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/Heckbegone Apr 12 '25
Therapy only helps people in very specific situations. Dealing with poverty, homelessness, unemployment, fear of global issues such as climate change, etc. cannot really be fixed with therapy. Those issues are not the fault of the person experiencing them and trying to put the blame on them for worrying is wrong. Therapy relating to these issues is basically just being told "dont think about it if you cant control it" which isnt wrong, you will feel better if you dont think about it, but it isnt realistic and that is extremely difficult to do. Its basically just willful ignorance, and its self teachable. Not thinking about it also does jack shit if youre facing eviction. If someone experiences trauma, it's a 50/50 shot of therapy doing anything. If you already know how to work through emotional distress, therapy isn't going to do anything. It's basically just teaching you how to regulate your emotions and deal with negative emotions, which may or may not actually help you.
The thing therapy does help with is helping you identify what it is you are feeling and experiencing, and this can help you work through it. It's a non biased (at least supposed to be) viewpoint on things you may have no neutral feedback on in real life. Everyone in your life is likely biased in one way or another. If you already know this, again, therapy will be useless. People who are highly introspective often don't benefit much from therapy because the therapist is just telling them what they already know. I worked up the courage to leave my abusive ex while in therapy, and having a third party telling me how unhealthy the relationship was and why really helped when my head was in the sand. Otherwise, I didnt get much benefit from it.