If an unreliable login, a bad storefront, tedious store pages, and a less than user-friendly library aren't enough to call a launcher worse than the competition, what even would qualify them as a bad product?
I mean sure, my PC doesn't crash nor goes up in flames when I open Epic, but that's about it.
You start the launcher -> it forgot your device and password, so wait for the confirmation code via mail, enter your info again, then solve three capchas
Browse the store -> except there's no functioning tag search and the shop sucks, so you need to know exactly what to buy and how it's called to even find it
Chose a game -> but there's no tabs or secondary windows, so every time you inspect a shop page and try to get back your search gets reset; please enter all your search criteria again and scroll back to the point you've been before
Start the game -> but your own library is a hot mess; click through 13 pages of huge icons representing an alphabetical order until you find the picture representing what you want to play
And then you play.
As long as you don't notice Epic all is smooth sailing. Every step of actually using the launcher is a pain though. Sometimes I forget how annoying it all is and try again. Aaaaaand it forgot my device and password again. Then I curse at my PC and open steam.
Psychologically that would be a desaster. People would wear themselves out in an instant, and in 6 months top we'd have a world population suffering from clinical depression.
Waking up and starting the day in darkness is even more detrimental to mental health than spending the evening in the dark, because light stimulation in the morning is what actually aligns our inner clock. DST all year round would shift our circadian rhythm and social time further apart, worsening sleeping problems and affective disorders.
But don't take my word for it - there are many smarter people than me who actually researched this. For example:
DST in the winter would suck so much. Think of all the worsened seasonal depressive disorders (aka winter depression). If the alternative would mean an increase in suicide numbers I will gladly endure the annoyance of changing my clocks twice a year.
Then again if we could abolish DST - yeah I'd be down for that. But too many people think getting rid of standard time will make our winters more like our summers. But it won't. It will make them worse. Our biology isn't meant to wake up three hours before sunrise.
But how do we get those regulations if not, in last consequence, by individual action? Personal responsibility specifically includes the need to vote and get socially and politically involved. We can't just sit around and tell people to wait if and when the right regulations come along. We together are the people who have to fight for them.
You cannot overthrow capitalism without social rethinking. I mean, you could force people at gunpoint if that sounds like a good plan to you, only then we'd have a capitalisic people that has been told to have every right to overconsume (by people like you, in this thread) for decades.
When you absolve people of their individual responsibility the only way out of capitalism will be by force. Not against corporations, but against the people.
And what would it take to stop those corporations? Individual actions. Be it voting in an election or with your wallet, it's our society that continues to not only allows those corporations to exist but to grant them every right to do so. The only alternative to a social rethinking would be the violent overthrow of capitalism and an authoritan installation of some alternative. And nobody could seriously want that.
"Meaningful", as in, "even if I alone do it this will somehow stop climate change"? Not possible, very obviously.
Meaningful as in "if everyone would adapt that mindset we'd be half way to the solution" - there are many, many options. Vegan diet, fuck cars, use public transport, buy local, vote green (or the closest approximation available), support sustainable companies, less consumerism in general, change your electricity provider, get politically involved, social activism, convince your friends and family...
Pick and chose as many as you want and can and you start becoming part of the solution.
You could totally work with your inner child on that basis. Obviously don't have to. But just imagining this little version of you and the hardship they had to endure, thinking about what they would have needed from an adult, and imagining yourself being that adult for your imaginative younger self - that would be very much in line with the idea of the technique.
This may depend on the country but I as a therapist ask everyone anyway. And I've experienced many, many people over the years being afraid of speaking up. It's always a moment of relief when it's out there and they realize I'm not freaking out over it.
I've pretty much heard it all. Including the various ways people try to approach the subject while still unsure how I will react. And I do think that is something you could try if you're unsure about your therapist - talk to them about your suicidal thoughts and see how they react before you confirm plans or attempts.
Chances are of course they can get quite a bit from your way of talking about it, because you're definitely not the first person with those thoughts in front of them. The thing is - suicidal ideation is, depending on the type of disorder, quite common. If we'd admitted anyone who thought about suicide to a psych ward immediately they would be bursting at the seams and we'd get nothing done at all. So that's not happening. As long as you can convincingly agree with your therapist on a plan forward (which could mean: Okay, I promise not to kill myself until next Tuesday) you don't have to be admitted if you don't want to. Which also would be an option of course. Psychiatric wards are emergency departments. They are supposed to be there for you when you're seeing no light at all and in my experience, at least where I live and work, in fact have saved quite a few lifes.
There are cases where psychiatric admission is the right call though. Sometimes it's literally life saving. Depression isn't static - it goes up and down, goes loud, goes silent. When you're deep in a life crisis, when you're feeling like you're losing your fucking mind and are actually about to kill yourself those are the places to go to get you over those critical days or weeks to recalibrate and reconsider. I've personally spoken to many patients who were completely releived afterwards and glad that there was such a place for them. If the alternative is a lost life, psychiatry is a valid attempt to get better, even if it doesn't work for everyone.
Of course it's an even better route to get there by admitting oneself - I just believe the likelihood of that happening depends a lot on how afraid people are of psychiatric clinics. And they do vary of course. I personally still would go though. Before I end my life I guess there wouldn't be anything to lose anyway.
I do think that is true. I've worked in a clinic through the whole pandemic, which meant mandatory tests everyday. Cought two asymptomatic infections this way. With the first one I had a very light headache - I would have thought absolutely nothing of it if it weren't for the test. Second time I've got no symptoms whatsoever. I then got it again for round three and that one suuucked.
When remembering a stressful experience it's important not to get stuck in your thoughts.
Most people would be a bit shocked after what you've been through. Our brains tend to try to go over things a few times to get a grasp at what happened. Sometimes our thoughts become a movie of the stressful incident that plays on repeat in our thoughts. Try to think further. Remember how you got out of the situation, remember how you got home, remember how you had dinner, remember how you got to bed. And remember: You're okay, you're alright, this is all behind you, you did alright, and right now you're safe and fine.
Try to explicitly think this a few times. At the very least, this is a much more pleasant thought to get stuck on than "fuck, I'm in danger".
And if it helps: Either distract yourself or tell someone what happened. Both are okay. Just don't stop at the scary part when telling the tale, always think and tell about it to the point where you were safe again.