What A Planet Rebooted - Stories from the World of EMS

[Cousin Strawberry]

Why the fuck don't they fund metal health infrastructure and get these dual diagnosis folks the help they need? It seems we're spending dollars to save pennies when it's all said and done.

The whole world dumped their mentally ill out into society 30+ years ago and we're still dealing with the consequences

[Meds]

Why the fuck don't they fund metal health infrastructure and get these dual diagnosis folks the help they need?

Because the self-righteous, woke-leaning, self-aggrandizing, leftists…..that’s why.

[2Fingers]

Why the fuck don't they fund metal health infrastructure and get these dual diagnosis folks the help they need?

Because the self-righteous, woke-leaning, self-aggrandizing, leftists…..that’s why.

Mëds I agree 1,000,000% and I am self-righteous woke dude who just loves Swedish hockey players.

Seriously though, the public wants something done and the NDP have no balls. The conservatives are to busy with other party things to ever get their shit together and form government.

[5thhorseman]

Hey Mëds, I know you said you would do a further write-up, but a quick question first. I don't know how much you are able to discern the background of the addicts that take you away from your real work but how much it would you say is mental health vs trauma vs homelessness/poverty as the cause for people descending into this hopeless cycle?

[Meds]

Hey Mëds, I know you said you would do a further write-up, but a quick question first. I don't know how much you are able to discern the background of the addicts that take you away from your real work but how much it would you say is mental health vs trauma vs homelessness/poverty as the cause for people descending into this hopeless cycle?

I couldn't put percentages to it, tbh 5th.

I'd say that determining the mental health side of it would be a very difficult thing for even experts to do simply because the damage done by the drug use can actually cause mental health disorders. At that point it becomes a chicken or the egg diagnosis at best.

If you mean physical trauma resulting in addiction to pain killers.....that is probably the lowest occurring cause in my experience with these people. If you mean social/psychological trauma, different story, but again, psychological trauma is just another way to describe mental health.

The homelessness/poverty side of things is usually the result, not the cause.

Honestly, if you want a long-term solution, address the social side of things at a root level. Start putting the funding into family wellness and building internal self-confidence in children. Actually start appropriately staffing schools, limiting class sizes, developing curriculum and environments that strengthen and prepare young minds.....the woke soft gloved approach is producing muffins who cannot handle the slightest hardship, and when something comes along, that our generation would consider to be the smallest of hurdles or speed bumps, young people go into a massive spiral. Ask them to actually achieve via earned merit and watch them scream "unfair"! The under-30 addicts on the street are by and large a symptom of mental fragility that is a product of nurture, not nature. I'm gonna stop with the elaboration here, and just go back to the premise of the root. Fix the home, fix the world.

It's no different than what we see in our indigenous populations right now. The generational trauma that everyone talks about.....it's being passed on because the approach by our idiot policy makers is to try and fix the young generation. They are automatically fighting a war on two fronts. First with the target, but then with the home they live in that is delivering a totally contrary message. I'm not advocating for a revival of residential schools, I'm advocating for going in and doing the work with the grandparents. Repair the damage there, and then move to the parents, and then to the children. That way when you are on the youngest generation you are working with the people who have the highest role in the nurturing department.

While accomplishing that you need to transition back to meritocracy and achievement. When people are recognized for their achievements they build a sense of pride in that, it promotes positive self-image, good mental health. The successful rehab programs are the ones where they get the individual clean and then move them along into having to actually "earn their keep".

[5thhorseman]

I've heard an observation that the default state of teenagers used to be boredom. Nowadays it is anxiety. That lines up with your statement about mental fragility.

My wife is back in school as a mature student. She says young adults don't even know how to talk to people anymore. If they're interested in someone they pass messages through several intermediaries like junior highschoolers They are socially awkward. Nonstop phone usage has created a lot of social ineptitude.

[donlever]

Robots...watching people wander about (teens and adults) with their face glued to their phones is mind numbing.

Speaking on requiring EMS attention, sauntering across crosswalks with no clue whether cars are stopping or not, paying zero attention other than to a dancing nymph on Tik Tok.

Our society is doomed....

.....those of you with kids, parent them the right way and set them on their path....ruling their space is available in droves and far easier than when we (or our parents) were fighting for their/our pile of gold.

[Cookie La Rue]

Robots...watching people wander about (teens and adults) with their face glued to their phones is mind numbing.

Sad but true.

[Cousin Strawberry]

*With the exception of reels of bouncing funbags and camel toe yoga. That shit requires constant study

[Meds]

I've heard an observation that the default state of teenagers used to be boredom. Nowadays it is anxiety. That lines up with your statement about mental fragility.

My wife is back in school as a mature student. She says young adults don't even know how to talk to people anymore. If they're interested in someone they pass messages through several intermediaries like junior highschoolers They are socially awkward. Nonstop phone usage has created a lot of social ineptitude.

The following links from what you say about anxiety and what Donny relates about the wandering about glued to phones.

Social media.

Imagine growing up through your formative teen years, the time that has historically been the period of life where the individual develops their worldview, their sense of worth and confidence, works to reconcile their own dissatisfaction with their self-image, forms solid friendships, sexual development (both biological and social) begins to lay its groundwork.....you all get what I mean.

Historically all of that has taken place within our social spheres.....I think for all of us here that sphere was limited to friends and family that we had daily interaction with, outside of the home it was primarily at school among our peers. There was, of course, the competition inherent to those situations, the successes and failures, the "popularity contests", the peer comparisons, all of it. But even for those of us growing up in metro areas, that world was at most a few hundred people. And our home, our family, was generally the safe domain, the place where we found psychological support, encouragement, unconditional acceptance, and hopefully discipline that took place in the light of those positive reinforcements.

Now, youth are on stage with the entire fucking planet. Your self-worth, your image, who you are.....you are being compared (by others and by yourself) to everyone else. Are you the best? Are you the smartest? Are you the hottest? Are you the funniest? All of it. For adults, like us, that wouldn't be easy, but for someone who hasn't even figured out who they are, can you imagine the anxiety that generates? Can you imagine the depression it can provoke? Every time you post, or tweet, or snap, or gram, or whatever the fuck it is, you click "submit" and your brain is silently panicking about whether you will be received with acceptance or rejection.....and you dare not abstain from participating because if you do that then you will almost certainly be ostracized.

So any chance you get to escape from that world, the temptation to take that trip is going to be pretty great, and the mental fortitude required to resist the allure is seriously lacking based on the above.