u/Character-Invite-333

Many of us have suffered enough. What would actually be helpful is to experience the opposite of that and let down our guards. I dont really believe therapy can be reformed but I think this was a key component missing in my therapy. Why do we, and especially the therapist, have to keep a suppressed, sad, and serious tone all the time?

Laughing can be empowering. Turning something negative into something lighter can help us deal with it. I want to feel comfortable, not scared.

I appreciate all who try to provide safe spaces in peer led support groups. But this exists there too. I seriously want to laugh or enjoy while trying to express and move on from my pain. Fun can help you genuinely connect with others too. Think comedy for example that criticizes or covers darker topics. It can be done.

I understand the risks, and acknowledge humor is not appropriate in all situations. But in my experience, its almost entirely absent. When pain is a constant and our living normal, humor would add a humanizing aspect.

This is at least one thing i found myself needing. It might not be the case for everyone.

The title.

As someone who thinks about suicide all the time and has for years, I really wish i could express it, and when I do, it be taken lightly. Thats my normal. Id like to might light of whats normal for me. Maybe even a joke here or there.

I do not want to be told to go to therapy for it. I do not want to hear that word. Mentioning therapy is the least helpful thing you could do.

Who writes this dialogue? It feels like mental health "rules" are written by people content with living in the world as it is today. You gonna listen to what would be helpful for me or speak for me and call me offensive to people like me, lol.

I think everyone ive met that was put on drugs as a child has expressed some form or harm or resentment about the fact they had to take drugs so young.

Maybe this is the wrong sub to ask, but does anyone know of adults who were drugged from childhood and are happy about it?

To me, it's one of the scariest things to not only drug children, but ingrain in them there is something wrong with their mind. But drugging children (and even pets now!) is becoming so common.

Question can extend to therapy.

Im just in so much doubt about myself. I want to report my therapist and ive been living in anger for years, so something about my experience must've been bad. I want to report for multiple violations.

Its undeniable my therapist was unprofessional, but some voice is telling me im just being vengeful to a person who meant no harm and tried to care about me. And now im trying to ruin her life bc I was not helped.

For some of the things id report her for, they arent black and white. Like maybe she made a mistake, but i let her make the mistake or agreed to be ok with it, and now im seeing it worse than it actually is because I want to "gotcha!" her. Like I want to destroy someone who was really not so bad. Or perhaps, I am remembering worse than what reality was bc my memory has not been the greatest. I am prone to doubting myself. I am also not a very happy person, and have been angry for a long time (hence why I sought therapy.) I find myself so unreliable, but there is a chance im not, and its just the doubts again. I have some evidence that will support what i say, but evidence is just that. Not the full story from both sides.

Please if there's anyone who can give advice on how to trust yourself, or maybe how you dealt with doubts yourself, if you experienced them, I really want to hear.

Hi, has anyone developed body aches from taking SSRIs? I started getting daily while taking the medicine. Its been years and I still have pain happen. I dont know if it's the drug that triggered aches for whatever reason, or it's pure coincidence.

Or any long term therapy really. Doesn't have to be 10. What makes you continue?

I dont know if im invalidating my experience or if it really wasnt that bad. I know for a fact, it did not help me in the long run. But I dont want to discuss that so much as..

Does anyone else feel this way about their own experience? If so, why are you so angry? Ive felt anger every day over this industry and therapists for over a year, probably multiple now. It is really a deep anger, and it surprises me that its become this much. I have ideas, but I cant tell how much im also just invalidating my experience or anger.

Does this make sense? Does anyone relate? What makes you so angry?