A belief I feel has developed on the left, at least the segments I see online, is that belief in collective, socialist solutions must therefore mean that any attempt at personal development, self-improvement and improvement of interpersonal relations is vanity and neoliberalism.

...or even more extreme, counterrevolutionary. The idea becomes then that all solutions must then come from things that sound communal or systemic. Even too much introspection is counterrevolution. Which is why I think I once saw a class reductionist call meditation neoliberal

Even discussions about mental health instead of being about which type best provides you self-love and self-awareness and self-esteem and nourishes you spiritually, focus more on making sure insurance gives you optimal access and you can get necessary medications

I think this blind spot of treating introspection and personal and interpersonal improvement s selfish exercises in vanity and neoliberal has several results. One is that all communication has to remain irony poisoned and detached unless discussing systemic issues

For the ones who do discuss personal issues in earnest, they feel obligated to do it in a way that tries to couch them in language of systemic change, radicalism and mutual aid in ways that ends up muddying the waters, disguising the personal issues and rendering it ridiculous...