Unpopular Opinion
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1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
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4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
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5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
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This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
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100% agreed. 988 is the most American way to address the mental health crisis.
As you said, 988 is pretty much just a well-funded front-end for 911 99% of the time. I would literally only suggest someone call if I wanted them to kill themselves, because that's all 988 is good for.
Mental health in America is this fucked up mess of paternalistic bullshit. The nature of struggling with mental illness somehow invalidates your ability to advocate for yourself. You are “crazy” so your suggestions on what you think effective care might be do not count. Mental health facilities are allowed to lie to you, too - you are treated like a child.
I would love something like what 988 promises. I have PTSD. I have moments where I have flashbacks, I have nights where I cannot sleep because my body floods me with the panic chemicals. I would love the ability to call a number late at night and have someone listen to me, to maybe gently work my way through visualization exercises, to help calm me down. I’m not so mentally ill that I am a child that can not be trusted to know what I need, I am a person who has suffered severe abuse and has a brain that sometimes sees a certain street sign or smells something and then I am a 14 year old trying to get someone to listen to me. I need help regulating sometimes - I don’t get why this is an impossible ask.
The closest thing I have gotten to that was a random person on Washington’s child protective services line, oddly enough.
It would have been nice to have that comfort last night. Instead I drank.
There is a long history of this in America. The Yellow Wallpaper was written in 1892 FFS
The Yellow Wallpaper was published in 1892
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OP's dyslexia really threw me for a minute!