I cannot overstate how valuable this comment is to me, so thank you.

I’m mainly in therapy because I want to manage my depressive episodes so that I no longer experience suicidal ideation. The reason why I think bringing up politics is relevant is essentially because sometimes I’ll “think up a storm” over a few weeks (usually challenging thoughts/ideas I don’t have good answers to, and often negative) and then shut down (i.e. my mood just hits an “off switch” and I need to go “nothing matters” for two weeks). Often what I’m ruminating on is capitalism or patriarchy or smth like that, though recently epistemology has been featuring more prominently.

In that sense, it’s relevant to my own neuroses and dealing with them but not necessarily the most important thing to bring up either bc I can find ways to talk about em while avoiding politics. I just find talking around subjects difficult and would rather be frank.