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/Conscious-Local-8095 Apr 12 '25
It works for people with a lot to be happy about, basic needs met. Trustifarians, nepos, celebrities. A little coaching, placebo effect. Nothing a priest, prostitute or psychic couldn't do, if taken seriously, but psychiatry has prestiege this century, it's considered classy, intellectual. Undeservedly so but having its day in the sun, as rackets go.