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yaywoo t1_it5mvnw wrote

No, wrong, that’s not at all what it means. Turning something negative into a positive is an attempt to help the person reframe the situation, which is a provenly effective technique in CBT. Literally no one does this to make himself feel better. It’s an attempt to make the suffering person feel better. This quote is stupid trash.

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tenebrls t1_it7bh0z wrote

You say that as if psychiatry isn’t itself a societal device for ensuring it’s own self survival by coercing/forcing aberrant individuals from ascribing themselves to the principles that allows the continual propagation of said society. While sometimes there can certainly be a bit of overlap, at the end of the day, CBT, other forms of thought reframing, and more intensive treatment options are not primarily focused on giving the patient as objective and impassive a view on life as possible as it is to bring them into harmony with the principles of the dominant society, as if that society and everything in it necessarily deserves to exist in the first place.

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yaywoo t1_it7k1rh wrote

this is embarrassingly cringey

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