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I'm a big fan of therapy (it was definitely useful for me) but there is something even more insidious about how discourse has shifted towards promoting therapy
by UncleMeat 4y ago
I'm a big fan of therapy (it was definitely useful for me) but there is something even more insidious about how discourse has shifted towards promoting therapy for almost everything: therapy does not actually fix most causes of suffering. Tools like CBT give people the ability to endure suffering and even thrive in it but they do not eliminate suffering.
It almost feels like a trick. One more way in which people are trained to assume that suffering because they've got a shitty job with a boss that hates them working for a faceless corporation and anonymous customers is just a property of the universe like gravity. I don't think that therapists are doing something wrong or that going to therapy is bad but there is something sick about how human suffering just becomes one more market where megacorps can extract wealth from the masses.