Side note: Psychiatry is shit at dealing with material conditions.
Once in group therapy someone told about being depressed due to being in debt and on welfare and consequently having very limited options in everyday life. My psychiatrist is an adorable old lady, she could be someone's favourite aunt, and she is usually pretty good at understanding stuff and giving good explanations. But this she simply couldn't fathom. She couldn't move beyond naive bourgeois moralisation, "but you don't have a job", "but you accepted to pay it back", "but you have to take responsibility".
i tried to get therapy like 3 weeks ago, she was this very firm israeli lady who would say im making excuses when i told her i was overwhelmed at work and basically gave me a training in how to organize my time and structure my work day. bitch i came to talk about my anxiety and stress not get a work training 😭 i quit after my second session when she cut me off early twice
she also ranted about how my worries aren’t warranted because i’m young and talked about how she didn’t get her degree for nursing until 29 and when she moved here she had to start over and stuff and talked about her work im social work and horrid. sometimes mental health practitioners are outa touch
Most therapists have been like this with me. They've always tied my personal functionality to how well I'm performing at work. Their goal always seemed to normalize my behavior enough that I'm not a nuisance to my boss.
Side note: Psychiatry is shit at dealing with material conditions.
Once in group therapy someone told about being depressed due to being in debt and on welfare and consequently having very limited options in everyday life. My psychiatrist is an adorable old lady, she could be someone's favourite aunt, and she is usually pretty good at understanding stuff and giving good explanations. But this she simply couldn't fathom. She couldn't move beyond naive bourgeois moralisation, "but you don't have a job", "but you accepted to pay it back", "but you have to take responsibility".
i tried to get therapy like 3 weeks ago, she was this very firm israeli lady who would say im making excuses when i told her i was overwhelmed at work and basically gave me a training in how to organize my time and structure my work day. bitch i came to talk about my anxiety and stress not get a work training 😭 i quit after my second session when she cut me off early twice
she also ranted about how my worries aren’t warranted because i’m young and talked about how she didn’t get her degree for nursing until 29 and when she moved here she had to start over and stuff and talked about her work im social work and horrid. sometimes mental health practitioners are outa touch
Most therapists have been like this with me. They've always tied my personal functionality to how well I'm performing at work. Their goal always seemed to normalize my behavior enough that I'm not a nuisance to my boss.
Their job is to trick people into being happy with shitty jobs