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i am a poor person whose life has been saved by therapy. please don’t use this to promote the idea that going to therapy could ever be compared, in any meaningful way, to “resisting” or fighting “fascism.” things are actually sometimes kind of complicated, but also not really.
AND! ffs take a critical perspective on the institution of mental health, b responsive to some sense of its history, reflect on how it has always and still does support the state power; it is a sanctioned institution which is insidiously culturally hegemonic. It hurts poor ppl!
if therapy is a good option for you, of course you should take it, but if we want to say anything serious about therapy, we need to understand how rare these circumstances are, especially for poor people and other marginalized people AND not compare it to fighting fascism
it’s also useful to say that before therapy saved my life, it was part of my oppression: from high school conselors trying to get me to pee in a cup to juvenile court ordered professional therapists who my mother risked eviction to pay for (at the threat of me being sent to jd)
and before therapy saved me, reading marx and punk rock saved me. oh yeah, and after therapy saved me, it threw me away because i could no longer afford it. kind of wild.
