The secert to therapy

is a joke

People imagine that it’s difficult to become a psycho therapist.

This is true. Schools have limited spaces. The work can be at times challenging and painful. The worst part of becoming a therapist is therapy school. The people there are terrible.

They say that many personal trainers have eating disorders and problems with how they look.

Therapists?

Or the people who go to and are attrected to to therapy school?

They are all batshit crazy. I have yet to meet one who’s not either totally neurotic at best or an absolute shit pile of a human at worst.

Me?

What the hell was I doing there for four years?

Playing along.

Complicit.

Totally neurotically so.

Now that I have some perspective on the matter I have determined that mental health care comes down to one simple joke:

Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I do this…

Doctor: Then don’t do that anymore.

That’s it.

That’s essentially what a therapist does.

We help people understand how they’re hurting themselves, then advise them not to do that anymore.

The ‘thi…