It is hard to find places to vent freely Anonymous 267143
Posting on image boards is shit because of misogyny, but at least you can talk back freely to rude people. On reddit if you ask a question or vent and somebody responds in a snarky way or tells you to go to therapy, something not everyone can do / a lot of therapists can be shit. You can't respond to them or you will get modified/downvoted for not agreeing, so you have to let the thread die. This might be petty, but I am kinda annoyed about getting stonewalled by either jokes or Go To tHeRaPy for being slightly upset about anything.
Anonymous 267144
i meant modded not modified sorry spellcheck
Anonymous 267149
Maybe you just haven’t found the right community. I’ve made vent posts and received nice replies, but they were in the appropriate places. I won’t name them for obvious reasons, but yeah, good places for this type of thing exist.
Anonymous 267150
>>267148
you have a point, i post sometimes in the aspie subs and although sometimes i get understanding responses, still sometimes i get the well you sound depressed so go to therapy
Anonymous 267154
Go to therapy is Reddit for stfu and I refuse to hear different. People just don’t want to hear it because it makes them feel uncomfortable, so they deflect with jokes or say something like “go to therapy” that sounds helpful but is actually just dismissive. Why they can’t just scroll and not comment is a mystery to me. Plus this “everyone needs therapy” culture is extra fucking stupid too.
Incoming blog: Take it from an upper middle class firstie who got diagnosed with the anxiety and depression meme and had access to meds and therapy on therapy while I was still living with my parents. It does nothing unless you have a specific problem to fix (like a phobia or specific trauma, not just intense emotions). I pretty much would just complain about school and not having friends at individual and use group to hear gossip from people with more problems than me. I’m happy I did it because it provided twice a week interaction with someone other than my mom and my judgemental classmates but did I need it? No, and expecting someone who isn’t 100% mentally stable but not psych ward bad to waste 5 years on therapy and SSRIs just because they could kill themselves but probably won’t is stupid
I made a private discord server with a vent channel and I also use my notes app. It’s free and discord/apple don’t care enough to get me 5150’d over my data
Anonymous 267159
>>267143I like going to therapy, but people act like it's so easy to get a good therapist. There are so many quacks out there and you have to pay them for the first few sessions just to realize they're not for you.
