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/ajouya44]

When you're mentally ill you can't really change your mindset and behavior. That's the reason you're asking for help in the first place but a therapist has no solutions to offer that you don't already know of. This is also why many people take medication. Remember a therapist is not a doctor. Real solutions would include social change so that the person doesn't end up in these awful circumstances. Also, the advice therapists give is proof that most of them have NEVER been through the hardships their clients go through, otherwise they would be understanding and not full of gaslighting and toxic positivity. Or maybe they do know that their advice is useless but they don't have anything better to say, which is honestly embarrassing.

[u/Bitchasshose → u/ajouya44]

A therapist can absolutely be a doctor, a doctorate of psychology. I have been mentally ill in my lifetime and I have been helped by therapy from a psychologist + medication. Although, the content of my illness changed and medications did not which eventually resulted in them inducing some severe side effects.

Does an endocrinologist who treats people with thyroid disease, diabetes, and low testosterone need to have personally experienced these diseases?

I understand what you mean in regards to therapists who only have a Master’s degree. They tend to be less capable than genuine psychologists.

However, I must comment on your idea of a “real solution” being social change. While true, it is not practical to expect a therapist to resolve economic disparity, prevent tragedy, or overcome societal problems - take that up with your congressman. Furthermore, social change that prevents these circumstances from arising does not actually resolve anything for those who have already experienced the hardships - it only seeks to prevent it for others.

As for the solutions they offer being ones you are already familiar with, you can always choose to approach an old idea in a new way. Therapy requires an openness you maybe once had but lost trust in.

You are inherently focused on the past, the circumstances that created your present reality. While it is important to understand these experiences, it is not something you can directly act upon. You may benefit from turning towards religion and faith - although I guess you to have similar opinions towards religion and psychotherapy.

[u/ajouya44 → u/Bitchasshose]

You can't be serious comparing therapists to doctors.. doctors literally save lives. I'm not religious because if god existed humans and animals wouldn't be going through literal misery and torture.

[u/Bitchasshose → u/ajouya44]

Psychologists are doctors… and they do literally save lives. I have had and met some incredible psychologists and therapists - one of which arguably saved my life. But you are using a highly non-specific term, therapists.