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I find this take problematic. Therapy suffers from capitalism obviously, but that doesn’t mean it’s completely useless or just a tool to subjectivate you. I think what youre saying is true, but incomplete. Therapy absolutely helps me be a better communicator and organizer, and always supported my activism. Granted i was lucky to find a good one. I’ve learned mental/emotional tools now that help me more than i can say.
I resent this aspect of capitalism as deeply as anyone. My fear about your take is it could dissuade people from getting help who really need some in the meantime, even with things as they are. It’s a bit too doomer for my taste, maybe.
Also, DBT is literally dialectics. That’s like…our whole thing. As a modality it even de-emphasizes the expert/patient relationship. I see it as a potential line of flight out of commodity therapy, personally.
I like the way you phrase “asymptomatically approaching normal” 👍. I think i know the feeling, almost like you have to iterate a brand new personality to interact with the world. Previous normal is just kind of shattered into fragments that inform the new normal, but there’s a real uncomfortable space in between.
Ive been “blessed” with many experiences i describe as spiritual.
Well, being around death was pretty cerebral for one. Felt sad obviously, but like a full awareness my life had suddenly changed. You sure appreciate things differently.
Psychedelics did (…or do?) the trick in my case, but your mileage may vary, what can i say. Buyer beware. I come away with profound insights that help me cultivate a sense of, or develop a “relationship” with, you know… the divine. It feels like a trip, man. And then afterwards life still seems to confirm its trippiness.
Magick is another thing i might say triggered a spiritual experience. My first real “spell” was a simple chaos magick sigil casting experiment, and it blew my mind. I had what felt like a full blown psychedelic experience from that, even though i wasn’t on anything.
Also, at the rehab i went to (p m unrelated, but not not part of my experience), they offered “Holotropic Breathwork”. The things i experienced in that state while totally sober were some of the most viscerally profound, and life-changing intensities I’ve gone thru. Far out.
Yoga & meditation are also good catalyst’s. I got those as tools in rehab, too. Even with shoddy commitment to them, they seem to continue deepening the whole syndrome.
Shit can still suck but u learn to roll with it, cuz we’re all one thing experiencing itself,… so i guess it’s fine. 🤷
The numbers on forearms used to keep track of holocaust prisoners used by the nazis… was a proprietary system developed by IBM for the nazis. Does that count?