i feel like i've said this before, but an important detail i don't think many people consider about voluntary or involuntary care for mental health or addiction is that it's not that easy to put a pause on your life to seek or be in care. we are societally not set up for it. - ThreadSky

akkabah.bsky.social • 12 days ago

i feel like i've said this before, but an important detail i don't think many people consider about voluntary or involuntary care for mental health or addiction is that it's not that easy to put a pause on your life to seek or be in care. we are societally not set up for it.

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akkabah.bsky.social•12 days ago

(who will pay your rent or mortgage while you're away? will you lose your house? who will look after your kids, if you have kids? depending on what your familial / social safety net looks like, "care" might further destabilize all the sort of basic pillars of life.)

akkabah.bsky.social•12 days ago

(This is where, if it hasn't any sooner, the limits of "care" hit up against the fact that disability rates keep people destabilized & in poverty. The main goal of "care" is often to return you to being a "productive" member of society. But like uh what if you can't? What if you can't do that.)

jaynoelthefirst.bsky.social•12 days ago

A big part that treatment providers/hospitals don’t factor in, as well, is the extra stressors of returning to your life. The stressors from before are still there, plus extra bills, lost jobs/homes, etc. It’s so hard to get better, if you ever can.

aridublion.bsky.social•12 days ago

OMG this! On local FB their “solutions” to homelessness all lead to making people productive so they can eventually pay rent somewhere and for not shelter is a camp at the Resource Recovery Centre or maybe out at the shuttered fish farm 25kms up the logging main.

akkabah.bsky.social•12 days ago

Dear god. (The dump?!?)

aridublion.bsky.social•12 days ago

Yes, the dump.

akkabah.bsky.social•12 days ago

I… sometimes really wonder if people hear themselves.

jessnimm.bsky.social•11 days ago

I’ve had multiple Veterans who really want to enter residential care and would likely benefit from it decline admission because of no one to watch their pets.

lilybrowndog.bsky.social•12 days ago

Oh my god, this is so true. For a working class person, going into care or rehab has devastating repercussions on them and anyone who depends on them. Our society does not have a systems in place to give adequate support during this period of upheaval.

lapanique.bsky.social•12 days ago

I found myself *jealous* of people who could go into hospital (which is itself mad, it's not a great place to be) because I had to just keep 9-5ing through it all.

akkabah.bsky.social•12 days ago

yeah! yeah. yeah. oh man. (yeah.)

forethoughtgirl.bsky.social•12 days ago

Don't be jealous. I had to sue to be treated, and it totally sucked.

lapanique.bsky.social•12 days ago

No, I had someone rap me a little, with care, when I said so (poorly). In time I realized what I was jealous of was the time and space to get better. Or what I perceived as such anyway.

forethoughtgirl.bsky.social•12 days ago

🫂🫂🫂

agawilmot.bsky.social•12 days ago

I came close to self-admitting myself for a time last year. Thankfully was able to avoid doing so, but such thoughts definitely ran through my head—I'm a full-time freelancer and I feared I would be instantly replaced in all areas of my life if I took that step.

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