Re:Oregon Decriminalized Hard Drugs
by lotsofpulp on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @02:29PM
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Why would mental health be separated from "normal" healthcare? Mental health involves chemical signals in the brain. Once a chemical dependency has been established, how possible is it to "talk" someone out of it in therapy?
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well, the thing with mental healthcare compared with regular healthcare is that the first bit of it is often kind of coercive?
Like folks with chest pain want it fixed.
But folks who hear voices/are addicted to something/suffer from crippling anxiety often don't want to fix it for a variety of reasons, some of which are even pretty good (such as nasty medication side effects). Crossing that hurdle is tough
And you can talk someone out of a chemical dependency. Or rather, you can talk them into suffering through it, much the same way as you can talk someone into suffering through climbing a mountain or similar.