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user-inactivated  ·  3393 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Survival and mental health in a capitalistic world

Century of Self is a documentary about the use of psychology to manipulating people into thinking, buying things will make you happy. The later parts are focused on Britain. My friend showed it to me when I kept wondering, why is it so expensive to get psychiatric services, but you can turn on the TV and have psychologists fuck you up for free.

I also have the depression that comes with understanding and thinking about this world. I am bipolar, so I also have megalomaniac phases, where I have to do something to fix everything. To be a bit more precise, my official diagnosis is schizoaffective, because I also have had psychotic periods, where I was completely unglued from reality. I also have auditory hallucinations, if I don't take my medication. Not to try to one up you, schizophrenics have at the least decades before the functional ones can admit that, and not scare people. Civil rights are a long way off.

My boyfriend has a son. I wonder about the stepparent thing too. So much drama.