#The New Age mysticism/ psychotherapy bleed over is too big a topic to cover in a bitch post about one annoying platitude. | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

angstmonsterwrites · 2 years

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"They're just feelings," has to be one of the most dismissive and nihilistic bad mental health platitudes out there.

Ah yes, let's minimize one of the foremost psychological mechanisms through which we experience life, relationships, and ourselves as meaningless or inconsequential. Never mind their impact on our every decision, our bodily health--pretty much everything they touch, really.

It pisses me off so bad, I swear I could bite through a steel bar every time I hear it.

How is this saying even a thing, when 99.9% of the reasons people seek professional mental health help have a very great deal to do with regulating/processing/understanding their emotions?

Make it make sense.

#mental health things #musings #The therapist I had to fire a few months back looooved this one.#I have my opinion about why it's a thing: Professionals turned charlatans enabling emotional avoidance under the guise of 'therapy'.#There is a very real strain of therapist out there who forsakes and supplants science and real care w/ New Agey...stuff...#At least old Jung was eventually honest about having drifted from the science and turned 'mystic'.#But good grief that's still no excuse for abandoning basic common sense. 'Just feelings' my ass...#Anyway I'm rambling on tangents now.#The New Age mysticism/ psychotherapy bleed over is too big a topic to cover in a bitch post about one annoying platitude.#Not to say that spirituality has no place in a therapeutic setting but great care must be taken...

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