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… ...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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,...
