pipistrellus:

pipistrellus:

I wanna go back to sleep but I can’t bc I can’t stop thinking about a post I saw earlier which was yelling at/shaming victims of medical/psychological abuse & forced institutionalization for being “negative” & “discouraging people from seeking treatment” by talking abt their abuse as part of a larger system-wide problem & for advising caution to ppl considering treatment

Hey. Dont… say things like this. Don’t fucking talk to survivors this way. You dont get to throw us under the bus so u can push ur weird aggressively reductionist ~recovery~ agenda which pretends like fucking MENTAL HOSPITALS are great and have no drawbacks whatsoever. Do you live in fucking CLOWN WORLD??? Cool good talk bye 4evr

The thing I especially can’t get over is the condescending “I’m sorry you had a BAD EXPERIENCE but it’s not fair to JUDGE ALL THERAPISTS based on that” like really? Medical abuse by a mental health practitioner isn’t ~A bad experience~ that you ~can’t let color your views of therapy in general~. A bad experience that you can’t let color your views of something in general is, like, if you stayed at a chain hotel and there was some kind of deeply unpleasant but decidedly non-traumatic Towel Situation.

Oh yeah “sorry about your systematic medical abuse but listen you can’t let it make you less open minded and rational about medical treatment than I, someone with no experience w/ medical abuse, obviously am” he ha ha ha ha ha ha medical abuse is real and it’s institutionalized and ppl who don’t encounter it are lucky and acting like the system isn’t broken doesn’t help anyone.