I simultaneously hate and appreciate psychology. There is potential for it to be incredibly useful but it’s bogged down by absolute dogshit social constructs like vid related. Obviously, people can start anticipating scarcity and develop a “mindset” centered around it, but these dumbasses never address the elephant in the room which is that capitalism creates scarcity and having a mindset that anticipates it is a rational response when you’ve been conditioned like Pavlov’s dog.
In this way, psychology greases the wheels of capitalism by stigmatizing survival mechanisms that are triggered from the environments people live in. Instead of working towards an environment that doesn’t evoke these responses, people are instead asked to work on themselves. The individual is scapegoated and the economic system is passed over. I think modalities like liberation psychology present themselves as one solution to this problem but I’m not sure it goes far enough. Too much of it still carries the baggage of “social justice” that makes it difficult to move past. I would like to know if people here have suggestions on how it could be advanced within a far left framework.
I'm not sure if it's quite what you're looking for, but I've been doing Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and it's helped me a lot.
The general takeaway has been that, while I'm not wrong for being concerned about the world around me, I need to be rational about it. I need to take inventory of things in an objective way, and loop everything back to something actionable. For example, I have a habit of doomscrolling. We discussed that, while I'm absolutely in the right for wanting to stay informed and in-touch, this isn't actually helping me. Social media is a whole lot of noise, and even when you have numbers, it's pretty much impossible to eek out what they actually mean. I was told to, instead, to begin preparing myself for potential problems generally, and to focus more on my own activism, accepting that the world is a chaotic place and being proactive rather than reactive.