[tw: CSA but only as a topic] Okay, I try really hard not to be a pedant about this (pedantry is pointless and usually kind of regressive) but it drives me nuts that people refer to the Satanic Panic as meaning "people were freaked out about Satan in the 80s" when the term Satanic Panic specifically refers to the daycare ritual abuse moral panic
And that's entirely because I was one of the kids who was traumatized by being interrogated, falsely testifying to being abused, and ruining a poor man's life (I've googled him and he never held down another job in his life)
But what drives me even more insane is I keep having to teach my therapists about this??
Like they're taught in school about how you can't interrogate toddlers that way but not the history behind why we know that
Like they're taught in school about how you can't interrogate toddlers that way but not the history behind why we know that
Anyway I just lost another therapist so onto the merry-go-round I go again
(She's leaving the practice, we only had 2 sessions)
Going to have to teach someone else about how this traumatized me and how my mom refuses to believe me about the fact that I lied about abuse because of the way i was questioned
Also, if you're unfamiliar with this, here's a good podcast episode about it
The "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s
The "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s
(Although relistening to this now and they are referring to the entire thing as Satanic Panic in this podcast so whatever)
Ooof, yeah, if they're specifically talking about the 80s...yeah, in context, 80s Satanic Panic is a very specific thing referring to exactly what you've said here. It wasn't until the very end of the 80s and in the 90s that it became a widespread general moral panic that encompassed a lot more.
But I very often also see the 80s Satanic Panic and the 90s greater moral panic that sort of grew out of it conflated and assumed to be the same thing.
crossthesky: It's more that every time I see a general discussion on social media or elsewhere online about it, people just don't even know the roots of the blow-up part that happened later was the daycare scare
Like I mean I'm talking ex-evangelical Facebook groups and #exvangelical xitter
I mean I guess I understand it since people just remember their parents being freaked about ~~Satan~~ and D&D and stuff
But why do no therpists know this
Why do I have to teach every single therpist I start with about t5his
I have found, personally, when it comes to I guess you could say less standard things - like for me, my family, for many years until my dad passed, functioned a lot like a cult so that's a big thing for me in mental health - that therapists seem lacking in expected knowledge but psychiatrists/psychologists know their shit.
Interesting
I was actually in a cult for 15 years, but except for like 2 therapists I've been with we never even got around to touching on that
Because I keep losing them for one reason or another before we've gotten very afr
far*
It took me a long time to find a good one, but I finally found a psychiatrist who specialized in working with former cult members, and explained my situation, and she helped me greatly. Until she moved to the other side of the country.
Yeah, each time I've had a really good one that lasted for a while they eventually left for other pastures