Discussion [Poll] Are you receiving therapy/ professional MH care?

[TheSeeker]

Therapy is fucking worthless and overpriced. No Doc...I don't want to watch a Netflix series on positive thinking...

 

[melonrazor]

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

 

[Placo]

At the moment only psychotropic drugs, including esketamine.

 

[lovebutterflies]

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

 

[thenamingofcats]

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]

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 .

 

[사람이 없어]

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.