"We need more treatment options for these people."
Absolutely true. I think the question is also the degree to which society encourages people to lean into their feelings of pain and trauma, rather than pulling themselves out of them.
As you say, there need to be more and better options to help people to pull themselves out, but society al…
"We need more treatment options for these people."
Absolutely true. I think the question is also the degree to which society encourages people to lean into their feelings of pain and trauma, rather than pulling themselves out of them.
As you say, there need to be more and better options to help people to pull themselves out, but society also needs to stop incentivising people to find and exaggerate examples of trauma for virtue/victimhood points.
I've had countless conversations, for example, where I've called somebody out for exaggerating or lying about the "traumas" inherent in being a black person. But people try these lies and exaggerations because they can be used as justifications for all kinds of bad behaviour. And garner sympathy and defence from onlookers.
This isn't a "black' problem, of course. It's a human problem. We all learn, right from the time we're babies, that there are advantages to gaming people's sympathy. But it's become a bit of an epidemic lately. And ultimately, hurts the people doing it the most .
"We need more treatment options for these people."
Absolutely true. I think the question is also the degree to which society encourages people to lean into their feelings of pain and trauma, rather than pulling themselves out of them.
As you say, there need to be more and better options to help people to pull themselves out, but society also needs to stop incentivising people to find and exaggerate examples of trauma for virtue/victimhood points.
I've had countless conversations, for example, where I've called somebody out for exaggerating or lying about the "traumas" inherent in being a black person. But people try these lies and exaggerations because they can be used as justifications for all kinds of bad behaviour. And garner sympathy and defence from onlookers.
This isn't a "black' problem, of course. It's a human problem. We all learn, right from the time we're babies, that there are advantages to gaming people's sympathy. But it's become a bit of an epidemic lately. And ultimately, hurts the people doing it the most .