thread of therapy and therapy-like thingies that have helped me or people i know:
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How did you "become ok" (or even become excited) with doing therapy thingies? My first mental block is the thought "if im having to put so much effort into this, im ngmi"
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total desperation. i was lonely and depressed and miserable, i felt bad literally all the time. didn’t seem like i had any other options really :/
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most of the people i know doing something like this are similar. hitting rock bottom is a great motivator 😅
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the other thing is that the first tastes of progress i got (through acid and then actually through something that’s not on this list, hmm) felt so much better than anything else i was doing that i was like “okay i have no idea what’s happening here but i’m gonna keep going”
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the third thing is that when i started i was a grad student and had both a comfortable net of savings and a ton of free time because i was, uh, not really doing any research. so i was in a very privileged position to be able to spend a ton of time and some money on this
a lot of the other people i know doing stuff like this, again, are similar - many had tech jobs they quit b/c they couldn’t stand them anymore and now have comfortable amounts of savings to live on while going to workshops or doing solo stuff etc.
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