• ᵀʰᵉʳᵃᵖʸᴳᵃʳʸ@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 hours ago

    I absolutely agree. As a therapist with personal experience, I think it would be cool af and an overall good idea if university degree courses for becoming a therapist included an elective- but highly encouraged- course which focuses on simulating different symptoms

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      6 hours ago

      As a slightly masochistic psychonaut it’s crazy how I see someone with almost any mental illness/symptom and I don’t even question it, like I get it. I’ve been there. And I’m really glad I could come back, people are stuck there. It’s crazy that therapists and psychologists are spending years trying to understand something that can simply be experienced in a day. Even decades of study won’t give you the level of understanding that a single experience would.

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        4 hours ago

        At an agency meeting once, we played “never have I ever” and one of them was “nhie gone a week without showering;” I was the only one who had, and I got some seriously judgmental looks