The message from the Elmo account, the follow-up and the Sesame Street account linking mental health resources is some of the most wholesome stuff I’ve seen in a while.
It’s easy to get in your feelings, and it would’ve been easy for a social media “win” to play into the doom and gloom or to add to it. Or even to ignore it! But the people responsible for those decisions definitely count as some of Mister Rogers’ helpers. I’m grateful for that.
Mr Rogers could really help this world right now.
“Feelings are mentionable and manageable.”
It isn’t that everyone is special, like superheroes. Everyone is special because we are the only one experiencing the world how we experience it and how we react, in anger or in love can make the world a better or a worse place. He wanted the world to be a better place by letting children love and be safe, and work through the negative feelings in healthy ways.
Mr Rogers testifies in front of Congress for funding is a great video because the man in charge was completely ignorant of what Mr Rogers was doing but in minutes was able to change his mind about how the funding for public television education programs would clearly help children.
A real time peak at what happens many years after selling out the health of your citizens so that insurers can generate money off of misery.
Just wait for the 23AndMe liquidation sale.
They’re financially fucked and your genome is going to get sold out to advertisers and life insurance companies.
Been looking at therapists for my teenage daughter, she’s been debating therapy for a couple of years and has recently fully committed.
We have good insurance and are financially secure, and holy shit it’s still going to cost an extraordinary amount. I don’t understand how anyone struggling with financial insecurity could even consider having access to therapy as an option.
What a fundamentally broken system, there is not a single type of care that exists that is accessible to the people who need it.
As someone who is indeed struggling with financial insecurity, on top of depression, anxiety, and I’m pretty sure adult ADD, it sucks a great deal. My spouse also has similar issues, and so we try to just find the joy in our kids, but I’m worried about passing our issues on to the kids. I truly don’t know what to do at this point.
Check the HR, insurance extras or employee perks whatever page or call the insurance about Behavioral Health programs. Some companies (not enough by far) have some free or lower cost providers in those programs. Not just EAP, which is also a great offering, just usually not long term. Some, it may just be “virtual in-network visits” are discounted over “in person” visits or something simple. A common obe I see is ~5-8 free w/the matched provider then it rolls into the benefit payments if you keep them going.
Its all a very dumb game and I try to pass along any “tricks” I can find to make the system remotely usable. If anyone has any, throw 'em my way!
Think about it this way: the payments you’re making for insurance, that they aren’t reciprocating in terms of service coverage (their only fucking job), is providing a very needy owner with another private island! You’re making the world a happier place as one person can now have multiple islands to lounge on while their corporation does the actual work of syphoning your money for them!
Hashtag SilverLinings!
:P
I came to the comments to see if someone just summarized what the article is about so I can decide whether or not I want to read it.
Since no one else did, here you go:
“Elmo is just checking in! How is everybody doing?” the X page for Elmo posted. A barrage of responses – tens of thousands of them – were brutally honest and downright cynical about the dread people are feeling.
Here is Biden’s (or his account’s) response:
I know how hard it is some days to sweep the clouds away and get to sunnier days.
Our friend Elmo is right: We have to be there for each other, offer our help to a neighbor in need, and above all else, ask for help when we need it.
Even though it’s hard, you’re never alone.
Ask for help? This country is built around avoiding meaningful help for others because of “freedom”. You are free to live in a box under a bridge. Free to lack upward mobility. Free to be jailed because of homelessness, drug addiction or mental health problems. Free to lose your home because of a health problem. Help is “socialism” in this country. Can’t have that. Gotta have those freedoms instead.
In America, you are not free to live under a bridge. People get run off of that situation all the time.
The bridges around here all have no trespassing signs. In English and Spanish despite this being Indiana.
How is the guy (biden) who’s in a position to actually get shit figured out responding like it’s our responsibility to?
Just to be extremely clear, there is no presidential candidate worthy of the position. Trump and Biden can both wheel their crippled old asses to the nearest nursing home.
How is the guy (biden) who’s in a position to actually get shit figured out responding like it’s our responsibility to?
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for the country…
I think that’s one of the worst quotes from a president of a country. The government is for the people, it’s supposed to be doing stuff for the people. It should be our sword and shield against the corporations and fascists, but instead it’s become the shackles of the people.
Christ… Thanks Biden for your version of “thoughts and prayers.”
Just as fucking worthless as the typical Republican response to our suffering.
One thing is a platitudinous phatic expression and the other is legitimate mental health advice.
Like seriously, how do you think “Be there for each other, don’t be afraid to reach out to others, and remember that you’re not alone” is vapid advice?
Because the problems people are having are not purely emotional family stuff that can be hugged out. It’s shit that we need the government to actually act on, not just give us some bullshit feel good reply about sunshine and rainbows.
offer our help to a neighbor in need
spoiler
Damn this senile dumbass really is just the same mouthpiece for Obama when he was vice president.
Words are cheap. I don’t want people to be “nice” to me. I want them to stop burning fossil fuel.
Garfield, the animated orange cat, famously hates Mondays.
Actually top-notch journalism. There’s that one fucker out there who still didn’t know who Garfield was.
The older Garfield is, the more people there are who don’t know much about him even if they know who he is.
That’s me! Didn’t realize they ever animated Garfield. Always thought he existed in panel cartoons only.
Elmo asked how everyone was doing, the replies were so bad president of the United States had to come in.
Who got that on their bingo card?
