You said “Anti-depressants suck.” You didn’t say “many people, myself included, have had negative experiences with SSRIs.” You didn’t say “find a professional to help you with therapy.” You said “Do your shadow work.” I responded to what you said, not what you thought and didn’t communicate.

I responded terribly to SSRIs. That was the worst five months or so of my adult life. It was terrible. Bupropion, the antidepressant I take, is not an SSRI. There are multiple other categories of antidepressant, and they are all essential to different target audiences.

And CBT also isn’t universal. Most people with CPTSD need a deeper level of metaprogramming. A close friend of mine just got transferred from her psyche doing CBT to someone specializing in EMDR for CPTSD because CBT doesn’t work as well when truama is that pervasive. The body keeps the score and must be retrained along with the mind. I’m glad CBT works for you and so many others. It’s an amazing tool. So are antidepressants and other forms of therapy. None of them suck. All of them are very important. Seeing the value in a variety of treatment options isn’t “groupthink.” It’s sound science and good medicine.