Watch Nimona

[ysabetwordsmith]

Temporarily available on YouTube for the award season: the full movie Nimona.  Do not watch with mouth full.  Also, may do permanent damage to narrow minds.  3q3q3q!!! :D

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Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

I agree. They touched on the challenges of knowing someone in a relationship. They did a good job with depression and suicidal ideation. And they didn't make a big fuss about those things and "you need therapy" -- they basically treated all the mental problems by connecting with other people. Which actually has a high rate of success.

Re: Yes ...

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>>And they didn't make a big fuss about those things and "you need therapy" -- they basically treated all the mental problems by connecting with other people. Which actually has a high rate of success.<<

Healthy relationships and social or emotional skills are basically mental health first aid. It works to prevent or solve minor scrapes, and helps to begin healing slightly bigger ones.

And even if someone has the psychological equivalent of sucking chest wounds, a bonded person (or occasionally, a passing social-emotional genius) has a good chance of calming the person down at least enough to work on a more healthy & long term solution than 'Loudly emote distress at the environment.'

That said, therapy or a reasonable facsimile may be necessary for:

a) complicated issues that surpass the problem-solving skills of most laypeople

b) issues where the usual problem-solver in enmeshed in the problem, or cannot perceive the problem

c) getting other people (usually more privileged ones) to shut up and listen

Also, Re: the movie seeing how the characters untangle the social dynamics after the end of the movie would be interesting. Namely, they have one person with positive bonds to two other people...and the two other people have serious issues with each other.