#ANYWAY. that's tonight's devious little rant. i would literally melt if i couldn't rant like a madman

[uncanny-tranny]

Talked about this in a tag rant, but in mental health advocacy spaces or mental health awareness spaces, it is imperative that we stop treating cognitive behavioural therapy as the Only Option or the Best Option. As a survivor, having CBT therapists coach me through ongoing abuse was very unhelpful at best. At a certain point, going to my "mind palace" did not help me go home to a place that was a threat to me.

Yes, there are good uses for CBT. No, that doesn't mean that it is the only option for helping people who are struggling. It is dangerous to prop up CBT as the only option. It is dangerous to not inform a patient about all treatment options and what would look best for them (it's also dangerous how insurance may only cover CBT therapists, too. It is extremely dangerous.)

#mental health #mental health advocacy #abuse #abuse tw #abuse mention tw #like yes i do apply *some* cbt techniques to my daily life but that didn't mean that i was helped significantly by it #also before somebody says i'm biased: yes i am. having 10+ years of nothing but CBT therapy (and a freudian/jungian therapist) didn't help #the freudian/jungian therapist was the worst by FAR tbf. like no other therapist can hold a candle to him #idk if he was a follower of jung or freud and tbh they're pretty similar if you don't know what to look for #and i wasn't in his 'care' for long before he literally fired me as a client #who would win: a literal teenager OR a fifty-year-old who sides with the kid's abuser #ANYWAY. that's tonight's devious little rant. i would literally melt if i couldn't rant like a madman #call me no-bark noonan the way i rant and rave <3