Scapegoat Community

Let's talk about how "mental health" has been weaponized by people in society to avoid accountability for their actions and actually hinders them from growing as individuals.

Mental health is real. But it's also become a convenient excuse for bad behavior. Psychologist Nicholas Balaisis points out that citing mental health can sometimes be an avoidant strategy or a way of bypassing the issue at hand rather than confronting it. Using mental health as a scapegoat for poor... (edited) read more

Definately a scapegoater

Scapegoaters are what we are calling them now (narcissists, Karen's, supremicists, dictators, authoritarians, kkk, nationalists, autocrats, far right wingers) Because to them anything good is alleged to be evil, they blame the good for the evil be it a person, a group or constitutional law and... (edited) read more

Washington State's Mental Healthcare Disaster

Lately I’ve been noticing something in the mental-health job market here in Western Washington, and I wanted to make sure I wasn’t imagining it. After digging deeper, it turns out the trend is real. Wages in behavioral health aren’t just stagnant, they’re actually falling behind inflation and the... read more

Book Review: Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

I gave this book 3.75 stars James Baldwin said “anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.” Poverty, by America breaks down what poverty is, what it means to be impoverished in America, and some suggestions on how we as Americans could tackle a problem... (edited) read more

How do you let go if the same pattern persists.

I used to always act as the hero, the main perpetrator of my abuse used to always place me in the scapegoat role. Cannot find something, Sophia stole it and gave it to someone, now to find out to whom she gave that item. We are not going to care that she's in a fetal position and in a clearly... read more

Trans people are people

Trans people are not disposable. Trans people are human and absolutely not deserving of becoming a scapegoat for people’s political, social, and economic grievances. Sending so much love to the trans community