#my therapist supports my therianthropy

[pupzonline]

HAD THERAPY TODAY!!

We talked abt my therianthropy and she said “I totally respect that!” She understood right away that it’s my identity and she asked a few questions like “does that identity shape your personality?”, “would you say that you have some characteristics of a canine?”, And also “do you have an idea of a specific type of dog you are?”

I had fun answering them and then she gave me PLAYDOH. And she said that hopefully I get a lot of snow so I can play and run around and be my doggie self :)

SHE ALSO SAID THAT SHES A LION!! But a kind one. MY THERAPIST IS LITERALLYA LION, EVERYPUPPY!!

Chat she’s so cool. I knew she wouldn’t judge but I didn’t expect her to be this open. I LOVE HERRR AHHHHGH

Now we’re working on contacting my insurance provider to see if I can add another hour onto my appointments every other week so my momma doesn’t have to go out every single week but I could still have the same amount of time as going out every week

(This pic is gunna be me tomorrow)

[star-critter]

Do you need anything with your ongoing crisis?

Patience & Support. I have already started speaking with my therapist about it, and the conclusion is that due to mental health stuff, my brain seems to have done a factory reset on my Therianthropy. So it will take time for me to figure out which theriotypes I still am and if any new ones have developed.

I am a Doctor Starline Fictionkin, I am a Slugcat Otherkin, I am a Psychological Therian who is a Hungarian Mudi.

I talk more about the slugcat thing over on @stars-multifandom-den

[nabbit-unmasked]

What if you're all three of the gremlins? Blitzø, Vox, and Adam? What then? /lh /t

No but seriously speaking as someone whose host kins like three characters from both shows... yeeeeeaaaah, multiple kins from same sources can absolutely happen. /info

RIP to you /lh

Well, I suppose I'd go mad! But I already am, aren't I? It's already driving me crazy being one demon!

But, as time would tell it, I've experienced random mental shifts of Blitzy, and I have reasons to believe that I am Vox and Adam as well. In fact, I believe I've briefly experienced both phantom and mental shifts of them both. Fun stuff! /s

I keep getting "visions" of Blitz every now and then. An image of him just pops up in my mind, and I'm not sure what to make of it. Am I just thinking of him? Is it one of my memories? Is it me seeing myself as Blitz? I don't really know.

I already have enough pain dealing with the grief of my Blitzy, but I'm also feeling grief for Val. As bad as it sounds to others, I miss him and feel a longing when I see pictures of us. At least I was aromantic as Adam :')

My pain because of Blitzy affected my actual mental health a lot. I came out to my best friend as fictionkin (who is also supportive of my therianthropy) so I could have someone to talk to about it. I felt shameful then, but now, there are moments where I feel 100% Stolace and 0% Sage. It's just who I am. I'm thinking of telling my therapist tonight as well, because my grief for Blitz is..real. And it's affecting my ability to even work.

I don't know what will happen, but I'm prepared for a hard few weeks coming ahead.

[unashamed--felinity]

I told my therapist and psychiatrist about my therianthropy, and they of course asked all the questions you'd expect to make sure I'm not about to put myself in danger, but they were pretty quick to deem it harmless.

I don't speak for the experience of all other therians, obviously. But hateful people love to call us any number of psychiatric terms they don't understand, while my actual mental health professionals have deemed it no big deal.

And even if they didn't, why tf would that be any stranger on the internet's business to judge me over?

People on this site love to promote supporting the neurodiverse and/or mentally ill, until something "cringey" comes along, then mental illness is immediately used in a derogatory way.

[scalesandwanderlust]

bearxuniverse

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“I attempted to talk to my therapist about my alterhumanity and the...”

Some of the anti-kin claim their own therapists think we are unhealthy. I believe they mischaracterize our experiences and thus ensure their therapists think it is unhealthy. Any therapist I have personally talked to has been very supportive even if they had not encountered therianthropy before.

Claiming their own therapists are commenting? Now that I find baffling. I don’t personally know of many, if any, therapists who would go so far as to make a mental health comment on someone else’s experiences or activities without meeting them first. (Mine won’t even make a comment on the mental health of my abusers who have mental health diagnoses of their own because she hasn’t met them or worked with them.) Any therapist who does that I would at least raise an eyebrow at.

But mostly, I’m curious why anyone would even be talking at length about the identity of a complete stranger in a personal therapy session. But I’m inclined to believe the clients are misrepresenting it, if that’s even going on in the first place...which I sincerely have doubts about. I see no way that would be relevant in a session. Unless they were trying to gauge their therapist’s response just because they have doubts about their own identities and are afraid to bring it up. In which case they need a new therapist, because that one would be the exception, not the rule.

Funnily enough though, these are the same "intellectual” types who will write lengthy opinions about that weird self diagnosis culture this site has, only to suddenly obtain a masters degree in psychology the second they encounter otherkin that makes them feel so confident to make accurate diagnoses on their mental health.

I guess what we can all take away from this is that their opinions are worth little to nothing for a wide variety of reasons at this point.

[aurorathedragon45]

i got to explain my therianthropy to my therapist as well :)

turns out, because of me talking about my experiences? she found out her daughter is a therian and fully supports her!

yoir therapist sounds really chill and cool

Told my therapist about my fictionkin identities and how I felt like I was Mike/Cassidy/N on like more than a spiritual level (potentially some type of IRL situation) and it was a really nice long talk and I got to explain a lot and how I felt and what I experienced and my therapist thought it was really interesting and listened to what I had to say and even said some things that made what I was trying to say into understandable words and although we talked about me potentially suffering from some form of delusions it was okay because what I was experiencing and explaining to her wasn’t affecting me severely in day to day life and she makes me feel like I’m not crazy even if I do have these weird experiences and overall I really loved the experience. Gang I love my therapist she’s so lovely <33