I hate to say it, but now isn’t the only time it’s a problem.

This whole “you just need to practice more CBT skills” has been bullshit for like twenty fucking years or more.

I can “check the facts” all I want, if the facts are that things are irreparably and totally fucked and that this irreparability is hurting me directly I can’t “happy thoughts” my fucking way out of it.

I’m really tired of being told “you can’t change other people, so you need to work on yourself” when other people are allowed to be giant assholes their whole lives who never have to put one ounce of work into themselves and it’s me and everyone else who is a halfway decent person who has to spend their lives fucking working on ourselves.

The system is god damned broken and has been god damned broken when we practically reward the worst of us with never having to try to do better while telling the best of us that we just have to do better.

I’m really, really over it.

Being anxious and depressed is directly related to your awareness of the world around you. It’s not okay to be okay.

this is exactly why therapists seem to be total nutjobs in my opinion, they don’t have actual solutions that work for any case where the symptoms are justified by the climate other than “leave the climate that’s justifying it”.