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 (DIR) Post #Abnd1xI2wBN7CB4cs4 by ohgodpls@spinster.xyz
       2023-11-14T12:31:59.101384Z
       
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       A brief follow up on my previous post. When I was diagnosed with the generalized anxiety disorder, at first it felt relieving. Finally there is some decent explanation why everything sucks! And then it stopped being so exciting. Therapy didn't make much sense. Antidepressants and tranquilizers helped somewhat, but I was told that the main thing is the cognitive-behavioral therapy. Except that I didn't agree on how it goes. The therapist assumed that my predictions about the world were incorrect. When I was anxious about overly criticized, or about not performing as well as I hoped, when I was anxious about people being hostile towards me. He always said like "but is it really the case? can we set up a little experiment"? I didn't want any stupid experiments. It felt like walking into a cage with lions after you said that the lions might eat you, just to prove that it might really happen. Although I do have to admit that of course sometimes my predictions were wrong. But I feel like it was like the exception that proves the rule.And now I wonder - am I really ill? Because having a disorder means that your thoughts are irrational, aren't based on anything.I don't believe that it's the case with most women diagnosed either with anxiety or depression. All we do is just we assess the world correctly :l
       
 (DIR) Post #AbndJdHw2gVUNDS0rQ by Mynona@spinster.xyz
       2023-11-14T14:11:54.387547Z
       
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       @ohgodpls Therapy is bullshit 98% of the time. There's most people whom it doesn't help, then there's a small group of people who just use it to vent and chat and like it, and then there's a tiny minority of people who were actually helped by it either due to being very lucky or using it as a support for their own self-work. Depression, anxiety, bpd, ptsd are called disorders because they disrupt your "normal" functioning but they're absolutely normal universal reactions to situations of stress or trauma or helplessness.