• DreamButt@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Sometimes I like to wonder what the world would be like if therapy was a human right

    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 hours ago

      Therapy is healthcare, and I don’t see why healthcare shouldn’t be considered a human right

      By our current understand, it already ought to be

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      7 hours ago

      Therapy attendance rates have been in steep rise since 2000. So everyone’s mental health is obviously improving at the same rate.

      Sarcasm aside, I think therapy should be as ubiquitous as open heart surgeries. Sure, go there if you need it, but perhaps not that many people need it and perhaps it should be last resort thing instead of an everyday solution.

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      19 hours ago

      Given the history on human rights, there’d be campaigns pointing out that people aren’t getting therapy.

      Otherwise, not much different