DharmaGirl
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I totally agree. It doesn't work for everyone and the T is quick to call therapy resistant. Mindfulness works best for me, but it isn't helpful for lots of people.
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my experience of CBT therapists was terrible and I've had it said to me by certain support workers how it's a short term band aid and doesn't address a lot of core issues. If it works for some people then that's great though.I just wanted to share to share some space for other people who may be cbt critical. I often times get the impression with cbt type therapy that if it didn’t work we are asked to hold personal responsibility. Like we didn’t do the work we didn’t do the homework it’s our fault we’re not doing it right.
I’m seeing online a lot of up and coming therapist who are also critical of cbt. There seems to be a turning of the tide with it.
it makes perfect sense that it’s not for everyone. Antidepressants aren’t, emdr isn’t, so why is cbt (in the uk) the go to and no other options are given. It doesn’t make sense. Well it makes sense when it’s a set amount of sessions and therefore cheap but, for everyone? It just can’t be.
t makes perfect sense that it’s not for everyone. Antidepressants aren’t, emdr isn’t, so why is cbt (in the uk) the go to and no other options are given. It doesn’t make sense. Well it makes sense when it’s a set amount of sessions and therefore cheap but, for everyone? It just can’t be.
It's not that I don't believe women can be oppressed . . . it's that I believe that white women will never know or experience the monstrosity of brutality and oppression that Black and Brown women wake up to every single day of their lives, cradle to grave.I think it’s....telling....that you only believe people of color can be marginalized. Women are by default the “other” in society. This is evidenced by so many things, of which the medical industry alone is a huge issue in this realm.
Unless, you know, you’re a white woman in Africa, the Middle East, India, Asia, Pacific Islands, or South America... or the wrong shade of white (or cheekbone shape, nodding at the Sami) in places like Scandinavia & Russia. And in some of those places brutality against women, and/or racist hate crimes aren’t only NOT illegal (as they are in most of North America & Europe), but codified into law -and taught in schools, on the street, day in and day out- as the correct behaviour.white women will never know or experience the monstrosity of brutality and oppression that Black and Brown women wake up to every single day of their lives, cradle to grave
I don't understand what the point of this is. It really feels like you want to minimize the experience of women who aren't white based on some imagination of someone minimizing the oppressive experience of white women.Unless, you know, you’re a white woman in Africa, the Middle East, India, Asia, Pacific Islands, or South America... or the wrong shade of white (or cheekbone shape, nodding at the Sami) in places like Scandinavia & Russia. And in some of those places brutality against women, and/or racist hate crimes aren’t only NOT illegal (as they are in most of North America & Europe), but codified into law -and taught in schools, on the street, day in and day out- as the correct behaviour.
And that’s before even touching thing like being a white Muslim woman (Circassian, ethnic Albanian, etc.) in the west, or severely deformed/disabled, or any of the other ways people are marginalised.
World Wide Forum.
Which includes not only the ‘institutionalized monstrosity of brutality and oppression’ of being a minority -or a woman- going about their normal lives... but being a PTSD forum, also those who have been victims of or lived with human trafficking, fought or worked in wars/genocides, lived through wars/genocides, rape camps, refugee camps, secret police, etc.All of those are part of my trauma history, but you don’t see much of that in the States. One DOES see cabs, and anyone who takes cabs knows how freaking difficult it can be if there’s something “wrong” about you. Race, scariness factor, wrong neighborhood, looking too poor to pay, whatever.
When I last lived in Tehran the penalty for not exiting a cab fast enough if a man entered, because shared cabs are a thing, much like busses here, people enter/exit with other people in them... was to be arrested, driven out to the edge of town, gang raped by the police, stripped mostly naked, and forced to walk home in shame. Anyone who tried to offer you any assistance would be arrested -not then, necessarily, but if anyone reported it, at any time- or simply beat to death. The safest thing would be to participate in the humiliation (throw something, assault them yourself, etc.) but most people, even if you disgust them or they hate themselves for not acting, just try not to look. But at least in Iran I could take a cab -as long as I was always willing to give up my seat, and move to the back of the queue on the street- and, like most places the people themselves are lovely even if the laws are horrific. There were a lot of places I lived it wasn’t safe to take a cab, full stop. Either because K&R was big business, or because getting gang raped to death was local sport.
Every time I get grumpy at an über driver or cabbie stateside, I just try and remember how much worse my problems used to be, with cabs.
I know the cross-cultural aspect of a world wide forum can be a bit brain bending. What makes a person invisible -or untouchable- in one place, marginalizes them in another.
My point is that this is a worldwide forum.I don't understand what the point of this is.
That’s good to hear. As what you apparently mistyped wasSimply acknowledging the oppressive experience of Black and Brown women in this life does not negate the oppressive experience of white women.
I believe that white women will never know or experience the monstrosity of brutality and oppression that Black and Brown women wake up to every single day of their lives, cradle to grave.