy.

    • Valmond@lemmy.world
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      Yeah our generation was short of the -68 hippie love generation so we got the sex drugs and rock’n roll decade. Millennials seems so much more at ease with their (bad) feelings.

      • Monument@lemmy.sdf.org
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        I mean, the alternative was to crumble.

        I mean, fuck. I was just thinking it through -
        In the U.S., Most millennials started out in the wake of the war on drugs and the damage it did to communities. From there, you have the racial tension of the 90’s, the death of truth with Fox News, the rise of school shootings, 9/11, the start of the rightward/authoritarian swing of the U.S., the ‘08 recession, citizens united, loss of democracy, COVID, another recession, inflation, housing insecurity, the loss of the illusion of democracy.

        I remember back in 1999, when I was a kid, hearing folks talk about how in just a few years weed was going to be legal and so was gay marriage. I remember thinking that the future was going to be bright and not some authoritarian hellscape. Now there are license plate readers at the grocery store parking lot.

        I mean. If we didn’t know how to manage the feelings we have about the future we were promised and lost, and all the trauma we’ve experienced along the way, I guess we’d all wind up driving Dodge Rams with U.S. Flags on them.

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          But at least you got the good music in the 90s and early 2000s, Gen X didn’t get that, but was born into the hellhole you describe

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      I dunno, this seemed accurate to me - not because millennials don’t want to go to therapy, but because they can’t afford to.

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        That’s an American thing. Where in from, health insurance covers it completely. But you’ll need a while to find a good, available therapist