The Medicated Therapist 🌸

Trauma Certified MSW, LSW, therapist - ADHD- Eating Disorder recovery- she/her 🌻🏳️‍🌈🪴

[The Medicated Therapist 🌸 @harmonycarmony]

I am STRONG advocate for a Developmental Trauma Disorder Diagnosis in the DSM to avoid all of the mis-diagnoses that are happening to children with complex trauma.

A proper dx would provide treatment without the huge risk of harm for those with a trauma background.

[AntionetteTheGirlNextDoor @DrToniSaidit]

Therapists and Social Workers, do y’all ever get tired of talking? Like you’ve talked so much that it feels physically and mentally taxing to talk and you don’t want to say peep out of your mouth for at least 3 days at a time?

[The Medicated Therapist 🌸 @harmonycarmony]

I received an Autism diagnosis today and I am celebrating!

Grateful for the privilege of getting an assessment and grateful for hope and a path forward! No more gaslighting from providers and I can find a validating outpatient team! Here’s to (hopefully) coming out of burnout!

[The Caffeinated Therapist 🐝 @bellabee13]

@DrDoyleSays I don’t know why I’m even surprised anymore, given we have an entire thread compiled of concerning content of his at this point. 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[Michael Fulwiler @MichaelFulwiler]

Shout out to all the therapists who showed up and held space for their clients this week.

[The Medicated Therapist 🌸 @harmonycarmony]

I need a Pixar movie about Otters because they’re so freaking cute.

[TheCrankyTherapist @JessSprengleLPC]

I really wish psychoanalysts on here would stop making broad, deeply harmful statements about folks with borderline personality disorder.

[The Medicated Therapist 🌸 @harmonycarmony]

@teachechick @Autistic_at_40 I am struggling with burnout and skill regression lately and it is frustrating and kind of terrifying to be honest. I don’t feel like myself anymore and I’m finding it hard to function in my roles.

[AutisticLemon @teachechick]

@Autistic_at_40 This can lead to Autistic Burnout. My experience is a high frequency of catatonic episodes often caused by small things. It is like I am an elastic band that has been being stretched all my life and now I have snapped. However, I can’t seem to be put in a bin.

[Autistic_at_40_Podcast @Autistic_at_40]

I keep thinking there should be a specific name for the type of trauma that is being disabled, and seriously struggling for so long, but never having the information that you’re disabled or the nature of your disability. Is it called anything specific?

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

3. Reparent yourself: the best way to do this is through soothing self talk. You might be saying "I'm such an idiot" "I'm worthless" on a regular basis. Practice saying things like: "I am safe" "I can do hard things" "I can trust myself"

[Erin Stevens same handle elsewhere @aclientfirst]

"Therapists who do not understand Autistic experience will often employ behavioural strategies and infer thought patterns that are overtly incorrect."
@emgntdivergence

https://t.co/hP12y7TDUI

[The Medicated Therapist 🌸 @harmonycarmony]

Despite posting this on my socials, my parents still decided to post homophobic content this week. It’s hard to imagine my parents would rather be be dead than gay, but here we are.

[Autistic_at_40_Podcast @Autistic_at_40]

People who find out they’re autistic in adulthood were not OK before this point. I am yet to speak to a late identified autistic person - whether or not they were ever able to mask at any level - who was OK. Very far from it. Imagine being disabled and it not being recognised 😶

[Michael Fulwiler @MichaelFulwiler]

This is concerning

[Michael Fulwiler @MichaelFulwiler]

“Evidence-based therapy”

The evidence:

[Marina Harris, PhD, HSP-P, CMPC @DrMarinaHarris]

Are you a helping professional who knows how important it is to label feelings? Have you, like me, been dissatisfied with the feeling wheels out there?

Look no further 🤩

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[The Medicated Therapist 🌸 @harmonycarmony]

I feel like I never have energy to meet up with friends or family anymore, it all takes too many spoons 🥺😅

[The Medicated Therapist 🌸 @harmonycarmony]

Literally zero points. I’ve done everything on this list 😩 is 30 the new “retro” age? 😂

[Kim @CastellKim]

Ok 1 point for anything you have NEVER done.

[The Medicated Therapist 🌸 @harmonycarmony]

@kneadtotalk Trapped at sea in the middle of the DEEP OCEAN WITH STRANGERS. It sounds like an anxiety attack waiting to happen.