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I& #39;m tired of people pushing therapy as the ultimate solution to mental illness.I feel like "get professional help" rhetoric is becoming a way of individualizing mental health issues rather than addressing the structural oppression that causes them.
Finding a therapist that accepts what you& #39;re going through as real is hard for many considering MH professional spaces are dominated by white able-bodied neurotypical woman. Seeing a therapist that doesn& #39;t get or believe in what you& #39;re going through can be retraumatising.
Few have the time, emotional energy, and money to "shop around" to find someone that works. And while it& #39;s a helpful tool to cope with the mental impacts, you can& #39;t CBT yourself out of tangible inequality and structural oppression.
I& #39;m not saying therapy is bad, it& #39;s not! But just that it& #39;s not a solution to mental illness, and treating it as such ignores the existing access barriers, as well as erasing the very real fact that a lot of mental illness comes directly from the trauma of structural oppression.
Many people would have anxiety and depression to a lesser degree if they had financial security, cultural belonging and equality, and access to meet their physical needs. To pretend that these people just need to learn mindfulness and they& #39;ll be good to go, is not okay or honest.
