softtrade:

I think an underlying idea behind the ways a lot of mental health stuff is articulated in a therapeutic context that filters to how other people talk abt it when they are talking abt treatment/“recovery” is this completely idealistic, basically impossible approach that understands the human mind and emotions as a completely and infinitely repairable thing.

Like all of these ideas is that there is somehow, the right combinations of treatments, thought processes, barely concealed orientalist practices, etc that will make any mental situation “recovered”. Even when that doesn’t track into the material world at all. The moralization of our interior world, the idea that there’s always some sort of way to be normal/productive/emotionally-useful ignores the fact that sometimes things are just like… altered or damaged beyond repair-ability (at least to original shape)

I think the anxiety comes from a real and empathetic place: usually when something or someone is seen as no longer serving whatever purposes people considered them for, they get disposed of. But I think like a completely unreal commitment to the idea (illusion, to borrow an idea from Freud of all people) that all problems are fixable to the point of not being noticeable is a bad response to that v real problem