I now hate pretty much everything I used to enjoy and the only things I still enjoy also make me more angry and frustrated. I blame John Stewart.
I now hate pretty much everything I used to enjoy and the only things I still enjoy also make me more angry and frustrated. I blame John Stewart.
Saw (well, video chatted) my therapist for the first time in a few months. Brought up the political isolation and all that. And she basically told me to stop being so informed and maybe compromise more. Talk about just reinforcing my point.
Listen goldsound, have you tried meeting the fires halfway? Have you tried reasoning with the reactionary cops that want to kill you?
Liberalism is such a fucking diseased mindset. Politics is a zero sum game. Personal relationships are not.
This is why I won't go to therapy even when my friends insist. I've gone before and their solution to everything is to just focus inwards, focus on yourself, you don't owe anyone else anything, you're an island and you can make that island happy. It's liberal bullshit. The only time they talk about your relationship with others is in a kind of transactional way where they want to see what you can get out of others (emotionally, not materially). I think psychotherapy is meant to perpetuate liberal hegemony. I don't want to talk about me me me, I'm not depressed because of brain chemicals, I'm depressed because of the state of the fucking world.
Adam Curtis' Century of the Self, a documentary series on the triumph of individualism - presented as a liberal way to distribute power to everybody, while concretely, and paradoxically, driving mass-consumerism - starts from the work of Sigmund Freud. Watch here .
oh nice, I've had my own suspicions that this was the case
I watched it a couple years ago, and I remember it validating my feelings about therapy at the time. I might watch it again.
That really sucks. "Why don't you just stop thinking?" doesn't seem like a good take for a therapist.
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Part of the problem with that as well, which I tried to explain to her, is that sometimes listening to these podcasts/reading articles/watching videos/etc. that get me angry and informed and depressed also make me feel a bit better because they are the only way I can feel validated sometimes. It's really nice to hear a human voice say "don't worry, you're not completely insane. We see it too." I love my family and friends, but I wish that I had someone outside my SO like that in real life.
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"What Concentration Camps?" I ask, shortly before the bombs begin to fall on my home town of Dresden.
my significant other has experienced this with like a dozen different therapists since 2011. The advice is always to focus on things that make you happy and I shit you not, do coloring book activities to de-stress. ..
Capitalism: where everyone is giant baby
drawing is pretty relaxing to be fair
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My therapist said I could get help the “get out the vote” campaign. I just let it go.
I've found it so difficult to find a therapist for this reason. Especially now that I'm a therapist myself, I can't deal with my colleagues who face the void of insane human suffering and misery every fucking day and then think, "this is fine."
For comrades reading this - there ARE like-minded therapists out there. If you can, I recommend steering away from therapists who focus on individual deficit modalities like CBT or DBT. Try to find someone who is more humanistic, existential, client-centered. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is worth a shot. It may take many attempts to find the right person and I believe it is genuinely helpful once you get there.