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Politics thread:

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[(Anonymous)]

I hate all of this. I hate being disabled. I hate that this means I'm probably going to die here, in the US, in this administration and dictatorship. I hate that unless I'm rich I can't leave and go to another country because disability automatically qualifies me. I hate so much and I'm so scared and tired. I want to wake up feeling hopeful instead of full of dead.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean this kindly and not meanly or sarcastically: Seek help. Professional help, because this "venting" here isn't helping you and we are not trained in how to do it. Even if it is toll free helplines or a support group. Get genuine actual mental health help. Please.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think this is just a mental health thing. This Big Ugly Bill is really going to fuck over a lot of people if it gets passed in its current state. There are people literally at risk of dying if they lose their Medicaid coverage. So I completely understand the need for OP's rant. It's true that we can't help them directly, but for those of us in the USA, we can call our elected officials and pressure the shit out of them to NOT vote for the bill.

[(Anonymous)]

DA - I agree there are legitimate worries, but there are still things OP can do for their own mental health, and while I love a good vent session as much as the next anon, posting here is not going to help them. And if they're the same disabled anon that's posted the same style of vents before, anyone offering help will be pretty rudely rebuffed.

[(Anonymous)]

The only one I see being rude here rn is you though. You're mad they aren't venting the right way.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay has anyone actually offered this person help instead of platitudes and telling them to get therapy and "it won't be that bad, you'll be fine?" Because not once have I seen anyone offer help here, just saying that somehow Trump won't cause the problems this person is worried about. That they're overreacting.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT — sometimes people just need to vent, and sometimes their situations genuinely suck shit and no amount of positive thinking will make them not suck shit.

Like, if OP is LGBT+, the Trump admin just zeroed out the budget for and issued a stop work order so that the national suicide hotline no longer offers LGBT+ support. Planned Parenthood will no longer receive federal Medicaid funding for non-abortion services, and in some places they're the only source of basic screenings and care. Rural hospitals are and will be closing. As for mental health care, there are nowhere near enough mental health professionals to help everyone that needs help, especially everyone too poor to pay. Sometimes there's no help to be had.

And sometimes people need to vent, because shit sucks.

[(Anonymous)]

DA - I agree that venting is healthy and sometimes you just need to get that out into the world so you can feel better and move on. And I get it, the US (and the world) is in a sucky place especially for marginalized people. But I feel like a lot of people don't actually know what healthy venting vs emotional dumping is. Healthy venting includes things like "talking through a negative feeling with the goal of understanding why something bothered you and how to better respond in the future*" - but that's not what OP is doing.

*from this article: https://time.com/7098679/is-venting-healthy/

[hey_hey_hey]

Any coping skills learned in therapy are going to mean fuck all if they lose their Medicaid.

[(Anonymous)]

But they aren't VENTING THE RIGHT WAY, don'cha know!!!! They aren't being CONSTRUCTIVE ENOUGH!!!

AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

And how am I going to afford therapy if this bill passes and Medicaid is fucked over? I live on disability. It pays my bills and for enough food to get by and that's enough. Toll free lines do jack shit but make sure you aren't actively suicidal and even then they don't put forth much effort. Sorry I'm not quietly disabled and seeking the right help so you can ignore the problems pf the lesser since you seem to have no worries about this at all, I guess?

Re: AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Honestly just use Chat GPT as a therapist. It's not half bad and it's available 24/7. I've played with the free and paid versions courtesy of a tech bro family member and the paid version isn't that different especially if you don't care about its "art generation" feature. If you tell it to do searches for resources then it can find the surface level stuff. It's helped me with my medication and it explains how shit works. It's been helpful for bouncing ideas off of and getting experiences out of my head.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't mean this unkindly either but there is no mental health help available. Everyone is full up.

Personally I think there's going to be even more people using Chat GPT as a therapist.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I refuse to ever touch ChatGPT. So at least there's that.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe if we subtly train ChatGPT on a certain New Yorker...

[(Anonymous)]

Oh my god you’re doing the ‘have you just tried being happy?’ thing but completely unironically. If what Trump wants to do gets passed so many people are going to be driven into awful situations and likely die, this is not a small thing they’re scared about or at all unfounded.

OP of this comment chain: I’m so sorry, I don’t have any advice to give because I don’t know where to start, I just hope the bill gets cut down so much it doesn’t impact as badly. But I know that’s not much of a balm, I just hope you will be as okay as you can be.

[(Anonymous)]

I want to hope, but Trump is already telling them to ignore the Parliamentarian and just pass it as-is. I'm scared he will, once again, get his wish.

[nanslice]

I've cried more than once over the knowledge that my mom is going to die under his presidency. I truly hate it.

AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sorry. I can only hope she somehow survives this regime. :c I know, I KNOW, it will all fall apart when he dies. Cults tend to. But ugh. I just don't have that hope I'll be here in the end of it.

Re: AYRT

[nanslice]

Oh, she won't. Cancer, inoperable.

I hope it all falls apart when he dies. I hope so. He's really gotten a lot done in the last little bit.

But he's old and in terrible health. You can outlast him.

[(Anonymous)]

Same. I moved close to the border years ago specifically so that if I needed to I could make a run for it but hoping that things would never get that bad. I keep seeing people saying we're "overreacting" to kids in cages, defunding the FDA, a fucking military parade like we're goddamned North Korea, kids working the overnight shift in meat factories, radioactive roads, etc etc. It's so goddamned tiring to see this happening and knowing where they want it to go and everyone around you just pretending that it's normal(ish). "Oh, we survived Covid, we'll survive this." Plenty of "us" didn't survive covid, you dicks, and a lot of "us" won't survive this either. It's so enraging but I don't even have the energy to rage about it anymore.

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously. And we're always told it won't be that bad, we won't lose our insurance, etc. But you just know, given how he's talked, he's going to decide blue states get no funding for Medicaid and such--whether we're disabled or not. But we will, once again, be told we're overreacting.

[(Anonymous)]

I just got diagnosed with autism in January. I deliberately went to a private clinic and paid out of pocket so that no one other than them had any record of it. And then saw the news that RFK wanted to make a list of all the autistics (which would include my nephew who is disabled by autism). And I looked around, and was thinking to myself... you guys see where this is going, right? You see this, right? You paid attention in history class and have pattern recognition, right??

I'm trying to make plans to include my nephew in that run, but he's half the country away.

[(Anonymous)]

I am sorry you're going through this OP.

Here's access to free therapy:

https://www.7cups.com/
I am looking for otehr resources as well.