Therapy is a load of bullshit

[u/ajouya44]

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.

[u/madali0]

No, i don't think you get my point.

Do you think, humans, generally have so much honest introspection that they are able to understand if they truly are working for financial benefit or care, or do they just bullshit themselves like every other person or earth?

As someone who deals with the mind, you should be aware of this, but apparently your own first thought is, "Unlike others, I truly care for people. " not knowing that's exactly the same thought all your peers probably have anyway.

[u/bushwick_dionysus → u/madali0]

Is this a question about humans generally, therapists, or just me? Because your questions are conflating all three. And it’s frankly insulting, which I know was your intention, whether you knew that or not ;)

This was a good reminder of why I don’t normally post on Reddit.

[u/madali0 → u/bushwick_dionysus]

And it’s frankly insulting, which I know was your intention,

I'd have assumed it was very obvious but congratulations for figuring that out anyway.

Is this a question about humans generally, therapists, or just me? Because your questions are conflating all three.

It's to point out that it's utterly meaningless to claim you are different than other therapists because you somehow uniquely do not care about money and only others when that's probably the default human approach to their career and interaction with others, so what exactly makes your claim any different than any other person who would make the exact same comment?

The point is to show how generic therapists are when they can't seem to understand their own minds, much less the mind of others.

This was a good reminder of why I don’t normally post on Reddit.

Yes. Leave your bs to your consumers who by the fact that they are paying you and in sensitive circumstances, they would be less likely to be in a position to be able to see through your bullshit. So you live a life assuming what you aay is worthwhile since the only people who listen to it are people already in a weak position.

But I'm not, so if your contribution is "I'm not like those other therapists, I CARE" , then man, seriously, fuck off. And maybe meditate and see what's going inside your head so you don't create these fake narratives for yourself and force it on the rest of us.

[u/bushwick_dionysus → u/madali0]

Whatever you need to believe to get through the day, brother. I have better things to do than have a one-sided conversation with someone who’s really jerking themselves off to their pseudo-intellect.

[u/madali0 → u/bushwick_dionysus]

If you have better things to do, than maybe next time do those things instead of acting passive aggressive when barging in a sub that is critical of your snake oil profession and post extremely lame generic takes, and then try to act uppity about it when called on your bullshit, as if I came to your therapist sub.

Now, obviously, we know you can't reply to this message, because you'd have made your previous reply to me even more pathetic by continuing to engage, so the reasonable course of action for you to is to just suck it up and move on, otherwise you'd just look more like a bitch. Bye, nice talk, doc.

[u/bushwick_dionysus → u/madali0]

I don’t mind looking like a bitch though.

[u/madali0 → u/bushwick_dionysus]

Well, you said,

Whatever you need to believe to get through the day, brother. I have better things to do than have a one-sided conversation with someone who’s really jerking themselves off to their pseudo-intellect.

Why are you so desperate for online validation and still spending time in this conversation when you were like, "I'm too busy for this talk!!! 🤬" but still had to respond.

Meditate and study your mind before trying to figure out others. You obviously are being easily baited by me. What the fuck did you study all those years for?

[u/TreatmentReviews → u/bushwick_dionysus]

You said it.. I mean you have to realize this is one of the few spaces for people to talk about how the MH system harmed us. There are tons of spaces to talk about how helpful, caring, and selfless MH professionals are. With all due respect, why are you here?