#therapy posting

[everytimewetouch-dot-mp3]

never in my life imagined my therapist might be telling me to go to church as part of my treatment and i might find myself agreeing with her lmfao

(it’s a uu church and the people are so nice,,,, and having an avenue to connect with people who actually care about doing good for the community without coercive religious control underpinning everything is lovely,,,)

[ivy-aphrodite]

Ever have a good therapy appointment and feel emboldened to post your ass online? 🍑

[lotus-queer]

Gu Mang is my ADHD ass when my clients quote me back to me.

[d0ll-part-s]

bed two, surgery thirteen

i.k.b

[clockworkspider]

The other day I was talking to my therapist about how, when I was in middle school, I made the decision to apply parenting advice to my parents, as if they were my teenage children, and be a pillar for them to lean on emotionally.

My therapist was like "that must have been a lot."

And me, having seen too much online discourse about "good parenting", about parentification, felt the need to add the addendum "they didn't ask me to do this, I know their well-being wasn't my responsibility, but I choose to do it. They were immigrants with a lot on their plate. I wanted to help."

And my therapist said, "I'm not here to judge your parents. I understand that you wanted to do it. But still, that's a lot for a middle-schooler to shoulder."

A lot of pop-psychology and online discourse about this makes me furious, but I'm glad my therapist got it. Maybe it's because she's an immigrant herself. I didn't have to deal with the "you poor thing you didn't even get to experience a socially approved healthy childhood. Did you know that's abuse? Did you know your parents were bad people for being immigrants?"

And I was so relieved to hear someone acknowledge my effort. I didn't need someone to tell me "you poor thing you shouldn't have had to do that", but I'm glad I got the acknowledgement of "you've worked hard".

[aaaster-art]

In DBT, patients focus on radical acceptance: acceptance of painful experiences without resistance when circumstances are not under your control, and recognizing what is. But what do you do when you feel you are losing control completely? How do you hold on? 🦇

I am studying DBT worksheets and decided to draw this to work through some of my recent thoughts. Have you tried DBT? What do you think of DBT therapy?

[werewolf-femboy-maid]

me at 14: omg I ship unikitty and gcbc because they both have a nice side and an angry side lmaoooo they're so cute :)))

me about a decade later: *gets diagnosed with borderline personality disorder*

[strawberrieshortcake]

freaking out about how i struggle to make friends and i don’t know why; is it my queerness? my neurodivergence? a secret third thing? (a hidden evil in me that only the worst people i’ve ever met can see and thats why they were so awful to me?)

im sure if i journal extensively about it i will solve it forever :~)