#skirmish #therapy #angst #acousticonetake #mentalhealth

Yesterday I had to do an intake interview for a DBT group I am just starting. I'm pretty stoked about it, but, intake interviews always suck and there are triggers, for me, that they always walk all over that I've gotten better at ignoring. Its still frustrating though. The biggest one is shrinking my frustrations with macro conditions (insane cost of rent, addictions out of control, a tyrant as President, the fact we cannot consume basically anything without becoming culpable in very deep and serious human suffering) down to "you can't control these things so just ignore them" kind of answers. It pisses me off every time because if everyone ignores it the problems just get worse and more entrenched.

More importantly -- with those macro conditions dealt with, much of the mental health and addiction problems we see, just wouldn't exist. This isn't to say that therapy and pharmaceutical help wouldn't ever be needed, but so much less often and often for different things.