#toxic therapy

[lexer-says-stuff]

Thinking of making a series where I educate toxic people on the internet. I call it Toxic Therapy. Basically I just explain toxic things commonly found on the internet, and I say how they're toxic.

[toxicfoundations]

[warsawmouse]

It's okay to refuse therapy. It's okay to be hostile towards medical personnel, especially when they have abused you. It's okay to talk about your horrible experiences with therapy.

Sometimes, refusing therapy is the greatest act of self care you could ever do. Sometimes, going to therapy is self destructive. While we try to remove the negative stigma behind therapy, we fail to mention narratives where therapy can be toxic. Why? Well, it’s linked to a complicated worship of the medical industrial complex. Health professionals are supposed to be inherently good, but this experience is more frequently true for non-marginalized people.

Here’s the deal: the medical industrial complex is racist, ableist, queerphobic, transphobic, intersexist, misogynistic, and classist. If you are a marginalized person, you have every right to hate health professionals and distrust them. You have every justification to avoid them.