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Are you receiving therapy/professional mental health care & if not, why not?

  • Yes - Therapy only

    Votes: 197 10.3%
  • Yes - Medication only

    Votes: 235 12.3%
  • Yes - Therapy and medication

    Votes: 619 32.5%
  • No - Not interested in seeking treatment

    Votes: 222 11.6%
  • No - Interested but don’t know where to start

    Votes: 94 4.9%
  • No - Scared of being hospitalized or that it won’t work

    Votes: 192 10.1%
  • No - tried therapy but it didn’t help

    Votes: 368 19.3%
  • No - tried medication but it didn't help

    Votes: 210 11.0%
  • No - Can’t afford therapy but use medication

    Votes: 52 2.7%
  • No - Can’t afford any treatment

    Votes: 167 8.8%

  • Total voters
    1,906
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TheSeeker

Member
Mar 1, 2025
18
Therapy is fucking worthless and overpriced. No Doc...I don't want to watch a Netflix series on positive thinking...
 
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melonrazor

Member
Feb 4, 2024
10
yes. i'm really trying my best. i hope whoever finds my body will find this message and know that i actually tried my hardest to stay alive
 
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Placo

Placo

Life and Death
Feb 14, 2024
885
At the moment only psychotropic drugs, including esketamine.
 
lovebutterflies

lovebutterflies

on the verge of death
Sep 9, 2023
3
have tried everything and nothing seems to work,
therapy seems to actually make it worse at this point
and its sad since i really did want to get better
 
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thenamingofcats

annihilation anxiety
Apr 19, 2024
482
I was in therapy for 2 decades and now am permanently done. I've seen everything and will say that if the worst experience you've had with a therapist is that it didn't work, consider yourself lucky. Therapy provides a constant supply of vulnerable people, what could go wrong? 20 years ago therapists didn't have any prestige or authority in society but that's changed now resulting in the field being flooded with dark triad types. I've heard and personally experienced boundary violations that you wouldn't believe and there's virtually no regulation short of a therapist having sex with a client, in which case they may get a slap on the wrist. The same group that grants licenses is also responsible for reviewing complaints, it's like the police handling complains about police violence. For the few that do get their license taken away they become life coaches and can get a supply of victims that way.

The other problem is there's no good way to measure how much therapy actually works since it's highly subjective. It's easier to measure behavioral changes but does that mean you're happier or your quality of life is better? What about 10 or 20 years from now? We know that when people spend large amounts of money on things they self report being happy with the decision, it's too painful to feel otherwise. I always think of what Freud said about therapy turning hysterical misery into common unhappiness. Therapy's a business and the original concept of it won't sell too many sessions so they promise happiness and feeling better which I think is dishonest.
 
steveholt

steveholt

ARLDSTE
Feb 15, 2025
91
I find it difficult with mental health therapists ..as the people ive only ever found helpfull arw thise that have been through some stuff.. not to some uni educated rich kid with a degree thats never been tbrough certain issues.. nuat because you read a book does not mean you have any amount of knowledge on what people are axtyally dealing with .. id rather talk on here .. i place with people of knowledge and on point info..

I trainned to be a recovery coach and have the kniwledge, i did it for me with a possible hope of continuing it as a job so in my mind..its all up there.
but i have whats left of... my mind, body and .....my past
and all are broken. beyond repair

.. but as i guess many here, we are great at giving support and help to those in need ... who we hope to help and support.. And we sbould always do

Umfortunatly we suck at taking our own advice..
My biggest addiction will always be my past .
 
