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[tattie@eldritch.cafe]

@ashleyyrain this. Diagnosis acts to re-situate the problem away from the societal factors that cause it and onto the person who suffers from it, putting the onus on them to deal with. And usually, pressuring the person to change themself to fit the system, rather than changing the system to fit them.

This tends to happen whether or not diagnosis is well-intended. And whether this is formal medicalised diagnosis, or any other system of attaching problem labels to individuals.

There's a reason capitalist systems are really keen on handing out diagnoses.

[fay@lingo.lol]

@ashleyyrain it makes them easier to manage for sure but sorry, no, they don't disappear

[ashleyyrain@mastodon.social]

@fay definitely. i am sure whoever made this post isn’t a clinician nor was ever diagnosed with a mental health disorder… thinking more a “figure of speech” (although I’m aware it is not stated here). most folks will draw their own conclusions. my intention of this post is more so about how having access to basic resources can reduce, or as you stated, manage symptoms that can be otherwise be exacerbated.

[bkhl@tilde.zone]

@ashleyyrain @fay just an anecdote, but for me getting a job made my depression go from clinical to subclinical.

[_lilly@transfem.social]

@ashleyyrain@mastodon.social @fay@lingo.lol @bkhl@tilde.zone yea also just an anecdote, but for me all the financial security in the world - while it would help with a lot of stuff - would still leave me completely broken

[bkhl@tilde.zone]

@_lilly @fay @ashleyyrain Im not questioning that at all, but then the screenshot doesn't say "all" mental illness, it says "a lot". If I were to critique posting it would probably just be that it's too blatantly obvious to be novel.

[paleva@norden.social]

@ashleyyrain this wisdom is old as fuck. And as long as wealthy people were not included, this was old news like last century. Sorry to puke.
Education.
Equal rights.
Eqaual payments.
Yes, how beautiful concepts for mental health.
But it’s also known, just as old as the other fuck, existentional stress takes up to 30%of your intelligence. That is one third of regular brain power. That gets stolen every fucking day by stress provoked just by emotions. Contemporary politics r emotions

[kibrika@toot.lv]

@ashleyyrain Is it unpopular? I've heard this quite a bit in the last some years, I think. Maybe just my bubble...

[ashleyyrain@mastodon.social]

@kibrika i don’t know who the creator is. It’s not my work

[ashleyyrain@mastodon.social]

@Paleva it can be wisdom that is old as fuck.

it’s simply a post that I seen online that I related to and wanted to share. many things can be true at once. thank you