What do you think of pop psychology solutions to mental health for people with moderate mental health issues like low self esteem, anger management?

[writing_essays]

I think they are completely useless. You want good mental health treatment read an inspirational religious book by a Jewish rabbi or a nobel prize speech, harvard graduation speech or a civil rights speech or a political speech - these people are much better sources of mental health therapy then some secular psychologist who thinks human beings are evolved lab rats. Do you agree or disagree?

[Anonymous]

I completely agree and am relived to see some wisdom about it all. I think its really black and white how someone fits a spectrum. A lot of these medications are very harmful and there's not a whole lot of regulation if the parents aren't making wise choices because the child can't really speak for themselves, the more they try to insist against it, it gets worse... We hear so many bad stories solely about issues with medication.

So yeah I think its BS that good ol therapy and comfort and trauma treatment in general with no weird gadgets and medication can work wonders based on the professionalism of the therapy. A lot of ted talks, and channeling in general do wonders, we never talk about the environment hurting the individual, we immediately go right to chemical misfortune.

I see so many get started in hard drugs when they've been addicted to prescriptions for years and every time they talk about the side effects, its all on deaf years.

I've got a good head on my shoulders that I know better that my parents' generation views a lot of deviation as problematic when its really not. If you're in a gang and lost on the streets, I don't know but if you don't look at the environment, its really bad to just start medicating the hell out of a 14 yr old who doesn't know how to seek out help if the family may be wealthy or avoiding exposure of abuse. Imagine that kid is an outcast; an outcast or bad childhood doesn't need to be black and white either.. plenty of people come from a shitty past and they grow up to be great people with zero mental health because they triumphed it rather then just went and got shrinked.

As cliche as pop psychology can be, there's so much self improvement techniques out there, I really don't see the point in hurting your kids health possibly, self esteem and view of themselves, especially with stigma before really figuring it all out. Also the psychology professionals are educated to recognize abuse without bruising and parents who deny, but many psychologists are subjective and biased, many come from strict religious and conservative backgrounds... the same backgrounds that may have said gays needed mental health at one point.

[Opinion Owner]

tmi portion Pt. 2 I also can't respect someone who doesn't think more in the shades of grey, I just don't find them to be very intellectual if they can't see the psych world as big business. I find our society to be ugly opportunists to drug kids out so badly. I escaped it myself probably because so many around me were hooked to the stuff and I just wasn't. I basically turned 20 and met with 6+ G. I. who all privately told me without my parents there that the amount of medication I was on in my teens was so bad, that it contributed largely to my intestinal ulcers. And you're damn right I didn't do some class action lawsuit which considering this disease isn't curable would have been justified but of course, I don't know how to go about that at age 19-20, with sexist middle eastern parents who tell me I can leave home when I'm married to a rich arab?

[Opinion Owner]

I see so many good parents struggling to get out of this whole scheme and seeing their kids at risk from it. My parents would never help me in recovering from what I went through in mental health because it means admitting some fault.

I just turned 30 and I have to literally act submissive after I learned they had no limits to "correcting" me; I threw out a large chunk of feminine, expensive clothing, I threw out my phone, my social media was gone and I absolutely became vocal that I would never get married, have kids or ever be with a middle eastern... I enrolled myself in school the same year I got the ulcer diagnosis, they didn't want to help pay with school and I eventually dropped from interference in schoolwork.

[Opinion Owner]

(I have a history book stuck together with coffee when my mother came into my room insuiniting mental health shit, she threw the coffee onto me and my history book. She had me dragged into court and hospitals when I shoved her off me. The police said I was playing video games, they handcuffed me while I was blotting the coffee stains out the carpet in my pjs. Nobody understood why holding a job or school down was tough,.. ^that was one of many reasons, I had to drop an honors history class.)

I witnessed girls in my rich suburb take the money their parents gave them for rent and classes and blow it on more drugs while dipping into prescriptions... I eventually broke down from almost getting married to an arab to getting away from them. I didn't thankfully but now they are finally promising me a place of my own that has to be in the same city as them... :)

[Opinion Owner]

Yes mental health, baby boomers and middle easterns obsessed with the glory and pride of a rich town absolutely disfigured me, physically and metaphorically. So I am a twisted, crazy example and I don't care how it sounds because its too torturous that I can't even relate to anyone with what I've been through.

[BellePepper]

Everyone is different so everyone needs a different approach. I'm glad reading works for you but for a lot of people it would not and does not.

[Mindset]

Sometimes it depends on your upbringing and environment. The environment in which you grow up determines your approaches to different things. Your family/friends/ the mass media in your country might teach you to read holy/religious books to get comfort in times of distress. But at the same time, other people in different places rmight be taught different approaches to getting comfort (e. g. by the people around them/ the mass media/). Personally, I get comfort and peace of mind from both religious books and the people around me (not necessarily psychologist) but still I'm different people in different places or with different ideologies will choose different approaches. i hope you'll find this useful. :)

[neoagent1]

I heard about some new age thing about adult coloring books are supposed to be good for mental health, not sure what it's supposed to relieve, but holy shit if you think adult coloring books are good for your mental health you need some real professional help.

[BellePepper]

They're useful for people because the mindless activity allows them to relax. A lot of them also have positive saying for people to think on while they color. We know positive thinking helps people with depression and anxiety so how is it useless?

[neoagent1]

@BellePepper It is useless because I'm sure there aer many many other more useful things that are NOT drugs.

[BellePepper]

Coloring is a drug now?

[neoagent1]

@BellePepper Nice misinterpreation. I don't think drugs are the answer to everything that's why I said NOT drugs.

[RJGraveyTrain]

I'd give credit to mental care professionals over religious writings, personally, having been to a few myself. I personally don't find comfort in things I don't believe in.

[Goldilocks24]

Not everyone can seek help for their mental health from a book... So I cannot say I agree with you on your point.

[Decentguy]

i totally agree with her.
since im a dyslexic, i can't read books

[Goldilocks24]

Exactly. I have PTSD and reading doesn't help me. Sitting down and reading causes my brain to wander off and cause flashbacks.