I have composed a piece of written musings on the tools choice in clay sculpting which I put on a display on a public internet forum.
I have received following advice: Go seek therapy.
However upon checking my vaults it has become apparent that they are barren.
What should I do in this situation?
This post smacks of disingenuousness.
At the risk of being impolite, it reeks of cuckoo.
Check your local library and city/county department of health, they may run free or low cost group therapy sessions.
Since OP admitted this was “made-up clickbait and satire,” I’ll just comment for anyone stumbling upon this. You can:
- Check out a free self-help CBT book from the library. Search online for free ones, too: https://cogbtherapy.com/free-online-cbt-workbook
- Get free evidence-based practices that you can do alone at ggia.berkeley.edu
- Get free guided mindfulness meditation audio/video from https://www.uclahealth.org/uclamindful/guided-meditations
- Use health insurance to safely get transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS): https://clinicaltmssociety.org/find-a-clinic/
- Seek help in !mentalhealth@lemmy.world or !Help_Others@lemmy.blahaj.zone.
- start an IRL clay sculpting club
- socialize with IRL people
- …?
- Profit
I’m here to help you as a peer . See you in !mentalhealth@lemmy.world
This post makes no sense and has zero context. What clay sculptures? What? Huh? Why are they saying to seek therapy? Maybe provide even the minimum of context? I didn’t see how anyone could possibly give you advice based on the information you provided here.
Translation: I have written a post about my thoughts online. I was told to seek therapy, but I don’t have enough money to pay for one. What now?
Tis a joke.
Reditors say, goto therapist.
Therapists say, goto redit.
But they are all the same.
/s
I do not recommend this Van gogh method
No but seriously why people say such things as if it was some kind of magic pill, free thing
- Either they think it is some kind of no brainer solution to everything they do not like
- Or they say it as a form of derogatory remark which is doubly questionable
It’s like everything wrong with XXI century can be summed up by this phrase.
XXI century, go seek therapy, you are the worst timelineThat is not everything wrong with the 21st century - that’s just Reddit being a toxic platform. Sociopaths get off on inflicting pain - their comments aren’t about you, they’re doing it for self gratification.
The solution really depends on the problem. We don’t know why they told you to seek therapy.
Doesn’t matter, it was a made-up clickbait and satire to have some serious talk in the comments about these things
So this post is just a platform for you to vaguely criticize therapy? It sounds like it’s financially out of reach where you live and that sounds like a societal issue. But I will happily admit that a lot of what people depend on therapy could likely be much more cheaply given by having a stronger social network.
No I just want to talk, there is no malice nor ill intent
I think your post was quite unproductive as it failed to clearly state a problem then. Your post essentially boils down to “I said a thing and people on the internet trolled me for it - how am I supposed to afford the therapy they recommended” while also constructing a scenario where the therapy you were recommended was clearly just an offhand troll doing troll shit.
I’d reinforce that a strong social network can help alleviate a fair amount of our dependency on therapy if we’re focused on the cost aspect and I’m not certain what other discussion you were attempting to spur.
I don’t have any friends whatsoever since like 10 years tbh and honestly never had one. Just acquaintances
Instead of trying to lay for one in a professional setting, start dating and seek out a therapist as a significant other. The time it takes to solidify a relationship and get help that way will take less time and money than seeking it through the medical system.
Go seek therapy
My advice: budget for it, you really need one. There are lots of therapists who offer sliding scale.
why do I really need one tho, I am curious what is that you spotted that made you feel like it
its just such a non telling comment - go to therapy. why, what’s wrong, what made you uneasy?
You’re actively sabotaging yourself, your relationships, and your physical health because of your thoughts. Also you come across as more than a little unstable. I am not a therapist, but if I can get this impression reading 5 paragraphs of what you write, I would say you have serious issues.
yah I probably have lots of them mental health pokemons
thats why its so scary to go
like you know teeth repair is less scary than extraction or jaw surgery
no need to be so judgy tho my bro, we all have stuff more or less.
such is the human conditionNot trying to be judgey, just trying to give you a push. You’re right, we all have stuff. It’s how you deal with it that counts.
Why in god’s name should you need therapy for writing about clay sculpting?!
They thought I am wrong even though I am right
Either you’re trolling or you’re exaggerating.
Don’t go to the rapist. It’s a trap, unless you are into that.
Online therapy is good. One of the major downsides is it doesn’t get you going outside though, which is a major benefit of therapy at a clinic.
Other than that, make more friends and chat it out with them (join a run club in your city, for example) or use an AI therapist. There’s a lot of people who will shreik and yell at these options, but if you have no other options, they’re great
I think people will hate me tbh, that’s why I don’t join clubs or stuff like that
Not even discord servers. Not even talking to similar people or within the group that should like me cause if they hate me that would be crushing if you know what I mean
Hence I often get to know people who already hate me like alt right or some bullies, toxic ppl, because that is… less risky? Somehow. I don’t truly care about them so if they hate me this feels like nothing. but if someone who I really look up to would hate me… well, that would be rather extremely painful
Actually that would probably make me hate them psychotically as a some kind of subjective defense of identity. And what is understood by me as ‘hate’ is very sensitive. Merely sideways stare that I would interpret too much will make me go off to some deep end (but only if it is from someone in some group that I should belong to)
If it is some aggressive looking, young male with bald head and ugly stare then I will just feel like on a safari and see the dangerous wildlife that should be avoided. Scary of course, adrenaline going but not something that lasts in my mind
I am not afraid of wolves or tigers. But what I am afraid of is a woman that will thrust a knife in my heart and kill it
Yeah. I’m going to say keep trying with the therapy thing.
