the idea that “therapy” and “healing”are synonymous for everyone across identity and experience is a kind of ableism that the left should really interrogate

some of our first encounters with therapy were court appointed and part of a larger pattern of state violence. lots of therapists are racist af. some of us are literally too mentally ill to immediately benefit from certain forms of therapy *a fact therapists say themselves*

i say this as someone with complex PTSD who has been in ineffective CBT for nearly 11 years not getting better because DBT cost like $200 per session out of pocket and has to be done at least once a week to start.