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  1. CW: Mental Health, Therapy

    Did my second session of #EMDR today. It’s such a different mode of #therapy compared to #CBT or #TalkTherapy or #GroupTherapy I’ve done in the past.

    I’m very hopeful this will help resolve the emotional rollercoaster I’ve been on in adulthood and get back to living the life I want to live.

    #ChildhoodTrauma #EmotionalNeglect #MentalHealth #Anxiety #Depression #PanicAttacks

  2. 🩺🧠 Group Therapy

    Friends end when you need therapy.
    They peer at your fence like Pharisees—
    Concerned, yes. But hollow.
    Their stares? Proud and piercing.
    Their help? Another cell I furnished myself.

    [Image: Edvard Munch, Anxiety (1894)]

    🖼️ #Poetry #MentalHealth #Munch #Art #GroupTherapy #AltText

  3. Irvin Yalom asked the members of hundreds (or thousands) of #psychotherapy groups to write down their worst secret fear. He said that these fears could almost always be classified as one of two things:

    • Fear of being unlovable or unable to love fully
    • Fear of not contributing sufficiently to the world around you

    He was initially trained as a Freudian1 psychoanalyst, so he called these fears
    "Lieben und Arbeiten".

    I sometimes think of this as I go through my life: everyone I meet or see, no matter how they present themselves, is probably struggling with (1) a feeling that they are not lovable or they don't know how to love others, and (2) a feeling that they have failed to make a difference in the world around them.

    This makes me feel closer to people, even people I don't want to feel close to.

    1 Freud was a shitty scientist and his theories were generally very bad. He was, however, an astute observer of human behavior and maybe an okay half-assed philosopher.

    #psychology #theory #grouptherapy #fear #ImposterSyndrome

  4. 🤔 Ah, the age-old question: Will AI replace us or just make us glorified Roomba supervisors? 🤖 Spoiler: This article manages to turn existential dread into a bizarre Elixir community group therapy session, complete with 🐑 electric sheep dreams and veiled hopes for #LLMs to fail spectacularly. 😅
    zachdaniel.dev/p/llms-and-elix #AIreplacement #RoombaSupervisors #ElixirCommunity #grouptherapy #existentialdread #HackerNews #ngated

  5. @nichorra Came across the "therapist is a guru" schtick back in the 1980s - one follower punched another when the therapist transfered their intimate expression of affection away from the puncher and to the punchee.

    Ah, #GroupTherapy with lax ethical standards - powerful stuff.

    And potentially very damaging.

    To the extent that improved mental health comes from being in a healthy relationship with the pyschologist/therapist/counselor, having a sef-deluded psych is a recipe for illness.