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  • wscholermann@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    It’s vaguely annoying how when anything bad happens the default response is “here, have some counselling”. In so many cases what needs to change is someone’s circumstances, and quickly. And a quick chat is not going to fix that.

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      My partner keeps getting that while she’s in hospital.

      All we really needed was what you mentioned, a change of circumstance and the allowance of her coming back home or allowing me to visit her to give her support.

      They wouldn’t listen.

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        1 year ago

        You’d think by this point they’d begin to grasp the idea that the sheer volume they deal with makes them start treating people like slabs of meat for processing. This has rather deleterious effects on the person in question, especially since hospitalisation is already a wholesale nostril rape upon their agency

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      Love me some counselling, if my circumstances allowed me to pay for it lol.

      A quick chat is what I do when I update my mates, i need indepth reprogramming loool

    • SituationCake@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      I also think we’re living in an era of toxic positivity. There no allowance for sadness, hurt, worry etc. Everything must be fixed! Live love laugh! Just meditate it away! We are human and shit happens and sometimes we are not OK. And that’s OK.