US Supreme Court rejects Colorado's ban on LGBT 'conversion' talk therapy

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20. There are good and bad therapists

A good therapist can literally save your life. A bad one can ruin it.

Unfortunately, pop therapists and the Internet are giving the practice a real dirty name. And how our culture now kind of talks in this weaponized therapy speak is not great.

I haven't needed therapy in years, but when I did, I was glad I managed to find two good ones. And they weren't the first ones I found. It's a weeding process. You have to look around to find one on your wavelength.

Our society really doesn't teach people how to cope. With stress, anxiety, fear, inferiority, frustration, anger. Any of it. If someone's raised with good support, be that friends, family, or community, they may naturally acquire those skills. But a nice healthy chunk of our society is let out into the world with no idea how to navigate the mental pitfalls. Some are lucky to learn along the way, some are resilient, some adapt, and some crumble.

A good mental health worker should never be discounted.