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Are you referring to 'trauma-dumping' or when people share their negative experiences en masse? When I think therapy speak I think people being supportive, I'm probably misunderstanding, an example would help!
I mean, the cliché phrases like "GO NC ASAP", "LEAVE THEM", "THATS ABUSIVE" "DIVORCE NOW", "BOUNDARIES", and others.
I mean, yeah, there is some helpful and maybe live saving advice, but im started to get annoyed by everyone on Reddit thinking they are psychologists.
And thats another one, they always say "GO TO A THERAPIST" and never ever mention a psychologist, like, they exist you know? And therapy doesn't work for some people.
I dont know. Im starting to think I rather hear someone who went to school and has a medical license to tell me about psychology things. Maybe.
That's really just a semantic thing. Psychologists are therapists. Just specifically trained.
As for the other things many people do abusive things but aren't necessarily abusers. Most people will occasionally lose their temper and shout, which is 100% an abusive behaviour, but doesn't make them an abuser. So it can easily get misinterpreted based on limited information.
And tbh often going no contact is the easiest thing to do to escape an abusive situation.
Nah, there are psychologists who measure axon potentials in rats and stuff like that. Therapy is an area in clinical psychology, which is a subfield of psychology, but you can get a psychology degree without ever going near that subfield. You get to be Dr. Rat Maze or whatever. But who knows, you might end up training the next Algernon who then takes over the world.
Source: had a grad student housemate doing that type of research. He said when people heard he was studying psychology, they thought he was getting trained to be a marriage counselor. Nope, nothing of the sort.