sort of related to my last post: it is literally impossible to find therapists who are dealing with trauma rn and especially those who are working within ketamine protocol who arent also fucking reiki quacks and homeopaths and trying to put me on a “toxin cleanse”. I don’t think even one therapist I was referred to by the ketamine doctor (who was a fucking naturopath) didn’t have some shit about Kundalini Energy or Toxins or drum circles on their websites.
my last therapist told me to try craniosacral therapy, which is where you lie on a table and a hippie puts their fingertips on your skull “with the pressure equivalent to the weight of a nickel” to “adjust your cranial bones”.
well i looked this up. it’s been tested because we can actually test stuff like “how hard do i have to squeeze to make someone’s skull bones move”. it takes significantly more pressure to adjust the cranial bones of a rabbit than the fingertip pressure being exerted on a grown human skull during “craniosacral therapy”. it’s placebo. very effective placebo which utilizes the demonstrably healing principles of bedside manner, calm interest in the patient, and the laying on of hands, but placebo nonetheless. putting on a pair of glasses puts more pressure on your skull bones than “craniosacral therapy”.
here i finally found the thread i made about it on twitter where i actually worked out the numbers:
i politely informed the therapist of this, she made a face, and as a result i never made another appointment. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
i have a simple request and it is to stop saying Bull Shit to my face, and im not sure why this is so difficult when presumably the people who went through 4-8 years of medical or therapeutic schooling have access to all the same pubmed articles that i do, without even having to use sci hub to get into them.
trauma is a somatic injury and placebo/reiki/snake oil are somatic treatments, which is why a LOT of CPTSD patients end up there after decades of getting worse in CBT type therapies. but i cannot and do not benefit from them because i simply dont trust goofy rainbow rhythms dorks to heal me with the power of crystal energy beams and you absolutely have to believe it and trust them in order to actually benefit from the placebo.
so what the fuck
