It’s so fucking ableist

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“What are five things you can see?” 🫩

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It could be helpful at the start of services to tell your provider how you’d like to be interacted with. Whether that’s direct or lighthearted or casual or purely focused on the issue. Everyone is a unique individual and most providers are willing to adapt, but speaking as someone that went into that field, we are taught to approach things a certain way because we don’t know how people will react or what their mental capacity is. Letting them know what you’d like helps them adapt quicker to you

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Sounds nicer than the Va. I get treated like a test subject

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I have a therapist that just treats me as an equal I can only afford him because of my insurance tho.

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This should only be used when someone is in an active panic attack and is disregulated. If someone is asking you about your senses when you’re effectively communicating and not mid-panic attack, they don’t know what they’re doing.

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why i’m scared to ask for help 😭😭

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I never got that treatment. Instead they left me on read for 10 minutes at a time while I was actively in the process.

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Biggest fear when seeking therapy lowkey

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Real. I already got this far, cmon now.

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don’t even start with how i was treated by my primary education. i was doing algebra three years early and they treated me like i was dumb. like what

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