sweetschizo:

We love to say “if you’re mentally ill seek professional help” but we don’t want to talk about how adequate mental health care is unaffordable and otherwise inaccessible to many people like if we can just blame the mentally ill person for not seeking help we don’t have to think about whether we as a society are actually doing enough for the mentally ill and whether said professional help is actually realistically accessible. People don’t like hard questions and societial issues. They like being able to blame individuals for not doing the right thing so we don’t have to question the status quo and this trend is so obvious in discussions of mental health.

On top of that, we say ‘seek professional help’ as if that’s an easy fix instead of something that requires a massive amount of work and energy. Mental health care isn’t having a nice chat once a week, it’s intense, it’s difficult, it can take so much courage and strength that you somehow need to gather while you’re at your worst.

We
say ‘seek professional help’ as if that’s the one fix and mental illness occurs in a vacuum, when the truth is we can’t get to a better place while ignoring the impact oppression, poverty, micro-aggressions, etc have on our mental health.

We say ‘seek professional help’ as if

‘professionals’ are always good at their job while the truth is ‘professionals’ often have an extremely stigmatized prejudiced view of our mental health because their entire education is geared towards our stigmatization.