Anonymous #3 6w

Yeah that makes me worried when I look for a therapist. My current therapist is good though, and my previous one was also pretty good. My current therapist is a white trans guy, and my previous one was a white Ivy-league cis woman.

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Anonymous strawberry_hair 6w

I’d expect them to understand racism and ableism but many of them don’t. And some of them will claim to be neurodivergent themselves, but then still be a toxic person in Greek life, like this one girl. The other one who harassed and assaulted me in my dorm was an alcoholic too. This went on for a week. Apparently I didn’t look like I lived there, even though I showed her that my ID unlocked the door. And she thought I had stolen somebody else’s ID because my hair was longer in the pic.

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Anonymous strawberry_hair 6w

Hope you’re doing well though. And thank you for being kind to me and others on here.

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Anonymous OP 6w

OMG somebody from my school found me and downvoted me

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Anonymous OP 6w

I’m so sorry that happened to you. I want you to know that we are absolutely taught these things in class. How racism- medical racism comes into play, how to be a safe place for all people of different experiences, how we need to take our current bias’ and change them because there isn’t any room for that in therapy. Some of my classmates are asshole- truly awful people. I’ve also had some very negative experiences with psych majors. And I wish I could say we aren’t all like that, but words wont

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Anonymous strawberry_hair 6w

prove that, actions will. I will always do my best to help people as best I can. As a neurodivergent queer- and newly disabled person I KNOW about how awful the medical system is.

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Anonymous OP 6w

I’m doing better than I was previously. I had a family crisis. I’m getting back to school soon. I’ll have my bachelors and I hope to continue helping everyone I can while I can.

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Anonymous #3 6w

This is a completely genuine question. What could someone who is a psych major do to break those stereotypes?

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Anonymous strawberry_hair 6w

Thank you so much!

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Anonymous strawberry_hair 6w

Yeah I thought psych majors learn that too which is what made her behavior even more shocking

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Anonymous strawberry_hair 6w

And she couldn’t even acknowledge that she was blackout drunk and mentally impaired as a result. She would get blackout drunk on weeknights.

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Anonymous #5 6w

I’m so sorry you’ve had such terrible experiences tho and I so hope that you are healing from what happened

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Anonymous OP 6w

We absolutely do learn these things. Some people just don’t take their own actions into consideration. Of the many people in the psych program in my school- I would say only a third actually should be therapists.

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Anonymous #5 6w

Thank you so much and sending lots of love!

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Anonymous #5 6w

Part of why I want to be a speech pathologist is because a lot of people in that field are like that too. It’s 77% white women and 95.7% women so I really stand out as an autistic trilingual (English, Hindi, Spanish) Indian guy in the room.

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Anonymous OP 6w

That’s so wonderful! I actually know a few people who are going down that path who aren’t the typical white women. Diversity in fields are so important!

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Anonymous #1 4w

That is the reason most of them went into psych to begin with.

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Anonymous #5 4w

My problem isn’t that they mostly sound fake and performative, it’s actually the opposite that I absolutely believe them when they talk about how mentally ill they are. And I do not want to be a patient in an asylum run by inmates.

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Anonymous #6 4w

I worked at a psych ward this summer and one of my coworkers was in the exact psych ward in a pretty intense program when she was younger so I get it trust. They do say to be in the field you gotta have something going on with you first and I feel like to a point yes but you don’t gotta flaunt yk

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