Has it helped you? Have you found most therapists to be understanding of your material and social conditions? Did it take you a while to find a good therapist?
Yes but it was a long road. At first I started with psychiatrist who prescribed me SSRIs, but they didn't last long and the whithdrawal was awful. Couple years later after long and painful hospitalisation due to Crohn's disease I went to therapy. Actually thanks to Zizek I went to lacanian psychoanalyst, it was great, but not easy.
how tf did you find a Lacanian psychoanalyst and how did you know that you would be best served by one?
I just googled it, and even in my shitty easter european country I could find one. Before I went to therapy I've read extensively about it and watched every lecture and every documentary made by Zizek. And I liked it, I felt it was something for me. And I was right. Lacanian psychoanalyst is different than your average therapist
even in my shitty easter european country
Haha yeah I should totally be able to find one here :yea:
I had a Lacanian therapist for a few months and she was actually very helpful and helped me realize a lot about myself. What was most interesting about her was that she barely said a word during our sessions, and when we were doing face-to-face over Zoom she also wore a blank expression for our entire time together. It was kind of weird but I found out a lot of interesting shit. It might have actually worked a little too well. After a few months I was in such a good mood I felt like I didn't need therapy anymore and also didn't have much to talk about? I ended up dropping her but within a few months I was back to the same behavior that had my family insisting that I get a therapist in the first place—arguing too much with my lib parents about politics. So now I'm with a DemSoc therapist who's pretty cool and nice, but he doesn't wear the stone face and he also expresses his opinion when he feels like it. I have to wonder what other weird shit we would have found out if I had stuck with the Lacanian.
I also want to recommend the It's Not Just In Your Head podcast . It's not perfect, sometimes Harriet (Big Dick Wolff's spouse) libs out, but she has tons of interesting stories about her hypnotherapy patients.
Yes but it took some sifting through Psychology Today, making awkward phone calls to try to vibe people out, having some phone calls go unreturned, etc. But yes I would be much more of a mess without it.
I espouse Maoist ideology to my therapist on a biweekly basis and they are just like 'ok so how does that make you feel to think that way about your landlord and how can we ground this in real, day-to-day actions instead of going so far down the rabbit hole that you just feel despair that your landlord's head is not on a pike' and i'm like damn bro good questions let's get some praxis going
wish i could vibe read but my dang autism either lets me trust everyone or noone.
:/ that's a bit tougher but I think if you lead with that you'll be ok. Literally just ask "what is your style? what is your vibe?" and see what they say
No, it didn't help. Anxiety meds didn't help, neither did anything else they gave me for PTSD (mood stabilizers). Only thing that helped was stuff that put me asleep and made me stop torturing myself in my dreams. Oh and a bf that gives me backrubs when I'm stressed, that helps.
I went to four therapists and 3/4 of them were transphobic (one said that I should consider a transphobic cousin's needs and detransition lmfao, I was 5 years hrt at that point). Psychiatrists had a much better track record for me.
Psychiatrists had a much better track record for me.
that’s really odd. You’d think it would be the other way around.
Psychiatrists are better educated and it's a medical degree so that's probably ot
oh wait was this in amerikkka? I can definitely see it being the case in europe
I've been doing therapy regularly for the last year and it has definitely been a big help, though I will say I got very lucky and found a good therapist very quickly. I used Psychology Today's find a therapist to search but I'm pretty sure that's only for Canada.
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