Everyone thinks we're not skeptical enough of drugs and I think we're not nearly skeptical enough of therapy There are therapeutic modalities - whole schools of thought - from the goddamn 19th century that would've been banned for lack of evidence of efficacy if they were drugshttps://twitter.com/DadTrans/status/1287332919472730113 …
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I am not saying there aren't any good therapists or that they have an easy job I am saying that the way people talk about it they obviously think becoming a therapist is much harder than it is, and that therapists have way more regulatory oversight than they really do
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And if you think me saying this makes me an anti-psych crank with an axe to grind then you're probably a fairly privileged person who's had the luxury to shop around for therapists and not a member of a marginalized group that's one way or another been forced into therapy
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Honestly just one story about a young trans kid being forced to narrate to some creepy old dude "What do you think about when you masturbate" should be enough, never mind hundreds
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Friendly reminder that Kenneth Zucker's clinic ran a study about the "correlation between attractiveness and dysphoria" where ADULT STRAIGHT MALE VOLUNTEERS LOOKED AT TOPLESS 12-YEAR-OLDS TO DETERMINE WHETHER IT'S THE HOT ONES WHO GO TRANS
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AND JESSE SINGAL DEFENDED THIS MOTHERFUCKER FROM THE "ANTI-SCIENCE MOB"
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CBT is basically 99% of what's available here now and the pharma equivalent would be giving everyone ibuprofen. Fucking useless.
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As someone currently taking psych classes who is dismayed by how out of date all the textbooks are (based, on, uh, reading current research and living as someone who is actually trans and neurodivergent), I agree
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My human development class a year ago didn't even MENTION the existence of trans or queer people when talking about human sexuality. This is a modern, "progressive" university. I just...........
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