one benefit to me from the responses to the tweet in which I vented my frustrations about my bröther confessors who have an insufficient understanding of psychology is that I was reminded that many psychologists also have an insufficient understanding of psychology
if a professional who is getting lots of 💰 for spending time with you is telling you that all of your interior confusion & suffering is the correct response to the world, and all you can do is blindly react to external circumstances that will always control you, pls go elsewhere
I guess it’s kind of interesting that this bad take is the opposite of the usual postpostmodern bad take, which is that the world itself is unreal or a blank slate or an adversary for you to impose your own inviolable will upon. Both sides of the coin are dumb.
We need to hold it all in tension: the external world is real, your interior life is real, and you do have free will, which is powerful and determinative but also limited and broken. There are real challenges & real responsibilities & beauty & darkness & you are not alone. ❤️🔥