by The Anti-Therapist | May 7, 2026 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Relational Healing
“But they aren’t really children.” That sentence gets said in a lot of different tones. Sometimes it sounds clinical, like a quiet correction offered with professional confidence. Sometimes it sounds skeptical, like someone testing the edges of a reality they don’t...
by The Anti-Therapist | Apr 16, 2026 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality
Rage is not the opposite of tenderness. It’s the fire that clears space for softness to thrive. We’ve been told we can only be one thing… angry or kind, hard or soft, loud or gentle. But that’s a lie. We are a multitude. We hold contradictions. We carry spectrums. And...
by The Anti-Therapist | Apr 14, 2026 | Complex Trauma, Power and Systems in Mental Health, Relational Healing, Trauma-informed
There’s a phrase floating around right now like a trendy little lint ball stuck to everyone’s emotional sweater: “trauma dumping.” The general public throws it around to sound psychologically informed, therapists whisper it to each other as a warning sign, and somehow...
by The Anti-Therapist | Apr 1, 2026 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health
The Script Written for Me From the very beginning, my story wasn’t mine. It was written for me… in whispers, in files, in charts, in diagnoses, in the heavy sighs of professionals who had already decided my fate before I even had the chance to imagine one for myself....
by The Anti-Therapist | Mar 13, 2026 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health
When There Was Never a “Before Trauma” to Begin With Everywhere, people keep asking… “Who were you before they labeled you disordered?” “Who were you before trauma?” “Who were you before the world told you who you were?” For those of us who were born into harm…...
by The Anti-Therapist | Feb 1, 2026 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health
Response to NYT article “What It’s Like to Live With One of Psychiatry’s Most Misunderstood Diagnoses” I read the New York Times Magazine piece (listed at the end of this) on Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and felt that familiar, hot, nauseous mix of recognition...
