While trying to wake up I was watching a critique of the company BetterHelp which, y'know, is absolutely great
fuck those guys
but I also wish more people would critique the growing narrative of "everyone needs therapy"
I've found that whenever you try to push back on that you'll get a lot of "well you need to find the right therapist" and if you push back on that you'll get more outsized "why don't you want people to be healthy??" reactions or be called anti-healing or the like
because the assumption is so ingrained in folks that therapy just is good
that it, inherently, will fix broken things in you
that when you try to say "no sometimes it does more harm than good and people get to make that judgment for themselves" what they hear is the psychic equivalent of "vaccines are a scam"
