Successful psychiatric or psychological therapies typically lead to remission and effective coping strategies rather than a complete cure. This type of therapy is vulnerable to becoming a loop: something’s wrong with you, we’re not quite sure what it is, but we’ll keep looking—and billing.

This NYT piece is an endless stream of bangers. I swear, one of the more destructive recent cultural trends has been the combined push to frame all distress or discomfort as mental illness, and then to encourage people to form their identity around being “mentally ill.” https://t.co/UW70inBXUL

They missed that you can't ‘discharge’ or ‘release’ what was never a single event. Shaking. Tremoring. Completing the interrupted fight-or-flight sequence. These tools assume a charge that built up and needs release. A tiger you couldn't escape. An accident you couldn't process. But how do you shake off twenty years of sucking in your stomach? How... See more