i’ve seen posts from people who actually go to therapy saying their therapist basically rehashes the “serenity prayer” when it comes to things like climate change anxiety. gotta find one of those based, not-liberal, not-a-nerd therapists.
serenity prayer
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grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
This will be contentious but I think that is good advice. Quoting Matt Christman:
Your anxiety is not secretly powering some machinery of resistance, you’re just giving yourself a tummy ache.
As socialists the world presents us with a bounty of tools for inflicting psychological self-harm. We can become perversely attached to this practice. If you are taking the rage you feel and channeling it into real-world organizing & action, then great. If you just sit in your apartment staring at the ceiling hoping for some piece of info to be the one that tips you over the edge then well… that isn’t really a good way to live your one life.
my therapist is a pretty cool younger guy. we shit talk capitalism all the time and he laughed when i said voting for joe biden was voting for 99% hitler. they’re out there but i get they’re not common.
but yeah, focusing on things you can actually affect helps. kinda.
There’s more leftist therapists out there than you might think. The field inherently butts up against the injustice of capitalism if the therapist is worth their salt.
Well nothing is free, my therapist was paid for by taxes. And they made very little money, but they were excellent. Not all therapists are just trying to fleece people if that’s what you are implying.
Is your point that therapists don’t work for free? Because like…… yeah. I don’t think anyone here is under the impression that their therapist is helping them just for the hell of it.
I was pretty blessed, I had one of those based therapists. I had no idea how lucky I was til hearing people’s experiences with bad therapists. I would complain about how overwhelmed I felt by political stuff, racism, capitalism etc (in 2020) and she would say I was correct to feel that way and just gave me tools to help deal with it when the feeling was too much. I would talk about wanting to protest or take bigger actions and she would encourage me, suggesting even joining a politically active org or starting my own.
i’ve seen posts from people who actually go to therapy saying their therapist basically rehashes the “serenity prayer” when it comes to things like climate change anxiety. gotta find one of those based, not-liberal, not-a-nerd therapists.
serenity prayer
spoiler
grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference
This will be contentious but I think that is good advice. Quoting Matt Christman:
As socialists the world presents us with a bounty of tools for inflicting psychological self-harm. We can become perversely attached to this practice. If you are taking the rage you feel and channeling it into real-world organizing & action, then great. If you just sit in your apartment staring at the ceiling hoping for some piece of info to be the one that tips you over the edge then well… that isn’t really a good way to live your one life.
my therapist is a pretty cool younger guy. we shit talk capitalism all the time and he laughed when i said voting for joe biden was voting for 99% hitler. they’re out there but i get they’re not common.
but yeah, focusing on things you can actually affect helps. kinda.
There’s more leftist therapists out there than you might think. The field inherently butts up against the injustice of capitalism if the therapist is worth their salt.
how does one even find a good therapist. I went to one when i was a teen because my mom’s friend recommended him, but i think he’s retired now
i just got lucky
How much does he make off of you ?
idk it’s free thru my insurance, very cynical take imo
It maybe cynical, but you are bright enough to know it’s not free.
Well nothing is free, my therapist was paid for by taxes. And they made very little money, but they were excellent. Not all therapists are just trying to fleece people if that’s what you are implying.
Is your point that therapists don’t work for free? Because like…… yeah. I don’t think anyone here is under the impression that their therapist is helping them just for the hell of it.
Condescending too? Who could’ve seen that coming.
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I got lucky to find a socialist therapist who now uses the phrase doomerism when I get in that mood
I was pretty blessed, I had one of those based therapists. I had no idea how lucky I was til hearing people’s experiences with bad therapists. I would complain about how overwhelmed I felt by political stuff, racism, capitalism etc (in 2020) and she would say I was correct to feel that way and just gave me tools to help deal with it when the feeling was too much. I would talk about wanting to protest or take bigger actions and she would encourage me, suggesting even joining a politically active org or starting my own.
Yeah I got that one all the time from a therapist; had a great one before that, but they retired. But, yeah, it’s seriously bullshit.