It kind of puzzles me though about how many people need mental health-care now and why. Is it the way society is now? And if so, what part of society? I.e., is it people (doctors, the media, the public, friends, family etc) telling us we need it so we fool ourselves into thinking we need it and end up acting crazy? Or is it that society now molds us in a negative way to make us ACTUALLY require it? It also scares me how doctors seem to want to throw pills at everything. Do we really need them? I understand some people DO need them, but out of all the millions of people who get given them, what percentage actually need them, and was I one of them? I tend to question that kind of thing a lot, because the mind is an extremely special, complex and delicate thing that we haven't even begun to comprehend and that is constantly decaying and degrading - you only have one and once you screw it up, other than recoverable damage, that's it, so you need to make the most of what you have, while you have it.
A great therapist can save your life, but a bad one can ruin it more than none at all, that's why I feel it's so important to make sure whoever you see or whoever assesses you absolutely knows what they're doing. I went catatonic for a month and when I snapped out of it, I never quite came right. I used to be reasonably average socially, despite being horribly depressed - I'd talk like average girls do. Now I find it hard to verbally talk to anyone so I don't.
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