And you become part of what makes it sick if you don’t have they tools to develop a deeper self awareness. I was profoundly skeptical of therapy for a long time, and also thought myself very self aware. But with a good therapist you can uncover enormous blind spots and generally improve how you treat yourself an others. Society is built by those within it.
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gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 2 months agoit is no sign of good health to be properly adapted to a profoundly sick society
MonkRome@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Zacryon@feddit.org 2 months ago
It helps to survive. You can still critizice the fucked system while suffering less from it. Often that’s the best one can do.
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It has nonzero value for many but that doesn’t elevate it to the status that we should shake our heads at people who don’t go. Like this tweet does.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I disagree.
An unwillingness to engage with therapy, or therapeutic ideas at least, is something I will condescend about. I don’t think very highly of people who have no muscle for self-improvement.
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Your logic is perfect as long as therapy is perfect, which it is not. Before you judge anyone on this, you need to allow for the fact that psychology is still a very inexact science and has also done a fair amount of harm over its history.
“No muscle for self-improvement” is not synonymous with “I don’t go to therapy.”
I would cautiously agree with you that it’s also not healthy to be totally against therapy. However in this tweet some men enjoyed a nice break from society and this tweet immediately went to making fun of them for not attending therapy.
THAT is a very big LEAP.