Re: “X is not a replacement for therapy”. I won’t argue that there’s any one thing that’s a replacement for therapy, but I will say it’s *possible* to
1. be a person who “needs therapy”
2. become a person who gets DMs saying “this conversation helped me more than my therapist”
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“Go to therapy” has become a sort of shorthand - and I’ve used it myself too as a sort of placeholder (typically like, “go to therapy if you need to”). But even therapy itself is no guarantee of anything. Some people go to therapy to find elaborate ways to justify their bullshit
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I’m sure there are lots of great therapists out there who are doing their best to help people, I see you, appreciate you, etc etc.
And- simultaneously- I’ve sensed that there’s been this strange... valorization? glorification? of therapy happening. It feels v artificial to me
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QC had a great thread a while ago that suggested (this is my interpretation), if you’ve gone to therapy, and you subsequently become this judgey person who’s dismissive of other people’s attempts to become better people, maybe your therapist wasn’t very good? What are you doing
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starts here but the specific tweet visa's referencing is a few tweets down:
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what she says: go 
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what she means: i can see that you're really hurting and it frustrates me so much that i can tell how much better both of our lives would be if you got help with it. i love you but you're miserable and it's making me miserable. please get help
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what she means: i can see that you're really hurting and it frustrates me so much that i can tell how much better both of our lives would be if you got help with it. i love you but you're miserable and it's making me miserable. please get helpShow this thread
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hahaha amazing thanks :)
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i'm glad you linked me to the first one and let me get the buildup
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