thistherapylife:

missmentelle:

Health insurance is a mental health issue. I can’t help a client who can’t afford to see me. 

Housing is a mental health issue. I can’t use therapy to help a client whose depression and anxiety come directly from sleeping in the streets. 

Food insecurity is a mental health issue. I can’t help a client who isn’t taking their medication because their pills say “take with food” and they have nothing to eat.

Healthcare is a mental health issue. I can’t help a client whose “depression” is actually a thyroid condition they can’t afford to get treated. 

Wages are a mental health issue. I can’t help a client whose anxiety comes from the fact that they are one missed shift away from not being able to make rent.

Child care is a mental health issue. I can’t help a client who works 80 hours per week to afford daycare, and doesn’t have the time or energy left to come see me. 

Drug policing is a mental health issue. I can’t help a client who ended up in prison because they got caught self-medicating with illegal substances. 

Police brutality is a mental health issue. I can’t help a client whose ‘anxiety’ is a very real and justified fear of ending up as a hashtag. 

If you’re going to make a stand for improving mental health, you have to understand that addressing mental health goes way beyond hiring more therapists and talking about mental health on social media. If we’re really serious about tackling this mental health problem as a country, it means rolling up our sleeves and taking down the barriers that prevent people from getting the help they need – even if those people are different than us, lead different lives, and make choices we don’t agree with. 

We aren’t “fixing” mental health unless we’re fixing it for everybody. 

YES YES YES. All of this.

I don’t believe in guilty pleasures. If you fucking like something, like it. That’s what’s wrong with our generation: that residual punk rock guilt, like, “You’re not supposed to like that. That’s not fucking cool.” Don’t fucking think it’s not cool to like Britney Spears’ “Toxic.” It is cool to like Britney Spears’ “Toxic”! Why the fuck not? Fuck you! That’s who I am, goddamn it! That whole guilty pleasure thing is full of fucking shit.

Dave Grohl (via perrfectly)

tockthewatchdog:

louis has to be the one to write the tell all because i trust him to give it to us straight. if harry wrote it it would be the vaguest thing ever written entirely in acrostic poetry and like, Significant Embroidery and would communicate literally nothing, zayn would interrupt every chapter to be like “and then i smoked weed and had sex with five fans at once”, liam’s would be a) ghostwritten and b) written way too diplomatically and he would only mention bad things if they could be respun as funny anecdotes. and nialls would be the same as liam’s except with even less information

niallspringsteen:

you know what the coolest thing – ok, at least one majorly cool thing – about all of 1d’s solo music?? it’s the way their individual styles filtered into the band’s music. like, there’s louis’s upbeat-sounding stuff on songs like ‘no control,’ harry’s big throwback style on songs like ‘what a feeling,’ niall’s stripped-back tendencies on ‘fool’s gold,’ and liam on bops like ‘better than words’ …like, for all that critics just CANNOT BELIEVE these are those kids from the boyband, they’re really just exactly who they always were