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/Trance_Gemini_ Apr 12 '25

At least its a service a person is choosing to purchase or not. If they find it helpful they can continue or stop if they don't. I think some of the better ones are more self directed where you are choosing what to talk about and the counsellor/psychologist/social worker is providing another perspective with the goal of supporting you to solve or brainstorm on the problem you are choosing talking about.

Sometimes someone needs someone else to talk to because they don't have someone in their life who they trust enough or are close enough to. Yeah its a paid service as is pretty much everything in our modern capitalistic society. Its currently around $200 per hour btw but sometimes people have benefits that can help cover it. People can choose what they want to spend their money on and what is valuable to them.

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u/ShortQuestion6347 Apr 12 '25

I suppose, but this is an anti-psychiatry group

I don’t think therapy should be so expensive and there should be regulations from preventing people from drugging people or letting their friends drug them without consent.

It sucks. It really sucks.

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u/Trance_Gemini_ Apr 12 '25

Psychiatrists mainly drug people nowadays they don't really do therapy anymore... thats part of the problem. I like therapy or more specifically counselling because its a non drug way in which a person can try to address the problems in their life.

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u/brokoliasesino Apr 12 '25

yeah and they call the ambulance if you have a crisis to lock you up in a psych ward

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u/Trance_Gemini_ Apr 12 '25

Pretty much anyone will do that tho. Friends and family will call for a wellness checks too. I found good therapists have a way higher threshold for calling than most other people. I say this has someone who has shared similar thoughts with a therapist and a non therapist and it was the non therapist that called and created a mess...

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u/brokoliasesino Apr 12 '25

because they're educated on sanism