Ok but did it work?
MEN.
Submitted 10 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 months ago
Ledericas@lemm.ee 10 months ago
involves quicksilver, aka mercury, potentially organo-mercury.
Allero@lemmy.today 10 months ago
I bet it was alcohol-based
synae@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Congratulations, it works. You now have depression!
sammer510@hexbear.net 10 months ago
God forbid a white boy catch a vibe
TheLastHero@hexbear.net 10 months ago
maybe the real therapy was the potions we distilled along the way
woodenghost@hexbear.net 10 months ago
And maybe the real potion was the therapy we went to along the way along the way
Sergio@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
All right, either:
- try to decide what kind of therapist is needed (difficult)
- figure out what kind of therapy/therapists are covered by insurance (time-consuming and stressful, sometimes impossible)
- provide a bunch of private information (time-consuming, difficult, and stressful)
- look through a list of relevant therapists nearby (usually easy)
- try to identify one that you might relate to or at least be able to deal with (very difficult, sometimes impossible)
- call them up one at a time to see if they’re really accepting new patients (time-consuming and stressful)
- try to find a regular time that works in your schedule for the new therapist and for other obligations (difficult)
- again provide a bunch of private information (time-consuming, difficult, and stressful)
- go meet with the therapist. try to get along with them because if you don’t it’s your fault and you have to start all over (difficulty varies, sometimes impossible)
- do all this while dealing with whatever problem you need therapy for (difficulty varies, sometimes impossible)
Or:
- access Paracelsus: paracelsus-project.org (easy)
- translate: translate.google.com (easy)
- distill potions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrrbGRIOhCw (easy)
I know the wording’s a meme, but the hell with whoever made the original post. Fuckem.
flora_explora@beehaw.org 10 months ago
I get that it’s hard, I was in the same boat multiple times. Everyone experiences the problems you list and I guess women and non-binary people actually have it worse because of on average greater financial instability and dependence on others.
But the issue is, for therapy to work you have to acknowledge you have a problem, be willing to reflect upon yourself and change some own misconceptions. I feel like cis men have great difficulty with that and therefore avoid therapy.
Sergio@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
I didn’t say anything about gender, and I agree with everything in your comment. In addition, I maintain that the original post’s divide-and-conquer victim-blaming is one of the worst possible takes on the fact that accessing mental health care (in the US) is harder than performing esoteric medieval alchemy.
Inucune@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Find only 2 therapists in your area, one rejects your application, and the other double bills you.
glitchdx@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Let’s also take into consideration that if you’re in the US, the current administration wants to make a database of neurodivergent people to make it easier to find them and send them off to camps later. It is actively dangerous to go to therapy.
luciole@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Extra spoon of lead for me, I got a sweet tooth 🥰
BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 10 months ago
Okay but I want to know where they got that stovetop alembic from. Were they just hanging out on Amazon the entire time while I had to struggle with wok distillation?
Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 10 months ago
gnufuu@infosec.pub 10 months ago
That guy’s name is Dr. Justin Sledge and his Occultism channel is the first one I found that doesn’t make me cringe.
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 10 months ago
He’s also got great politics and taste in music.
Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
He’s a hero to us all! Without him, how would you have ever heard of the clerical necromantic underground ? (Which will be the band of my next black metal band, yes, thanks for asking)
Shuilishu@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
Justin Sledge is awesome
Carrolade@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The idea of imbibing potions whose recipes predate our awareness of things like radium or mercury toxicity somewhat disturbs me.
GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 10 months ago
Thankfully he didn’t actually put in any of the dangerous ingredients,
bratorange@feddit.org 10 months ago
Men you know hard it is to get therapy?
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And then once you have the means, finding the right one…? This post seems tone deaf
Deme@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
The wording is a meme, but yeah, somewhat detached from reality nowadays.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 10 months ago
To be clear: the historical treatment for too much black bile (melancholic) is to shit it out with laxatives.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
You ever go a long time without a good shit? Those alchemists may have been on to something.
inconel@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
gut microbiome’s link to gut-brain axis and depreasion so partial points earned? laxatives usually have adverse effect on gut microbiome tho
match@pawb.social 10 months ago
yeah you are going to want to combine this with probiotics
Nikls94@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Weird take, but blood-letting is a treatment against microplastics. As is menstruation and donating blood, but the first one is more medieval.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s a treadmill. You have to eat and drink more micro plastics to replace the lost blood. Bloodletting was the opposite you wanted to do with melancholic illness btw. You wanted to increase sanguine humor so you ate and drank sanguine foods while taking laxatives.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
The solution to pollution is dilution!
GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I did therapy for a little while a few years ago. I quit after the third week of listening to my “therapist” talk about his wife’s after church activities, and attempting to convert me to a Southern Baptist.
I’ll take the mercury.