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I have steadfastly refused to ever do therapy discourse but fine whatever
Let’s talk about the fact that a lot of therapists fucking suck ass
Let’s talk about the fact that a lot of therapists fucking suck ass
“Go to therapy” like that doesn’t mean trying out six different people before you find one that actually helps you, taking tons time and money (probably out of pocket) before you can even START getting useful therapy
I’ve had like seven therapists and exactly one of them was good. He was really good though. Too bad he doesn’t take my current insurance and it would be $200 out of pocket for a session, so ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
I’d always done cognitive behavioral stuff and then found a weird old dude with a bizarre rodentine face who did old school psychodynamic therapy and hypnosis and talked like a heavily sedated philosophy professor and had the most symptom free year of my adult life
All the evidence-based stuff steered me away from that kind of therapist but it was exactly what I needed, because even the most evidence-based practices don’t work for EVERY patient in EVERY situation. Therapy involves trial and error, which means time and money
“Go to therapy” is fucking meaningless lots of people go to therapy and don’t become better people hell sometimes they become worse
Just classic lib brain individualist consumerist nonsense. Becoming a good person is about a lot more than fucking purchasing a service (an expensive, scarce service that should be free and plentiful, at that)
Liberal white women on twitter:
[Does her CBT homework]
“That’s enough activism for today”
[Does her CBT homework]
“That’s enough activism for today”
And I haven’t even gone into how therapists are as a group rife with racism and sexism and transphobia and classism etc, just like any other large group of people. So if you’re marginalized then finding a good therapist is doubly hard
Now you have to find one who’s competent AND not bigoted towards you
Never mind if you have Boderline Personality Disorder or other disorders so stigmatized that many therapists will refuse to treat you outright
Therapy is not a panacea with infinite curative power. It is an expensive and unwieldy tool with finite capabilities to improve quality of life for some people some of the time.
That doesn’t mean it’s useless—in fact it can be and is lifesaving for many—but it’s not magic
That doesn’t mean it’s useless—in fact it can be and is lifesaving for many—but it’s not magic
This is the kind of shit therapists are writing about people with Borderline Personality Disorder TO THIS DAY. This is from a program that sells ongoing education to therapists.
There are people like this *teaching other therapists*. It makes me so mad when people pretend like therapy exists in some ethereal plane separate from all the reactioary bullshit and inequality of our world
Imagine blaming the patient for this shit please fucking d**
