Love him

Eeyore being the most relatable character should've told me a lot more about me than it did.

Anyone would act like that if they constantly had a nail in their ass
- Not to mention the Sisyphean hell he was in - building his house every day only for it to be destroyed every night.
- Eeyore has chronic pain?
- Bravo

Reality is the dominant factor in mental illness. Exposure to abuse, lack of care, and poverty: Thats what gets people down and sends others into desperation. Those who are struggling most cant afford diagnoses and they cant afford pills. Assigning blame for the conditions we live under is another can of worms.
As for Eeyore, he just needs to get nailed more 😈 #
- Those who are struggling most cant afford diagnoses and they cant afford pills.
  This is only true in the USA. Importantly, treatment is not a cure.
  
  Importantly, treatment is not a cure.
  A lot of people put too much faith in curing some things that aren't really "fixable".
  I know someone who started having suicidal thoughts as a kid. They admitted themselves to a mental hospital in their teens, got diagnosed, tried some medicine and treatement. And almost three decades later they still have those thoughts regularly.
  
  Oh thank whatever god you enjoy that's only true in the USA.
  
  I am going to guess you are from New Zealand?
  
  I think there are several countries where people can't afford diagnoses or pills that are not the USA.
- I have universal care. I was not diagnosed until my 50's. It's not just poverty, it's not realizing there is an underlying something to your misery/behavior.
- Look into radical psychology, if you haven't.
  
  Critical psychologists believe that mainstream psychology fails to consider how power differences and discrimination between social classes and groups can impact an individual's or a group's mental and physical well-being. Mainstream psychology does this only in part by attempting to explain behavior at the individual level. However, it largely ignores institutional racism, postcolonialism and deficits in social justice for minority groups based on differences in observable characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, religious minority, sexual orientation, or disability.
  TIL
- this sounds radical until you realize that "reality" being a factor in mental health is like saying "air is a factor in breathing."
  although I guess the opposite would be fantasy, that fantasy is a problem in mental health, which... well, it is! but fantasies are also just another part of our reality (and a significant one at that)
  maybe this is challenging the folk wisdom of "my brain is broken, chemical imbalance" and while I'm sure that would spark lovely debates over nature-nurture / mind-body, the boring truth is always this: it's a combination of factors
  as far as those struggling most: i work with that population, and thank IRS for Medicaid, they actually can afford Dx and Rx. the real trouble is their medically recognized mental health disorder (SUD) is literally a fucking crime, and the local govt pays its bill through recidivism fees.

even though he was a depressed, mopey donkey, his friends still accepted him and tried to cheer him up. I like that. We should all be more like winnie and co.

Check out "The Dao of Pooh", it discusses a lot of themes of mental health and recovery through a Daoist lens iirc. or maybe it just talks about daoism and i forgot how to separate that from mental health practices lol

Many people, including me, did take lessons from it. It's not like it's hidden or vague in any way, it very clearly shows and says that sadness, or anything else, can be part of someone no matter their circumstances.

Damn