A Former (Hurt) Client Thinking of Becoming a Therapist...

People got by for all of human history without therapists. Now suddenly some people can't live without them?

Trauma, grief, depression, etc have historically been addressed within the context of real relationships, tribe, family, community.

Now the sufferer is taken out of this context and isolated in a room with a stranger who uses pseudo-medical and clinical concepts and pretends to be some sort of relationship scientist who administers "treatment" and charges by the hour.

Frankly I found it to be like religious or cult indoctrination. The message is... your life difficulties are beyond the reach of your own resources and capacities and real life relationships, and you need to sign up with a guru to be saved.

I get that some people are out of options and might benefit from trying therapy. But seems it should be seen as last resort and a terrible model. Approach with extreme caution.

And in this case you have to ask what is wrong with the way we are living and how can that be addressed. Therapy does not address root causes, it exploits the downstream effects.

People have always healed via organic social systems and thru living close to nature, as our biology expects and demands. Not thru psych cults, artificial relationships, e-relationships, pill bottles, stigmatizing labels.

I had to do this at the clinic I went to (where I was traumatized), and never mind the fact that it just felt so impersonal and invalidating, but the results of my scores on each of those questionnaires each week didn’t feel to me like they accurately reflected how I was doing.