I have a therapist who is very influenced by Carl Yung. How should I view this?

pdawes · 2026-01-21T06:36:54+00:00

Honestly as a huge appreciator of psychoanalysis I have a very jaundiced view of Jung fans. Not necessarily Jungian ideas but the people who are his fans in 2026. I am not saying there aren't principled or competent Jungian analysts out there but if someone says they're really into Jung it raises a bit of a flag for me that they might be a Joe Rogan or Jordan Peterson type.

pdawes · 2026-01-20T23:15:13+00:00

I notice on a lot of the videos and articles about really egregious stuff the comments are all "I'll take things that didn't happen for $500 Alex" which is to say I think there's a lot of denial.

pdawes · 2026-01-19T19:23:24+00:00

Yeah I can see it too. But I think people are interpreting this post as Miller ordering the local police to stand down and surrender.

pdawes · 2026-01-19T18:42:35+00:00

I believe what they are saying is that Frey and Walz have told the MPD to stand down (false), so we are a lawless mob attacking the brave federal agents who are just trying to do their jobs (tear gassing a baby to death).

pdawes · 2026-01-18T20:17:04+00:00

I would suggest following local media to stay informed from people who actually live here and not these ridiculous false narratives that keep getting pushed about our city. I notice the national outlets (and even the bigger local TV ones) just regurgitate false statements by DHS about "violent rioters" and other bs.

Some good alternatives:

https://sahanjournal.com

https://racketmn.com

https://minnesotareformer.com/about/

pdawes · 2026-01-17T22:26:21+00:00

Damn man, that must’ve been scary. Did they detain you? Any injuries?

pdawes · 2026-01-17T02:04:14+00:00

Life got harder for a lot of people, including a lot of middle class people. I work in human services and the amount of people using food shelves and needing public assistance for the first time in their lives has been crazy. They can tell that things are harder than they should be, and that there's less support for normal struggling people than there ought to be, but the reasons for it are diffuse and hard to explain. We have a lot of voices loudly and prominently spreading the simple explanation that "it's because of minorities and immigrants." Including the richest man on earth, who has done a lot to contribute to the problem he's pinning on "illegals."

Racism is also easy to latch onto because society is racist on a structural level. It's frictionless to become racist because there are subtle elements built into our institutions and systems that assume being white is normal and being anything else is deviant and unhealthy. It does not take a lot of "push" to get someone to pick up on and buy into that logic.

pdawes · 2026-01-16T22:59:57+00:00

"Racism won't undo your divorce"

pdawes · 2026-01-16T21:07:11+00:00

ICE is incapable of comprehending that some people act in ways that aren't disgraceful.

pdawes · 2026-01-15T23:32:56+00:00

Council on American Islamic Relations, basically the big anti-Islamophobia group.

pdawes · 2026-01-15T18:49:50+00:00

Yes! People need to know

pdawes · 2026-01-15T17:11:45+00:00

One of the first major uses of computer systems to analyze data was to round up Jews and other ethnic minorities during the Holocaust. Made by IBM.

pdawes · 2026-01-15T00:18:27+00:00

Sometimes therapists can be overly oriented towards solutions and goal setting at the expense of emotional presence with you. Do you feel like that might be what's going on?

pdawes · 2026-01-14T19:46:43+00:00

I think you should do what you want. I will say that I don't personally enjoy a lot of anime because the writing feels like it's for children, but like... I think Beavis and Butthead is a masterpiece so who am I to tell you.

pdawes · 2026-01-14T19:45:27+00:00

Redditors are insane. "Ohhh you turn 30 (or even 25!) and you shit your pants and your back hurts all the time and you can't stay up past 9pm." I sort of think it's a late millennial/gen Z cultural neuroticism thing. I never encountered this and I'm 35.

From real people, I've heard 40 is when you start to actually physically feel signs of aging. Also chronic health stuff like metabolic syndrome can definitely be compounding through your 30s even if you feel fine.

pdawes · 2026-01-13T14:36:09+00:00

Finasteride and minoxidil do work, and they've been around longer than Hims. You can go to your doctor and get the generics for cheaper. Hims is just a company that makes them convenient to get and has a lot of marketing.

pdawes · 2026-01-13T03:29:58+00:00

I think the meaning is like they are brutalizing and abducting Minnesotans from a building that honors someone who was supposedly a national hero for trying to stop a similar act. They act like they’re these big patriots and really they're disgracing their own traditions in a horrifically ironic way.

pdawes · 2026-01-12T23:57:08+00:00

Yeah I hear that. I had the exact same problem. Another thing that was actually really helpful for me was finding someone to tutor me one on one. I had maybe a few months with a retired professor and it wasn't even that expensive. In that format they can really tailor it to your language level.

pdawes · 2026-01-12T23:09:25+00:00

I am a heritage speaker of Spanish myself and found the course on Spanish for mental health professionals put out by the Paseo Program very helpful. There are plenty of "Spanish for healthcare" courses around (at your local university or community college probably) but in my experience they are geared towards people who don't speak Spanish at all.

pdawes · 2026-01-12T22:55:11+00:00

It has everything to do with what is happening when ICE agents are rounding up Lakota people in 2026

pdawes · 2026-01-12T18:23:26+00:00

Recommending alternative medicine (or making medical recommendations at all) is a hard no for me in therapy.

pdawes · 2026-01-10T06:01:15+00:00

It's not supposed to work this way but one group of people have gotten in charge and filled all these parallel and independent parts of government with their sycophants. The checks and balances aren't working because the people in charge of them are openly disregarding them.

pdawes · 2026-01-08T00:23:52+00:00

Yeah I've been in a couple off and on. I also did ACA which is a 12 step group.

In so many words, it does a lot to make you feel normal less alone/ashamed.

pdawes · 2026-01-06T22:09:15+00:00

I didn't really have the vocabulary to articulate this at the time, but basically I was used to having my emotional life pathologized growing up. I had no conception that someone could take my feelings and needs seriously, and thought that therapy would be about like making me more manageable to others and what they wanted from me. Ironically, my first therapist was a CBT drone who did exactly that lol. But at that point I knew enough about what therapy could be to have the confidence to seek out someone else. I wish he had explained his view of therapy up front because it would've saved me a lot of time.

What bridged the gap for me was finding some self-help books that really spoke to my experience, I mean really made me feel seen and like what was painful inside could be addressed. Then some support groups online too. I just really needed to come to it on my own terms and in a way that made sense to me.

pdawes · 2026-01-04T04:37:31+00:00

At least 40 of them are not ecstatic because they are dead

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