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WTF Happened to Friends? Relational Starvation, Pajamas on the Couch, and the Lie That Texting Is Enough

WTF Happened to Friends? Relational Starvation, Pajamas on the Couch, and the Lie That Texting Is Enough

by The Anti-Therapist | Jan 18, 2026 | Community Building, Relational Healing

We are starving in a world that calls texting friendship. This isn’t nostalgia. This isn’t “missing the old days.” This is relational starvation. The kind you feel in your chest at night when you’ve technically “talked to people all day” and still feel hollow. The...
When Professional Groups Become Coercive Ecosystems

When Professional Groups Become Coercive Ecosystems

by The Anti-Therapist | Dec 2, 2025 | Community Building, Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health

The Violence Hidden Inside “Standards,” “Safety,” and the Dismissal of Lived Experience Coercive control isn’t always loud. It isn’t always overt. In professional groups… especially within mental health, trauma work, and “trauma-informed” collectives…  coercive...
Not Against Therapy. Against Limiting Healing.

Not Against Therapy. Against Limiting Healing.

by The Anti-Therapist | Oct 6, 2025 | Community Building, Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Relational Healing, Therapy Harm

(And… obviously, but not so obvious to some, against therapy harm.) Setting the Record Straight Let’s clear this up right now… I am not against therapy. I’ve sat in those chairs. I’ve done the work. Therapy has saved lives… including mine. It can be sacred,...
When Being Human Becomes a Diagnosis: The DSM’s Business of Brokenness

When Being Human Becomes a Diagnosis: The DSM’s Business of Brokenness

by The Anti-Therapist | Oct 3, 2025 | Community Building, Power and Systems in Mental Health

How Much of Being Human Is Still Allowed? The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders… the DSM… began as a slim little book. Now it looms like a thick “encyclopedia”, stuffed with codes and categories that sprawl across the entire terrain of human life....
Plurals Don’t Just Survive. We Hold Each Other Up

Plurals Don’t Just Survive. We Hold Each Other Up

by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 27, 2025 | Community Building, Plurality

Plural support is not some watered-down, clinical “coping strategy.” It’s raw, brilliant, and revolutionary. While the world calls us “broken,” we build worlds inside and between us that prove otherwise. Inside Our Systems: The Original Mutual Aid We don’t wait for a...

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  • You Don’t Have to Become One to Be Whole
  • WTF Happened to Friends? Relational Starvation, Pajamas on the Couch, and the Lie That Texting Is Enough
  • When Models Replace People: Relational Accountability, Phase Dogma, and the Quiet Harm of Legacy Authority in Trauma & Dissociation Care
  • When Influence, Humor, and “Expertise” Collide: A Plural Clinician’s Critique
  • Healing The Holiday Hangover… When the Exhaustion Hits Hard

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