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therapy stuff, possibly a harmful take idk
The more i learn about the history of psychiatry as a field, particularly how it relates to queer people, the more skeptical I become of the whole thing as any sort of helpful tool, especially with how “you need therapy” has become one of the default answers to anyone struggling.
I didn’t have bad experiences with therapy, it was just sorta underwhelming for me, helpful in some minor ways, but it’s kinda hard to trust the field at all when it carries so much homophobic, racist, mysogynist and anti-trans baggage.
The field as a whole really sucks but there can still be good therapists that stand out from the garbage.
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There’s just a lot of inconsistency on how helpful therapists are… if you find one you click with it can be really amazing but it can be so hard to do that. and it feels like there’s so few available even before you narrow stuff down. I had difficulty finding my last therapist because I refuse to have a therapist who’s a man, and then shit happened with her where moving forward I refuse seeing a therapist who’s cis… makes finding a good one just A Lot.