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James gifs from GQ NIGHT WITH CORTIS James & Martin

Reminds me of that one time a therapist told me that my parent couldn't change, because they didn't go to therapy. My parent used to genuinely be a bad person, but they put in a lot of personal work, they educated themself on so many topics (not only mental health related! for example, even though they used to be very conservative, they educated themself on queer topics, even before they knew I was queer), they started to think more critically and did many more things. It was over 30 years of hard work. I can't overstate how much they changed. But that's impossible, because they didn't decide to pay a stranger 50$ every week. Of course, they still have a lot of work ahead, but that's not the point. (sidenote: I don't want any advice or comments about my parent or my relationship with them)

The best case scenario with therapy is spending years on finding a good therapist and then years to get any results. Plenty of people can't even afford to play in this lottery.

And of course therapy is a magical cure for every mental illness. You go to therapy twice and you're magically cured! No more scary harmful things such as saying “weird” things and acting “weird”, because let's be real, that's what these people usually mean. So many mental illness relented terms are used to mean weird in a woke™ way. You need therapy. Take your meds. You're so autistic. People will always find more “woke” ways to be saneist.

When you're suicidal, people will go to any lengths, inflict any amount of abuse on you, all in the name of saving your life. Unfortunately, again, this is a quality of life issue, not a terminal illness. "Treatment" which reduces quality of life, such as incarceration in a ward, increases the chance of another suicide attempt.