• CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    Counterpoint: “get therapy” is often a shorthand stand-in for “Jesus fuck, do at least a little bit of work on making yourself slightly tolerable, please!” Which can be done through reading stuff online and actually thinking about it, watching videos on YouTube, etc. It doesn’t all actually require therapy, but a therapist is capable of pointing you in the right direction, and reassessing with progress, which makes it faster and easier.

    There is definitely some stuff that requires outside help to really thrive with, or that’s much easier to work through with help, but most of the therapy I’ve ever had was shit I could have found online. It wasn’t even applied in a particularly unique way.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      lol, on lemmy people tell you to get therapy or you must be mentally ill if you don’t agree with them politically.

      apparently if i just went to therapy i’d become a marxist.