Now that I’ve caught you with the clickbait title,

Basically every post has included some form of toxic self-hate, minus one or two mentioning exercise. While I do like being able to confront these in the first place, the purported goals and name of this community gives people who are giving the exact wrong advice far too much credibility, and the last thing these people need is a comment with the most upbears regurgitating individualistic self-help concepts at them.

If we’re going to keep this sort of community around, I suggest doing some serious research and basing it off of DBT, and integrating serious critiques of CBT style mental healthcare and improvement.

I am just some random nerd who is terrible at self-improvement at general, so I understand taking this with some serious doubt. But I just had to get this off my chest.

Thank you, WithoutFurtherBelay

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Idk if that’s what academics call it, but there’s a whole history to this in the us that starts more or less with hippies doing “eastern philosophy” for individualistic self help purposes, ties in to cults in the seventies, morphed in to self help books, late night tv ads selling supplements and fitness videos, all kinds of fad diets, more weird cults. And in the last few years it’s been sigma dorks, insta influencers selling supplmenets, all that. Self help and adjacent stuff like protein supplements and weight loss and all kinds of mystical toxin cleansing bs are a pretty big industry in the us, i think a few billion. I don’t have any specific reading for it, i’ve kind of pieced it together from a bunch of articles over the years, and also living through a lot of it since the 90s.