I do think there’s problems with therapy and pushing medication (especially if the shrink wants you to troon out), but this is lunacy brought on by your obsessive hatred of the Y chromosome.
I think she does have a point about misogyny, but I feel like that's not the most concerning part of this comic.
What kind of "family therapist" can put someone on medication? Who puts someone on medication
against their will? And look what she said she was talking about; unrequited love, limerences, and unexpressed affections for a man she claimed to be obsessed with. I had to look up what "limerence" meant, and it's essentially love-based OCD; intrusive thoughts and obsession towards the object of your affection.
This is one side of a two-sided story. Therapists can't prescribe medication, first of all, only psychiatrists can. Secondly, you can't be forced onto medication unless you're deemed an immediate risk to yourself or others, and if you ARE an immediate risk your therapist is a mandatory reporter who has to get you stronger help. If the therapist is "threatening" medication and possibly a psychiatric hold (as evidenced by the illustration,) then there's a whole story we're not actually getting.
The story I'm getting is that Prolactin was more affected by her parent's divorce than she thought, which manifested into obsession with some man, probably reflecting whatever issue parents had. It was fucking up her life (as she admits she couldn't sleep and was isolating herself, despite having good grades,) and she was getting worse. She says she hadn't committed a crime, but what if she was getting close to doing it? What if she was stalking that man, or heading down a road that she couldn't recognize as dangerous that her therapist could? Then the therapist, who's either a psychiatrist or just a mandatory reporter, says this is concerning and "threatens" Prolactin with a psychiatric hold or medication, so Prolactin lies and never goes back, deciding the therapist is "in on it" and is "one of them," so to speak. The therapist is a "colonizer" who's "upholding the patriarchy," when really she's just a person who's known Prolactin for 15 years and is concerned for her wellbeing.
I get that therapy isn't perfect and doctors have over-prescribed medication to make people more compliant, but we can't be so sure that's actually what's happening. Captain Prolactin is an unreliable narrator, and I feel like her politics is masking the truth.
