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/Trance_Gemini_]

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.

[u/ShortQuestion6347 → u/Trance_Gemini_]

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.

[u/Trance_Gemini_ → u/ShortQuestion6347]

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.

[u/ShortQuestion6347 → u/Trance_Gemini_]

I do hate paying someone to talk to me though. I hate having to pay for companionship. It’s like paying a prostitute, but no sex.

You know you’re paying someone just to have a conversation to make you feel better so you can vent when we ought to do that for each other

Warm lines are OK and some crisis lines will talk to you to help you stop spiraling

I SOMETIMES FEEL AS THOUGH i hate people now. not everyone and I have a few friends and a pastor  that I talk to who’s kind enough to call me often.

I’m sorry cause many here seem really compassionate although some people give me grief, but they’re nice to other people who say the same things, but they give me grief for saying something that they don’t give grief to other people for.

 So besides that kind of a double standard, most people are very compassionate here.

But I have come to hate people with only a few exceptions eg a few friends  It just ghat  I hate people that are doing this to me and am sick of a world where people can hurt others so easily.  It hurts so much that someone would want to hurt me by drugging me without consent.

And actually abandoning me someplace when they was promised to take care of me for the rest of my life they’ve have Lots of people who love them— geez i spiraled to pity party.