This is why I knew I found the right therapist when she asked what I've been stressed about and I said "the current state of politics" and she just said "oh yeah, fair" and we started working on how to manage it while understanding that the root cause is still truly as bad as it is.

Therapy can be used for a lot of other things, though, and I find this take can scare a lot of people away from it.

They’re only human so you gotta find someone who’s good and works well for you but they’re great for relationships or trauma or just venting. Mine’s awesome and doesn’t try to tell me that actually working is so great or that my ADHD is problem.

There are so many people who really need it that don’t go because “it doesn’t work anyway”.

It’s kind of like saying that the individual who isn’t responding well to the abysmal conditions created by capitalism is “broken” and not the system itself. So most of the time you are gonna get a “best I can do is give you some pills that dull all your emotions, good and bad”.

It's me ✨😎🥰

When I constantly stated the same reasons for attending mental healthcare when I got there, after a shake up in the ownership of the network, I was terminated coverage by my place because no one there got it into their head:

Major sources of depression and anxiety aren't fixable with therapy and pills, they are only fixed with a major change in income and political climate. Even if I somehow have a job that pays 8 figures, it doesn't solve the social issues of me and my friends being future victims with no way to stop it.

And then they just went "Well since you're too focused on what you can't change, you can't change at all, buh-bye!"

At some point I just gotta wonder who's actually mentally ill. The people who see the truth and try to change it despite the lack of influence, or the people who ignore it and say everything is okay.

I mean, when I expressed to my last therapist of the network "Hey this place in town, violated the state labor laws and I'm trying to figure out if I can sue them." she just said "But I like the gas in my tank."

from what i experienced in the last 15 years of psychotherapy: a good therapist wants you "functional" in the sense that you can live your life without major self-induced hiccups and with as much self-determination as possible, and not "functional" as a machine. But it seems that even this aspect of healthcare gets corrupted by for-profit healthcare - the people going there are probably expecting to just get fixed like a car (which means you will land back at you therapist or psychiatrist sooner rather than later), and the medical institutions have an incentive in not really fixing your issues.

it's more like, a lot of psychotherapy is individualistic and focused on getting people functional again, so they can do what is important and meaningful to them.

that might be in alignment with capitalism or social norms, or it might not be.

Be careful, "people who disagree with me are non-humans" is a dangerous path to start down...