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Skill issues – Dialectical Behavior Therapy and its discontents (2024)

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Post by wakawaka28 »

harimau777 wrote: post #23
astrange wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But not before encouraging everyone to blame things on "capitalism" which even Marx would have said would be solved by more capitalism. (Namely cost of living in Anglo countries, which is largely caused by their practically feudalist land usage policies.)

I mean, late stage capitalism hasn't been working out so great; so he kind of has a point.

There is no such thing as late stage capitalism. Or I should say, it's a misnomer. When people refer to late stage capitalism, they are usually complaining about market failures due to globalism, governmental issues, difficulties adapting to automation, or extreme envy of those who have gotten rich. Free markets generally work well for everyone, except for rare circumstances like monopolies or unfair competition.

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Post by lloyd5293 »

w10-1 wrote: post #29

Worth reading for all. This article situates Dialectical Behavior Therapy relative to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, dialectical philosophy, Zen/Mindfulness, and social movements. It lays out the limits of DBT, and shows why it is an improvement over (the dominant) CBT (which commenters seem to confuse it with). Even if you're not interested in any therapy at all, it helps to understand the distinctions and how this t…

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Post by vintermann »

watwut wrote: post #30
vintermann wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Be careful here. There's a pattern to suicide: people don't commit suicide merely because they're miserable, or because they think their situation is hopeless. It is also necessary to believe that you have lots of options, but all of them are unacceptably bad . Indian sustenance farmers didn't have high rates of suicide, until they got access to microcredit. Schizophrenics, who often have distorted feelings of agency…

The bog reason for male suicides being higher is having higher gun ownership. It makes effective suicide easier.

It's not. It's also true in countries without high gun ownership.

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Post by layla5alive »

wakawaka28 wrote: post #31
harimau777 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, late stage capitalism hasn't been working out so great; so he kind of has a point.

There is no such thing as late stage capitalism. Or I should say, it's a misnomer. When people refer to late stage capitalism, they are usually complaining about market failures due to globalism, governmental issues, difficulties adapting to automation, or extreme envy of those who have gotten rich. Free markets generally work well for everyone, except for rare circumstances like monopolies or unfair competition.

> Free markets generally work well for everyone, except for rare circumstances like monopolies or unfair competition.

"Free markets generally work well for everyone, except for regular circumstances like monopolies or unfair competition."

Fixed it for you.

Re: Skill issues – Dialectical Behavior Therapy and its discontents (2024)

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Post by wakawaka28 »

layla5alive wrote: post #34
wakawaka28 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is no such thing as late stage capitalism. Or I should say, it's a misnomer. When people refer to late stage capitalism, they are usually complaining about market failures due to globalism, governmental issues, difficulties adapting to automation, or extreme envy of those who have gotten rich. Free markets generally work well for everyone, except for rare circumstances like monopolies or unfair competition.

> Free markets generally work well for everyone, except for rare circumstances like monopolies or unfair competition. "Free markets generally work well for everyone, except for regular circumstances like monopolies or unfair competition." Fixed it for you.

Those cases do arise occasionally or even "regularly" but with proper regulation, these problems are quickly and satisfactorily corrected. There is always a possibility of regulatory capture. The ultimate form of regulatory capture is communism, lol.

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Post by y0eswddl »

watwut wrote: post #30
vintermann wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Be careful here. There's a pattern to suicide: people don't commit suicide merely because they're miserable, or because they think their situation is hopeless. It is also necessary to believe that you have lots of options, but all of them are unacceptably bad . Indian sustenance farmers didn't have high rates of suicide, until they got access to microcredit. Schizophrenics, who often have distorted feelings of agency…

The bog reason for male suicides being higher is having higher gun ownership. It makes effective suicide easier.

I remember "hearing" recently that it's because our society conditions (most certain types) men to feel entitled to access and success; tie their self-worth and value as a human to their level of success; and to deem it a personal failure when they don't.

These things together end up making for a personal despair that more often results in suicide.

That's why the white make suicide rate I'm the US is so proportionately high.

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