Oh wow, I've been meaning to look up the comment I wrote last time this was posted. And here's a great opportunity to do so! Time to make yet another attempt...

All right, either:

• try to decide what kind of therapist is needed (difficult)
• figure out what kind of therapy/therapists are covered by insurance (time-consuming and stressful, sometimes impossible)
• provide a bunch of private information (time-consuming, difficult, and stressful)
• look through a list of relevant therapists nearby (usually easy)
• try to identify one that you might relate to or at least be able to deal with (very difficult, sometimes impossible)
• call them up one at a time to see if they're really accepting new patients (time-consuming and stressful)
• try to find a regular time that works in your schedule for the new therapist and for other obligations (difficult)
• again provide a bunch of private information (time-consuming, difficult, and stressful)
• go meet with the therapist. try to get along with them because if you don't it's your fault and you have to start all over (difficulty varies, sometimes impossible)
• do all this while dealing with whatever problem you need therapy for (difficulty varies, sometimes impossible)

Or:

• access Paracelsus: https://paracelsus-project.org/ (easy)
• translate: https://translate.google.com/ (easy)
• distill potions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrrbGRIOhCw (easy)

I know the wording's a meme, but the hell with whoever made the original post.

“Just get therapy? Why don’t I strap on my therapy helmet, and squeeze down into a therapy cannon, AND FIRE OFF INTO THERAPYLAND, WHERE THERAPISTS GROW ON THERAPIES?!!!”

“Let’s see, 500 grams quicksilver, 225 grams mercury, 20 grams ground cinnabar, and 40 grams fresh mashed castor beans. This depression potion better work!”

(Mercury is difficult to vomit out in large quantities because it’s quite heavy. No backsies on this potion)

People in these memes always talking about therapy as if one simply goes there and like it works in the first place

Lol everyone says therapy

Can therapy make the ICE Agents go away?

Can therapy change the fact that my original home country has a bunch of authoritarian "communist" thugs in government? The thugs that never wanted me to be born.

(apologies for the rant)

Well, did it work?

Aah yes, therapy, the instant cure-all for brain issues. How foolish of me to think that therapy was only talking through your problems and getting professional advice on how to cope better with the crushing reality that we're all just wage slave servants of the 1%.

What a fool I was.

The just go to therapy shit is more or less the same as "have you tried yoga". I have gone to therapy but therapy isn't some magic cure-all nor will it help with material conditions being shit. I have autism and probably C-PTSD, therapy ain't gonna help anymore for the simple fact that my problems are materiall in nature since Society is shit and it's hard for me to even find a job let alone one that won't push me towards a meltdown.

studying Paraclesus, translating 1600s alchemical texts and distilling potions is the therapy.

Jokes aside this channel is sick af

Studying all that is cheaper than therapy. Trust me, if I could afford the financial commitment I'd go again.

I think that when we are attacking mental health issues, we need to think of it like the swiss cheese model of security in IT, except that we are on offense instead of defense.

Everything needs to be on the table. Mental health affects how it feels to exist, which is pretty damn important when it comes to quality of life and finding some fulfillment, comfort, happiness, etc.

There is usually not a single thing that "cures" somebody. And if there is such a single thing that works so wonderfully, it certainly does not work that well for the vast majority of people.

Therapy really doesnt help. For some people it can be amazing, but it just won't work for everyone and that is ok.

For me personally, I'm just too different from how the therapists wanted me to be (I know this sounds weird, I will explain). They (plural, I've seen multiple) would try to convince me I can and do experience things that "are normal human feelings that everyone experiences", and didn't seem to be able to understand the things I was telling them I actually experience. They could not understand that I simply do not think in any conventional manner and do not have the same thoughts other people do. And I am not saying "Oh I think differently I am such an intellectual, infinitely superior to mere mortals". There are a lot of things my brain cannot do at all, I will never be able to drive a car, and can't follow cooking recipies very well. They all had the same mindset, that somewhere in my brain the things they were looking for existed. I am lucky that I never had any serious mental health issues, I only wanted to go to ensure that I wouldn't have an issue in the future, since I am more likely to experience them, due to being significantly disabled

"Jesus and mental health

are for those who can help themselves.

What good is that when you live in hell

on earth?"

Barenaked Ladies - War on drugs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFMRVa5Kuy4

Being an alchemist grants you immortality

Hey, nice, I've been falling asleep to some of this guy's videos lately.

extra humorous if alchemy is only taken as a literal proto-chemistry, disregarding its symbolic roots as proto-psychology (i.e.a type of self-work therapy)