u/Thoughtarella

Therapy is not supposed to medicate you into accepting injustice. While counselling is important, I feel it only addresses the surface when it comes to problems like these. A therapist can listen to you and try to support you mentally, but what about your actual situation? How are they going to fix the damage caused by a shitty government?

I hope people start taking this seriously now. Please like this system isn't working for our society. It's taking a toll on all of us, especially marginalized communities. My point is own your mess. At the end of the day, the people who caused this mess need to take responsibility. Come onnnn like how long are we supposed to just take it. I'm fking tired of this shit. It breaks my heart. I hate irresponsible adults who ruin our future. Counselling can help people survive the emotional fallout for sure... the anxiety, despair, or trauma while they fight for justice. But for how long? I'm just really frustrated that many posts aren't addressing the root cause. Therapy and counselling can't fix structural problems like a corrupted exam system, government failure or institutional injustice. If someone's life is derailed by a leaked paper, financial stress or denied opportunities.... no amount of mental reframing will change the material reality.

Maybe they'll help us cope but also i feel like telling someone to cope with an unfair system can be dismissive when what they actually need is accountability and reform.

Just to be clear I'm not (literally neverrr) telling anyone to avoid counseling or therapy. Pleaseeee go to therapy but my issue here is that therapy is being treated as the answer to this BS and I think that's misplaced responsibility. Some wounds can't be healed by a therapist because they weren't caused by your mind they were caused by a broken system. What we need is accountability from the government, not just coping strategies for the people they failed.

Oh how i hateee watching the same problems happen over and over while the people affected are expected to be endlessly patient, endlessly resilient, endlessly understanding.

I think our Indian society exhibits a troubling empathy imbalance. We often dedicate more energy to fearing hypothetical harms that might befall men than to confronting the pervasive, real world violence endured by women. This is reinforced by a patriarchal narrative duality in our storytelling. Men are granted profound complexity – their flaws, their anger, and their inner turmoil are depicted as facets of a rich, relatable human experience. We are shown the 'why' behind the toxicity, inviting understanding, even redemption. Women, in contrast are routinely confined to idealized archetypes: the nurturer, the saint, the moral compass. Their emotional range is narrowly defined. When they step outside these confines, they are not met with the same narrative empathy... they are simply labeled and dismissed. This extends to our emotional vocabulary. Male suffering is romanticized as stoic strength. The 'strong, silent type.' When a man finally cries, it is treated as a rare, deeply significant event. Women emotional expression, however is rendered ordinary, dismissed as weakness or hysteria and stripped of its gravity. The result is a deep seated conditioning – we are taught to empathize with the male experience as the default human experience. A toxic man is still a man, his behavior contextualized and often excused. A toxic woman ceases to be just a woman....she becomes a "bch" a "whe". This conditioned empathy gap is the lens through which we distort real social issues, prioritizing abstract male fears over tangible female suffering.

"Women look for so much in men: Tall, rich, kind, funny, smart, communication skills, chivalrous, independent from his parents and what not while men just want a beautiful and loyal wife"

THISSS!!!

Therapy isn't meant to make you okay with things that shouldn't be okay

Have you seen how female celebrities get bullied for breathing slightly wrong 🤡?

"Bring back bullying" Absolutely nott!!

'Breaking Dishes' by Rihanna is not about praising a man!!

Why do our indian society obsess over false accusations which are statistically rare while barely acknowledging the massive scale of unreported grape and dowry?