is therapy good? or is it god?
But we should also remember that so much of what we call ‘madness’ or ‘mental illness’ is actually just behaviour that does not lend itself well to the capitalist economic system. Politicising mental health means questioning why we call certain things madness or mental illness, and allowing people to make their own minds up about their experiences... See more
Dazed • This New Book Asks Whether Capitalism Really Is Driving Us All Crazy
Modern religions
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Matt Klein • Modern Religions For A Lonely World
Has Therapy Become the New Religion? - Therapy Reimagined
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The goal of religion should be to face death in the realist way possible. The common and shallow practice of religion today is about offloading the worry. What if you simulated it, faced it, confronted it? Instead, we abstract it into language and make it soft so we never get swallowed in it. Religion is real when it’s terrifying and hard and
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“Some seek the comfort of their therapist’s office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.”
Dean Karnazes
Steve Mueller • 60 Inspiring and Motivating Running Quotes | Planet of Success
No one has yet decided on the name for the force that has come to unseat liberalism. Some say it’s “Social Justice.” The author Rod Dreher has called it “therapeutic totalitarianism.” The writer Wesley Yang refers to it as “the successor ideology”—as in, the successor to liberalism.
At some point, it will have a formal name, one that properly... See more
At some point, it will have a formal name, one that properly... See more
Of course, therapy and its vernacular are not solely to blame for our era of isolation. Rather, therapy and other tools of introspection have become ways to justify our lack of access to external stimulation. Instead of using therapy to untangle our desires and fears so that we may effectively act on them, therapy becomes the goal in itself—to... See more
