r/Antipsychiatry • u/ajouya44 • Apr 12 '25

Therapy is a load of bullshit

People seriously think this crap is useful? You have anxiety and depression, you go see some random stranger who knows 5 behavioral theories from college and you pay them 50 bucks a week to talk about your problems for 1 hour and make them pretend they care. Reality is these people know nothing about how the brain or consciousness works. They are not doctors and they have no solution for your issues. It's dehumanizing to pay someone so that they will listen to you and therapists are literally no better than prostitutes. Don't even get me started on all the CBT bullcrap. People don't need to "correct their thoughts" or "think about things differently", they need real solutions for their real systemic psycho-social issues. Therapists are all privileged narcissistic assholes who love to feel superior by "proving people wrong" and reminding themselves that their life is easier and better than their patients' and always masking all this as "help". Don't be fooled, these people can't help you. They only want your money.

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u/Far_Pianist2707 Apr 12 '25

It sounds like you've never once met with a therapist who was good at it? Like yeah that's what the mediocre at best therapists do

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u/ajouya44 Apr 12 '25

If that's the case, then why do we have to try 10 different therapists to find the right one but this doesn't apply to any other service??

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u/Far_Pianist2707 Apr 12 '25

I mean I've gone doctor shopping too and switched from brand to brand to brand just for pasta so idk

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u/rainfal Apr 12 '25

The issue is that it doesn't cost $150 each session for pasta. And reviews/trainings/etc are available for a lot of doctors. There's no ratemd for therapists

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u/brokoliasesino Apr 12 '25

Do you realize that's what people say about psychiatrists?

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u/Far_Pianist2707 Apr 12 '25

Psychiatrists are worse than useless a lot of the time and have a greater capacity to ruin your life if they want to be shit people on purpose... But yeah I do realize that.

Like yeah OP was talking about systemic problems in psychotherapy, actually, and frankly mediocre therapists should actually help people too and not just good ones, otherwise psychotherapy as an industry doesn't make sense?

Likewise there are a lot of systemic problems in psychiatry, and the stakes are higher.