I get that these therapeutic tools work. I really do. I've read the studies, trust me.
But have you ever been asked to practice "self soothing" or write an "empowerment letter" or do a "thought record" for yourself?
Would you really actually be able to do it without feeling silly?
Would you really not feel like you should be "above" that?
Would you really not feel even a little bit patronized?

Or is this stuff that only broken people have to do? You get to not do it because your brain works right already, so you don't have to fix it.

Why did you want to be a ****ing therapist anyway? Do you have some sort of savior complex? Do you want to feel superior to the poor broken people and grace them with your superior wisdom and enlightenment? Do you think you're stronger or smarter or better because you didn't end up like this?

**** you. I'm smarter than you. Just because my emotional brain refuses to listen to my rational brain doesn't mean that my reasoning and critical thinking skills aren't better than yours. And I actually had to work for that. And I managed to do it while being super ****ing mentally ill rather than just being born lucky enough to not be super mentally ill and then thinking I was qualified to help the crazies learn to be happy and well adjusted like me.