I think therapy doesn't fucking work.

[Jamesun]

Well, after a few months of initial therapy, I still feel the same as always, maybe I don't do enough, I think I'm useless. Maybe I'm just a piece of shit incapable of changing, it overwhelms me to think about it and I think that in the end my destiny is just to kill myself, I think I'm a good-for-nothing, just useless, I think that if I were a little intelligent my life would be better, no matter how hard I try, nothing changes, I'm still the same piece of shit, with the same problems as always, if only I was smart enough to not be the useless person that I am, I hate all the shit about mathematics it's horrible I just want to understand it.
I think everyone advances except me, I wish I wasn't me and maybe I didn't have this shitty mind and body I live in. Maybe if I were someone else I wouldn't be so suicidal.I think I only have to kill myself and I only think that there is no salvation for me.

 

[Nikitatos]

99% of therapists suck. Really the only benefit is just venting and/or pills.

 

[DoubleUp8]

It would work ok if the patient was being paid an equal amount as the therapist by the health insurance. Or in other words the therapist was splitting whatever amount he/she is conning out of the insurance company. The way it is now the therapist is being paid so he/she benefits and the patient does not unless and except for the pills if they're getting good pills

 

[Jamesun]

99% of therapists suck. Really the only benefit is just venting and/or pills.

I was on fluoxetine and methylphenidate for a while but they were stopped when they took away my health insurance.

 

[Otaku]

There are a lot of people that won't benefit from therapy.( Including me)
But I understand, that people that need to talk about some things to get better, it can be necessary to at least talk to someone.
So it's a bit overrated at least. But for those that really don't have anyone, or it can be such a sensitive subject, that's where they often come in if people are willing to pay them.

 

[sancta-simplicitas]

Well, after a few months of initial therapy, I still feel the same as always, maybe I don't do enough, I think I'm useless. Maybe I'm just a piece of shit incapable of changing, it overwhelms me to think about it and I think that in the end my destiny is just to kill myself, I think I'm a good-for-nothing, just useless, I think that if I were a little intelligent my life would be better, no matter how hard I try, nothing changes, I'm still the same piece of shit, with the same problems as always, if only I was smart enough to not be the useless person that I am, I hate all the shit about mathematics it's horrible I just want to understand it.
I think everyone advances except me, I wish I wasn't me and maybe I didn't have this shitty mind and body I live in. Maybe if I were someone else I wouldn't be so suicidal.I think I only have to kill myself and I only think that there is no salvation for me.

May I ask which type of therapy you've been in?

 

[Praestat_Mori]

Well, it's not that therapy can fix all issues. If you don't know what causes your MH issues it's the job of the therapist to explore that and find the reasons for your MH problems and behavior. Then the therapist must develop a therapy based on that with the aim to eliminate those triggers and giving you tools and support how to cope with it if it cannot be eliminated.

Not all MH problems can be solved with therapy. It's trial and error.

I wish you all the best and I hope find a way to get better. Good luck :-)

 

[bookgirl]

Therapy is a waste of time

 

[Darkover]

I hate all the shit about mathematics it's horrible I just want to understand it.

radius R
diameter d = 2 * r
circumference = pi * diameter
area of a disk = pi * r^2
surface area 4* pi * r^2
enclosed volume V = 4/3 * r^3 *pi
volume formula for the sphere= (4/3)*pi*r^3



the symbols
r=radius
pi=3.14159
^=power

The exponent of a number says how many times to use the number in a multiplication.
8 to the Power 2
In 8^2 the "2" says to use 8 twice in a multiplication,
so 8^2 = 8 × 8 = 64
In words: 8^2 could be called "8 to the power 2"
5^3 = 5 × 5 × 5 = 125
2^4 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 = 16

 

[Forveleth]

I think therapy is great IF you find a good therapist. Unfortunately, finding a good therapist is like dating. To find "the one" is usually takes 6+ tries of wasting your time and money with utter bullshit. I went to a couple therapists, starting off each new one by telling them exactly why I left the last one and what I wanted to work on with them. They all ended up the same.

I have heard people say it's great if you can find a good therapist but I don't have the patience to try anymore.

 

[ijustwishtodie]

I believe that therapy doesn't work in all cases. I believe that therapy only really works for those whose issues aren't that bad to begin with. Therapy is ineffective for everybody else. The best therapy can do is give an expensive venting space but this place is significantly better for venting as, on here, it's free and you don't have to walk on eggshells when talking about being suicidal. Therapy is absolutely useless for me because my desires to die aren't irrational at all. I want to be dead because life itself simply isn't good enough for me and I really don't have the fucking energy to get gaslighted by life worshipping normies claiming otherwise

 

[Jamesun]

May I ask which type of therapy you've been in?

I don't remember it well but I think it was behavioral.

 

[totheendofinfinity]

It used to help for me. Then I think at some point I went past the point of no return.

 

[Mircea]

If anyone thinks therapy can help them, I definitely don't discourage trying it. But I can say that for me in my childhood it never did anything. I separately saw a psychologist I was recommended to by a family friend a few years back, he prescribed some Serlift which actually helped a lot and cured at least the worst of my depression. No therapist can change the reasons why we feel the way we do though, thus they can't do much in my book... if anything politicians no longer making peoples lives a hell or for people who work their bosses and so on could do something, and they always won't except making it worse.

 

[dragonofenvy]

It's never helped me. It was just a waste of money and time. It made me feel shitty that despite seeing a therapist for years I still wasn't getting any better. The psychiatrist wouldn't listen and insisted I keep taking medication even then I kept insisting that my problem wasn't a chemical imbalance in my brain like they kept saying, but rather an environmental one because life sucked. But no, the pills will fix the fact that your life sucks apparently. It can be nice to be able to talk to someone about stuff though, but it's damn expensive to do so. I'd rather just distract myself all day.

 

[DefinitelyReady]

I think therapy is great IF you find a good therapist. Unfortunately, finding a good therapist is like dating. To find "the one" is usually takes 6+ tries of wasting your time and money with utter bullshit. I went to a couple therapists, starting off each new one by telling them exactly why I left the last one and what I wanted to work on with them. They all ended up the same.

I have heard people say it's great if you can find a good therapist but I don't have the patience to try anymore.

Why is it not in your damn "chart"? Shouldn't have to completely re-explain EVERY damn thing about your life. What are their notes for? It's ridiculous. Unless they have a Ph.D they're no more qualified than we are. Sick of being a "good sport." It's our time and energy too, and they get paid whether we benefit or not. It's so effed.