My Hot Take on “You Should Consider Therapy”

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Healthcare that is only available to the privileged is eugenics, plain and simple.

Therefore, if someone says something to the effect of “you should consider therapy” when you come to them to ask for help, understanding, or accommodations, they are putting the burden of responsibility for fixing a problem on your shoulders, all the while knowing that this is a burden you cannot possibly bear on your own.

This is evil, and you are well within your rights to tell them to get fucked.

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But at the same time, don't behave like an asshole and blame it on a mental illness.

Like, don't use social media to send anonymous death threats and then say that you couldn't help it because of capitalism.

We're all doing the best we can, and that's just rude.

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Nothing happened, by the way.

This is just something I've been trying to articulate for about two years now, and it suddenly came to me while I was brushing my teeth in the shower this afternoon.

Idk, I've been thinking a lot about mutual aid networks these days.

I remember a lot of people mentioning "mutual aid networks" during the early days of the pandemic, but no one really explained what a mutual aid network is supposed to be. I think that this was probably because a lot of people who were using the expression don't know what it means, which makes sense, because a pandemic is not the right time to meet new people in your neighborhood.

In any case, a mutual aid network is a collection of people with specialized skills who distribute the products of their labor and expertise to other members of the group, usually by means of a physical location like a co-op or community center.

I was thinking about what I would be able to contribute to a co-op, and I was like, "...wow I sure the fuck don't know."

Then I had the thought that I'm technically a doctor, and that made me laugh.