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There should be a ban on therapy for children, period. Any therapy.
Children are never the problem.
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”There should be a ban on therapy for children, period. Any therapy. Children are never the problem.”
But children are often among the victims in a pathological family situation — and victims frequently need help, including age-appropriate therapy.
Dreidel
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The children aren’t the ones who are pathological. The adults are. Instead of fixing the adults, we pathologize children.
I say this as somebody who grew up in a very psychological family situation.
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100% in favor of normalizing therapy for adults whose kids are having problems for which therapy is typically recommended.
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Exactly. The issue is always with the parents. Fix the parents, and the kids will perk up like nobody’s business.
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It’d be a hard sell for most of them, I think, but maybe if you couched it as parenting coaching strategies for unique children, or a totally-not-your-fault ‘mismatch’ between parenting style and kid learning style…
I know so many people who’d benefit, if we could make this just a normal thing parents do, or even a high-status luxury self-improvement product like getting a personal trainer or a healthy-food delivery service.
-ethyl
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Excellent idea. Of course, we’d need competent therapists and not peddlers of stupid ideology. The ones that start with the currently unpopular idea that children need mom, dad, and unshakeable stability.
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Transitioning is touted as “gender affirming therapy”
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Raymond R
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Precisely. In every case of children unhappy with their sex, it’s parents who need urgent and massive therapy.
When my son died, a colleague sought out my private phone number which I’d never shared with her to scream at me that my son’s death was inconveniencing her. Three years later, she transed her own son. That she was mentally unwell was obvious to everybody for years before that.
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Until and unless the medical profession is reformed, yes.
However, neurological damage or deficits, require therapeutic tools to help the child recover or compensate.
And of course, rescued ferals: though in that case, therapy for the foster parents et al., should be the first line, as it is for rescued dogs.
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let me put it this way: giving a child therapy without also giving it to the child’s parents is useless and damaging. The family unit must be treated as a unit, an ecology. However, children do experience traumatic events outside the family, in the outside world, for which support beyond the family, by a professional, makes sense. Speaking from personal experience of family therapy, which was life changing and wonderful.
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This is beautifully said. An ecology is the perfect word for this.
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