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사람이 없어

사람이 없어

!!!!好事发生!!!!
Oct 11, 2020
188
Had my fourth therapy session today and it actually went well as we're just going through symptoms I struggle with rn to see if I can get my diagnosis changed or not, and so far it seems I am not exactly fitting my diagnosis (imo) as I seem to not really relate to a lot of things. She did say we have 2-3 more sessions to go with this, though, so it'll be a while before I can hopefully get some more clarification about wtf it is I am dealing with, which imo is ADHD and Autism,but ppl are apparently not seeing the autism part (likely because I mask so much idk), but often get told I do seem very ADHD which is ironic as that's the diagnosis I feel is maybe potentially wrong, lol. Granted, I do use a lot of things to cope and make it less severe, so maybe when I cannot use those tools it shows up more in ways I cannot see myself. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Edit: Also spoke about spending half the day watching people kill themselves, and what I saw in detail and the process, and my own thoughts related to suicide right now. She didn't seem fazed and she helped me feel a bit better about it, as I still felt quite unwell in the morning the next day after watching all of them the previous day.

Glad I finally had a good session, though, after my previous ones feeling like I only got ignored and hurt and gaslit.
 
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SchizoGymnast

SchizoGymnast

Student
May 28, 2024
109
I'm doing three different psychiatric drugs, I have a general therapist and a therapist who specializes in my developmental disability, and I'm working on getting an occupational therapist. I also have a slew of specialists to help me deal with the side effects of the psych meds I'm taking. I see cardiology every now and then for LQTS, I have a dietician for the elevated blood sugar, etc.

It's a lot of fuckin work.
 
hhtroc

hhtroc

Student
Mar 22, 2025
110
Therapy for 12 years now, several meds, nothing helped rly, ssri do help a bit but make me accept a standard of living i dont rationally want. I have a feeling that my last ssri must be wrong packaging and that's why i have become so much worse but it feels like being awake, I am lowkey scared of getting better and staying alive abd putting up with all the pain. I feel like if i had no meds i would have died 11 years ago and as if i have overstayed my welcome when the world has made it clear i should not be here anymore.
 
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BlissfulVoid

Member
Feb 20, 2023
14
I've tried a lot of medication and various forms of therapy, but none have been effective.
The wish to go out on my own terms has existed inside me since childhood, and the lack of care for the world and its trappings only grew over the years. There is the odd thing every now and then that causes temporary pause to these feelings, but alas, temporary things do not last.
 
allmylife

allmylife

Trying to find my way...
Mar 11, 2025
8
Both, but no effect whatsoever. I continue trying, but feel like I have problems connecting with therapists. Tried so many, but never gets to the real talk and always leave with the feeling of emptiness.
 
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uta

Member
Feb 21, 2025
14
I've been in therapy a while. Therapist acknowledges there's nothing in particular to be done for me but I go anyhow. I'm on meds (useless), Spravato, and possibly ECT soon. Not sure if the latter two are/will be very helpful, but getting high twice a month is nice either way. My medication provider has acknowledged the permanent nature of my suicidal desire and would likely be in favor of my option to choose were such a thing not illegal and taboo.
 
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Silently Dying

Member
Jan 27, 2025
84
I'm in the US but live in a state that is much like a third world country. There are few therapists, doctors, dentists or any other kind of healthcare. It's a pathetic place to live or die.
 
steveholt

steveholt

ARLDSTE
Feb 15, 2025
91
I see my shrink once a week... and also get therapy from my piano teacher we meet for a brew and stuff and also chat during my lesson see my docs once a week and meet my friend for coffee last the extent of my miserable shitty boring life .. the only joy i get is my paino lesson ...
 
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bubblecat

Member
Nov 11, 2024
9
No. Ever since covid and moving out of a major metro area, it's been difficult to access services with the insurance I have and with the state of my country I probably won't even have the insurance much longer.

Though my experience with mental health care in the past hasn't been fruitful, I'd be willing to give a try again because I haven't tried everything and after much reflection think there were issues with my approach to it that I wasn't aware of.
 
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snwcolt

ballz deep in ur mom
Apr 1, 2025
34
I go to therapy to make my mom happy. It's such a waste of time. I can predict every fucking thing he says. You know you're not really getting objective advice because there is nothing they will respond to with "Yeah you should kill yourself" it's a silly ass thing that I guess more normal type people benefit from because they're not dissecting every fucked up thought that crosses their brain on a regular basis like I am. Our thoughts just aren't all that complicated. It's all about what you want to have and who you want to fuck and/or kill. Imho
 

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