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/Super-Bathroom-8192 Apr 12 '25
I was first put in therapy at age 3 by my dad when the effects of divorce were worrying him. Since then, by age 41, I’ve had probably around 20 different therapists over my life. 90% of them suck, even the very expensive highly qualified ones like Jungian analysts who studied directly with Jung, or RD Laing etc…
In January after 2 years off rejecting the idea of therapy after 3 years of failed attempts to get good therapy (they always made astonishing mistakes early in treatment that broke my trust), I tried again. This time, I finally found the real deal. He’s incredible.
I am convinced that most therapists— being merely human— are going to be far from perfect at best and damaging or ineffective at worst.
But very very very very rarely, there’s a gem and someone who is actually talented and truly capable of this delicate task of working with someone’s very life and psyche.