by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 12, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Power and Systems in Mental Health, Trauma-informed
Complex Trauma Weaponized They call it Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). I call it The Scarlet Letter of Psychiatry. A diagnosis slapped onto survivors when their pain is too raw, too messy, too inconvenient for the system to stomach. A label used to control,...
by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 9, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health, Relational Healing, Trauma-informed
The Trauma-Industrial Complex “Trauma-informed” has become a marketing brand. It’s stamped across websites, plastered on intake forms, sprinkled into bios. It signals, “You’re safe here. We get it.” But more often than not, it’s just branding… a sales pitch. There’s...
by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 8, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Therapy Harm, Trauma-informed
Dissociation Isn’t Uncommon. It’s Human. Dissociation gets treated like an uncommon, worrisome, exotic symptom… the mark of the most “severe” disorders. Dissociation is human. Everyone does it…. Zoning out while driving and realizing you’ve missed your...
by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 5, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Plurality
Plurality Isn’t the Pain…Trauma Is Plurality often gets blamed for the distress we feel. Clinicians, families, and even some survivors themselves collapse the two together: “If only I wasn’t plural, I wouldn’t struggle like this.” But that’s not the truth....
by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 3, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Trauma-informed
Plurality Is Born Into Shame… But Shame Isn’t Ours Plurality itself isn’t shameful. It is a way of being human… one that has existed across cultures, across histories, across lives. But in our world, plurality rarely gets the chance to exist without shame....
by The Anti-Therapist | Aug 30, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Relational Healing
There’s a raw difference between PTSD, cPTSD, and the chaos that forged you. The mental health world loves to box human suffering into tidy little acronyms: PTSD, cPTSD, pick your favorite flavor of alphabet soup. But here’s the thing… those labels rarely hold the...
