And what gets me the most is that even therapy is like... worse than the unavoidable level of trauma. In large part BECAUSE they refuse to acknowledge it or let you acknowledge it! They don't let you say that you're not safe. They don't let you face what truly traumatises and abuses you currently. For many people, they don't even let you face past traumas or cut off contact with people who have raped you in the past (if they are family).

It's so crazy-making. It's just an environment of gaslighting. Pretending like the status quo of society is non-traumatising and that if you are mentally ill, YOU need to get fixed is gaslighting and it is abuse. It's like telling an abused child they need to do better, instead of holding the abusers (whether that's peers, teachers, parents, whoever) accountable. But therapy exists as a buffer to protect those that make us crazy from our wrath by diverting our attention and energies into harmless outlets and self-improvement strategies. Harmless to the powers that be, that is. Not harmless to the patients.

And if that doesn't work, we get locked up.

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