You Were Never Sick. You Were Scapegoated: The Myth of “Mentally Ill” Was Never Ours to Carry

by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 18, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Power and Systems in Mental Health

The Lies We Were Taught What would it mean to stop calling our survival a sickness? What would it mean to rip off the labels…  “mentally ill,” “disordered,” “broken”…  and see them for what they really are?…  Weapons. Shackles. Profit machines. You Were Named...

Why Are We Always the Researched, Never the Researchers?

by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 16, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health

Welcome to the Freak Show (Apparently, That’s Us) Plurality, autism, ADHD, trauma, neurodivergence… we’re the lab rats, the freak show, the never-ending grant proposal. Singletons love to put us under their microscope like they’re David Attenborough narrating… ...

Letter To My Client: You’re Right. Therapy Alone Can’t Hold the End of the World

by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 14, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Therapy Letters, Trauma-informed

Dear Client, You’re not selfish for struggling to breathe while the world collapses. You’re not wrong for bringing apocalypse into the room. You’re not “too much” for being overwhelmed when every new crisis lands on top of the old scars you’ve carried for years....

Letter To My Therapist: How Am I Supposed to Heal While the World Burns?

by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 14, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Therapy Letters, Trauma-informed

Dear Therapist, How the hell am I supposed to sit here and “focus on me” when the whole world is on fire? Every headline screams collapse. Every conversation with my clients, my kids, my friends, spirals into fear. And I’m supposed to come into your office and make my...

Structural Dissociation… Not Our Map

by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 13, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health, Theories, Therapy Harm

The Darling of Clinicians Structural dissociation theory has become the golden child of trauma treatment. You’ll see it everywhere… in EMDR trainings, in supervision groups, on conference slides, in the margins of textbooks. Its diagrams… those neat...

Plurality as Neurodivergence, Not Pathology

by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 12, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health

Plurality Is Not a Disorder For decades, plurality has been shoved under psychiatric labels… Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), Other Specified Dissociative Disorder (OSDD). Each one stamped with the word “DISORDER.” Each...