Yes, God, God. God don't never change.

Welcome to the Plodgas This is Douglas Wilson.

This is episode 321 of the Plodcast.

You are most welcome aboard. Thank you for coming. The topic today I want to talk about is therapeutic damage.

The reason I'm talking about this is because of a book I'm reading, but it's,

this is not a book review, but I do need to mention the book. It's by Abigail Shrier,

and she's the woman who wrote the book on the the area called

Irreversible damage on the the impact that the tranny stuff is having on kids

Irreversible damages hers, but she's got a new book out called

bad therapy. Bad therapy. And it's a marvelous book, really insightful book. So there's my book plug at the beginning. But the but going through the

book made me think of some things that I wanted to share with you all. We have certain

assumptions that we pick up from the world and the world picks them up from the psychiatric professions. Here's one of them and it's a commonplace and that is many

problems that adults have, emotional problems, psychological problems, difficulties in coping with this, that, and the other thing,

are the result of childhood trauma.

And the thing that you have to do is get the person to open up about that trauma, to talk about it, to ventilate.

Now, one of the things that we should do is, if we are thoughtful about these sorts of things we should ask questions like how do we know that how do we know that?

How do we know that?

Let's say that someone had a particular traumatic episode when they're a child, I think all of us can easily

imagine how someone could have coped with the trauma in a really unhelpful way, in a way that caused all sorts of emotional

dislocations downstream. We all can, we all can imagine that. But can we

imagine the person who had a real shock to the system saying, you know what, I don't want to talk about it. I want to think about something else.

And admire that as the best thing he could have done.

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