If you get, say, depressed because of your life being constant shit, how will going to a mental institution help? How does therapy help?

It’s not like therapy is going to solve the problems you face in life, like lack of money, friends, bad job, etc? I guess I’m asking what is the purpose of therapy and mental institutions?

  • leah@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    A good therapist will help you to find reasons to and ways to deal with your problems. A mental institution provides a place for people who are a danger to themselves or others to get mental health treatment.

    • amio@kbin.social
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      11 months ago

      A mental institution provides a place for people who are a danger to themselves or others to get mental health treatment.

      Those are the requirements to get involuntarily committed, they’re not just for extreme cases.