#an owl gutted a baby rabbit in the yard and I wept for hours

[bonesandpoemsandflowers]

One young buck I know, blue collar and Latino, went to therapy due to being justifiably very stressed about everything (deported parent, shit wages, unstable home life) and the therapist asked him some variant on intent to harm (no) and do you have access to weapons and because he didn't come from the kind of background where therapists go easy on you and you've been coached to lie because everybody you know goes to therapy and everyone openly talks about how they lie except they don't even consider it lying it's just the context for how things are done--

anyway he said something like "well, not me but all my homies are strapped," and he was involuntarily committed and lost his well paying oil field job and generally had a hellish time and lost years of life progress. and was, you know. depressed and traumatized by the experience.

so yeah, useless at worst...if you're the right class and race and gender and you talk good. otherwise? all bets are off.

i do think therapy recommenders on here wildly irresponsibly downplay its potential risks lmao starting obviously w/ the threat of psych and criminal institutionalisation which is structurally inherent to the patient-physician relationship but also the maybe more mundane risk of simply receiving treatment that is bad for you and counterproductive. i do not know where the idea came from that therapy is 'at worst useless'. at worst it fucks you up majorstyle