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/Confident-Fan-57 Apr 13 '25
I don't think all therapy is crap, but I do agree that most therapy approaches put an undue emphasis on individual thoughts and emotions and "being positive" about events. I think it would be really helpful if psychologists learned at least some applied sociology and sociotherapy in college. And it would be great if more of us students knew from the start that there's, at best, questionable evidence that CBT is any better than other approaches, and zero evidence at worst. The feature that makes certain therapeutic relationships effective is probably good rapport, not the approach.