(September 9, 2023 at 10:33 pm)Belacqua Wrote: So it's not irresponsible to talk about what we can do to make life easier for lonely people. I would want to live in a culture that offered help to those who were suffering. Doing something with your life is easier if college is affordable, rewarding jobs are available, all that basic stuff.
I agree that when it comes to mental health problems, it's important for society to continue to raise awareness regarding these problems and promote means to facilitate potential solutions or treatments for these problems, like making psychotherapy/counselling options more affordable for those who are in most need of it (for example).
But at the end of the day, real change needs to come from within. You can implement all sorts of solutions for people to make use of, but if these solutions require effort on the part of the targeted beneficiary (especially if it involves such difficult things as deep and honest self-reflection, acknowledging one's pattern of thinking and addressing that, and being motivated to improve oneself), then this is something they (the individual) need to do something about (as challenging as that may be unfortunately). Society cannot do that task for them.
