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I think there is a real place for therapy, but also I think it serves to try to defuse revolutionary feelings. There are real things I'm fired up about, and I think I should be upset and passionate about them. But my therapist seems to want to make these fires into embers. Like, sorry ma'am, but I switched off one of my medications because I couldn't feel as deeply while I was on it; I'm not about to let you numb me now. I'm switching to a different therapist now, hoping that's better.
I got my therapist to say "Death to America". I figure as long as therapy is covered by my insurance I can afford to spend some of the time doing communist soapboxing to a captive audience.
I remember telling one of my therapists how it was a big issue to me that I care about animal welfare and want to be vegan but struggle with that as my cancer treatment has caused so many food intolerances there are very few things I can eat without getting sick now. She just totally dismissed both my food intolerances (diagnosed by the endocrinologist, it's not like I'm making it up) and my guilt at not being vegan. She told me to just eat whatever I like and not worry about it. So helpful! Absolutely useless, the lot of them.
Oof yeah. I get that feeling, though I'm not exactly sick and unable to eat vegan. There are barriers, but I could probably knock 'em down with some assertiveness. But yeah, that's not cool that they acted like that. It'd be helpful if people in the business of helping people believed them about the help they need and actually helped them.
I've been trying to wrap my head around what she could possibly have heard you say that would make this sentence make sense to her. None of what you said makes her make sense
Whenever I have therapy I will not mention many of my revolutionary feelings because of this. I find it way more useful to talk about those feelings with fellow leftists.
I agree, there is a lot of stuff that therapists want you to calm down about that you really shouldn't. I hope you find one that is possibly even a fellow leftist