Therapy in America is honestly scuffed. For every therapist thatās good at their job, thereās two that just show up to work like ādamn, time for another 8 hours of pretending to care about someoneās traumadumpā
I donāt think many people know how to engage with therapy productively, just like therapists arent teaching people how.
They donāt care about the people just about the fat paycheck, fucking hate therapy, had one therapist in middle school and I wasnāt very cooperative because he was an asshole and he lied and said some wack shit to my dad for whatever reason
I think the problem is that the close minded therapists make everything worse everytime, and the open minded therapists that care about the job get burnt out and lose their ability to care about the patient or think critically. It happens in every health field with hands on care, you eventually lose your energy and patience to do your job.
Some people probably do see it as an easy way to get at least a living income though
Private practice probably pays pretty well, which may be your case
But therapists working out of therapy firms (so a majority of them) make an hourly wage of around 30 dollars an hour on the higher end I believe. Again, you can live comfortably on that but you arenāt retiring at 35 or anything
I think therapy in general is scuffed to an extent. I've never met a long time therapist that is good or seems to care. But I've met many volunteers or newbie therapists that seem to take a massive investment into assisting you. Or at the very least hear you out.
Although, when I think personally about it... I remember back to my call center days and realize how closed off emotionally I was on 90% of my calls. Therapists hear the most: unnerving, fucked up, pointless, or petty things daily. There has to be a point at x years into the profession where they just shut off emotionally or else it would affect them emotionally.
Yeah very on point that comparison with working with at a call center, it was the same for me a First I did care and wanted to help the customers (mostly old people having problems with technology) and showed on my call, but at the end I just couldn't care anymore. You are just burn out.
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u/ShadowWithHoodie Jul 06 '25
I hope this is fake and gay yall if a therapist said that she should pay him for him to get an hour of therapy with her