you can yeah! of course

its just such a severe indictment of the mental health system that every mental health professional doesnt know this EXTREMELY basic stuff, it's actually completely insane. no other field of medicine permits such a huge proportion of doctors to just not know what a heart attack is

yeah i just think that CBT (and mindfulness therapy) as a concept is utterly useless for someone who has mental illness severe enough that its disrupting their functioning. but unfortunately most therapists literally just dont know anything else

oh man i cannot imagine halving the doses of 4 mood stabilizers at once is a good time, i hope u find one soon

especially when their treatments for anxiety and depression focus around being present in the moment. well what if the moment fucking sucks dude. what if im genuinely having a really fucking bad time and there are really shit things going on in my life. do u still want me to "live in the moment"

like dude you went through YEARS of school for this. and youre telling me anything beyond "i get scared talking to people" is just beyond your capabilities? i dont get how there can be so many like this

ive found the term "trauma informed" usually means good things with therapists but yeah its still kind of a guess. theres a stunning amount of therapists who are utterly unequipped to handle anything beyond a standard anxiety diagnosis and it kinda baffles me

oh that shits a fucking nightmare yeah. i'm kind of at the point where i can be like yeah i want to up this dose or lower this one or stop this one myself and just ask my psychiatrist to fill the script which is easy but finding new meds also kinda falls to me mostly which sucks ass

i feel this even more for therapists tbh. its a coinflip between someone who knows about trauma and dissociative disorders and how to treat someone with actual major problems in their life and someone who will run me through the CBT curriculum 4 times before saying "ya idk i think ur broken, bye"