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 They look at ther future and see global warming, wwIII, unemployement, political unstability, poison in everything  they eat, the earth and animals dying all around them. 

I saw this video where someone was asking french teens in the 50s how they imagine the future would be. The war hadn’t been over for long and yet it was all positive with like peace and flying cars and such. Then they went and ask the same questions to nowadays teens and hell that was depressing. Some still had hope, but it was just that “well I hope I’ll have a nice house and maybe some kid” but there was such a hesitancy to it, like they didn’t dare to hope too much. 

People mock Greta Thunberg but what they don’t get is that when she said “you stole my dreams”, it was the truth. 

this was controversial when it was first added, because it contradicted the favorite “mental illness is always internal chemical imbalances that can be fixed with therapy and medication” paradigm. clinicians have gotten used to it now, but, honestly, we need to have another look at the concept.

is it mental illness if your circumstances are genuinely hopeless? is it mental illness if your environment makes it impossible to imagine a future for yourself? when the rational response to an irrational situation is chronic anxiety and depression? a lot of therapists and clinicians aren’t equipped to think about mental health in the context of climate change and global fascism, because they’re trained in a tradition that says the only problems that could impair a person’s functioning in this way are internal, always, and can be treated by changing the individual. they either don’t think about the wider world as a factor, or when they do they’re just as helpless to do anything about it as you are.