Thread by @yumcoconutmilk

I’m actually glad a bunch of therapists are exposing themselves as mean people motivated by bias who don’t necessarily see themselves as clinicians bc I’ve long said we need to stop assuming going to therapy is proof of morality or goodness. Assholes being treated by assholes

ain’t no way y’all are improving as humans if you’re being treated by people who won’t treat “the elderly” or who think dealing with complex trauma is too much. How will that person advise you to deal with the elderly people in your life? The traumatized?

And you want to say it’s merely a decision of what you’re trained in after the fact but y’all don’t say “I’m not trained in couples/elderly/complex trauma survivors” y’all laugh and cackle and show your teef about it first and THEN want to talk about some training

How can a therapist teach you to be a better human being when they’ve made their own bias into praxis and justified it by saying it’s ethics? Again, not all therapists are like this! But a great deal of us are going to bad therapists to learn about to be good people…

And the math ain’t mathing bc how exactly does that work? So we need to get out of the mindset of assuming people are good bc of therapy and assuming that therapy fixes all