I think about this a lot, really. I feel like our basic model of therapy is entirely wrong, and treating it as a thing that individuals can do to fix themselves both ignores most of its benefits and limits the ability of the individual to actually change.https://twitter.com/GeniesLoki/status/1300736048432140291 …
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i mean this is not an either/or thing but very much a both/and thing individual therapy helped me A LOT but also i had/have incredible, mutually healing friendships
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Yeah I'm not against individual therapy (though I think it fails much more often than it succeeds), I just think it's too dominant as a default mode.
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i'd think of therapy as a place where you can bootstrap one (1) normal, empathetic, supportive relationship, which enables you to build the skills to get things like friends (ie. people you have normal, empathetic, supportive relationships with, not just people you hang out with)
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i'm not sure how much one would need therapy if one had, for example, functioning parents
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…there are some *hefty* requirements to that though
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Well, yeah, but there are some hefty individual therapy requirements too.https://twitter.com/GeniesLoki/status/1300736426548645888 …
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My only hesitation here is that I don’t handle other people’s trauma well. I did a group therapy/bible study thing once for women healing from sexual trauma years ago and I still have nightmares from the stories I heard in the one session I attended
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Yeah I think group therapy where you're unpacking major trauma in front of each other is hard mode - I was thinking more for things centred on the specific ways people relate to each other within the group.
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Oh gods I'm not sure I want to agree with anything called Peak Living Network
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on whether therapy helps at the individual level at all - I think it's much more useful to have a whole bunch of therapy skills in the water in a community than therapy is for individuals themselves.