I hear people say stuff like this and I wonder: is your experience that therapy is that effective?
Sometimes people seem to be thinking, "If I can afford the therapy, I'll get my head fixed", and I always thought therapy was a bit more hit-and-miss than that.
It seems unlikely you can buy your way out of mental illness.
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If you can afford therapy go for it. CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) is a very outcomes based approach with actual scientific study behind it. Go for it if you can! 😁
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im going to be frank: i hate therapy and i hate therapists. i think they are leeches that maybe help a small minority of people, but actively harms the rest.
i went to a therapist one time for trans related issues (surgeries require signage from a therapist to get covered by insurance). they seemed supportive and gave me my letters and so on. so i thought, hey, maybe they can help me repair my relationship with my parents and help them accept me being trans?
WRONG.
very fucking wrong.
they took my parents side, misgendered and deadnamed me the entire time, and charged me 200 dollars at the end of it.
i went to other therapists, too. they are the equivalent of lazy teachers. they give you a bunch of paperwork on CBT or mindfulness or some shit that I could have found on fucking wikipedia and then charge 100-200 dollars at the end of each session. absolute fucking useless garbage. it might work for people that have zero friends, or friends that are clueless and have no idea how to be empathetic.
i have a great disdain for the profession. 99% snakeoil. now psychiatrists, they are bros. they offer solutions that i cant google and actually have a degree based in science and help you find a med based on the best available research. but even then, i think a general prac is better because theyre cheaper and therefore encounter more patients, giving them more experience.
source: severe ptsd and depression and the therapists only made it worse
also: i think therapists are snakeoil because they act like they can help with so many things. children, marital issues, trans issues, issues with sex, ptsd, anxiety.... just shut the fuck up you assholes. all you do is ask people to relive traumatic experiences and do NOTHING for them
no, i actually hate them and in an ideal world they wouldnt exist. i think theyre so useless youd have a better chance of getting good therapy from a bartender
I managed to find a therapist who is a queer kink and poly friendly socialist.
do they advertise stuff like that or do you just have to luck out?
The entire therapy practice is centered on queer people, and most of the therapists are some flavor of trans/nb/genderqueer. They advertise as sex, kink and poly positive, the socialist thing was a bonus. It also helps to live in one of the biggest metros in the world.
Imagine the highlight of your Friday night being logging into a fringe leftist website based off an obscure podcast to deliver a sick burn about what messaging app some rando uses.
