Rant: Drinking, Anger, and Therapy Bullshit

I just saw something that pissed me off so I wanted to quickly rant about it.
I saw twitter posts saying “If you get angry when you’re drinking, you’ve got anger issues and you need to go see a therapist about it.”

And this irritated me for two reasons.

1: I’m someone who is very passionate about addressing the oppression and abuse within the mental health care system, and it just gets under my skin in general when people talk about therapy as if this is the one thing, the one job where it’s impossible for someone to be abusive and be a therapist. When quite plainly the opposite’s seen, especially for disabled patients.

The second reason it’s pissed me off is, why are we pathologizing someone for their reaction to a substance? To me that’s like saying if someone gets sleepy on weed their narcoleptic so they need to see a doctor, or if someone gets loud on tequila they’re autistic and don’t understand the social environment.
And frankly even if this person was talking about a specific event or situation. 1. They decided to paint with a broad brush because those are the types of responses that get viral clicks so they should be held to the things that they’re pushing with those broad statements. 2. This is still factually and practically not meaningful to say and in fact feels more like shit that was pulled out of someone’s ass based on what privileged people on twitter told them therapy was.

It is plainly a blatant misunderstanding of what even a good therapist could fucking do. The reality is someone could have anger issues, do all of the work they need to do so that way when they’re in their present mind they are not being controlled by those anger issues, but when they’re on a fucking substance that presence of mind it is not a part of the equation anymore.

And it is this point I want to emphasize they don’t wanna hear jack shit about accountability for their behavior whilst drunk or about their decision to drink alcohol in the first place. Both are very meaningful points to talk about in a different conversation that the original post seems to have no fucking interest in.
Because again all this person is saying is “If you’re angry on alcohol there’s something wrong with you, go to the fixer upper person.”

And what I’m trying to say is that ignorant as fuck in all dimensions of the issue.