My previous therapist: Is capitalism in the room with us right now? Maybe there's problems but it's the best system we have!! I don't want communism, then everyone else gets paid the same as me!!!

Current therapist: is a landlord (but otherwise decent at the therapy job as long as I tiptoe around that)

[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 28 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Therapy would be so much better if the therapists were not trained to dismiss anything unrelated to your own subjective way of thinking about your problems. There are so many objective problems caused by capitalism leading thousands of people to depression and anxiety, but all therapists are allowed to say is how to cope with them and deal with them as if they're personal failings rather than systemic issues.

Real therapy should also include revolutionary thought besides coping, if you can't be happy under this system then at least chanel that anger right back at it, join your union, take part in protests etc.

[–] AmarkuntheGatherer@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago

Fair play but you know no profession could exist under capitalism telling people that their bosses and landlords dangling their well-being on front of them could use some help not being removed. Bourgeois culture already maligns therapists by incident, it'd bury them if 5% of therapists started suggesting fighting for strategic change.

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