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Sami Schalk
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Say it with me friends: Everyone should be in therapy. Everyone. Including you. Yes, you. You should be in therapy.*

*In an ideal world we all have access to quality, culturally-attuned, affordable mental health services.
Therapy can mean one-on-one psychotherapy or counseling, it can mean support groups, it can mean pharmaceutical assistance... What I’m saying is we all need mental health care. Therapy isn’t just lying on a couch sharing your dreams with a white guy with a notepad.
Again, I’m not saying everyone should get into therapy now even if you don’t have access to quality care. What I’m saying is we all, ALL OF US, need this kind of care & I want to live in a world where anti-racist, anti-sexist, queer & trans friendly, anti-ableist therapy exists.
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The idea that we won’t need mental healthcare when we “fix society” is anti-revolutionary & ableist. You think disabled folks won’t exist in your post-liberation world? You think people will not still experience grief, loss, or heartbreak & need support to get through it? 🙄
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