I hate all therapists

[horrorofBeing]

It is seriously fucked up that there are no remotely accurate reviews online for psychotherapists or other mental health professionals. All the reviews are fake: 100%, 5 star, A+, whatever. It's like it would be cruel to give these people a realistic rating. Meanwhile my local hardware store, where some would say the stakes are not nearly as high, gets a more than accurate rating. 2 stars because the cashier is a dick. I know not to go there to get my keys made, but I still have no idea who is good at treating mental illness.

I know if a piece of entertainment is effective or not, but apparently it is inhumane for me to want an honest, forthright perspective on a mental health professional. What is this psychotic world I am trapped in? They are probably afraid that they will get inaccurate ratings from people they think are delusional. So get rid of the ratings system altogether. What stops them from being delusional themselves?

What really blows my mind is the fact that every therapist, nurse, psychologist, and psychiatrist I've ever had to interact with are the ones who should be censored. I remember being 9 years old and my dad told me that most people who go into the mental health profession only do so for selfish reasons. Sadly that stupid fucking piece of shit remains correct yet again.

I think the broad obsession with psychology has come full circle. Soon we will stop believing in it again. If it gets rid of the scammers, then good riddance. But how will we ever know either way?

 

[Zeir Anpin 729]

Hey look. It's the head psychologist of Western Carolina University's own Counseling and Psychological Services.


She's a plant working for the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors. They are a scam organization that steals government grants and uses them to buy extra cars and beachside vacation homes for themselves. This is a picture of them together. They are so happy together.

 

[trying ungracefully]

Maybe off topic but I went to a psychiatrist that was recommended from inpatient and she had so many bad reviews of messing people up (including me) but people are still going to her and sent to her from a hospital recommendation. It seems like reviews don't even matter in situations like that because we are the patients they are the doctor/therapist and people view them with more authority.

 

[anomalou]

I feel you OP. I've recently been reading up a lot about the anti-psychiatric movement of the 1960s and later, I can really reccommend that for you, because I agree with your point of it going full circle - in a way.
There is a huge potential for movements of criticism of psychology and psychiatric care.

 

[horrorofBeing]

I feel you OP. I've recently been reading up a lot about the anti-psychiatric movement of the 1960s and later, I can really reccommend that for you, because I agree with your point of it going full circle - in a way.
There is a huge potential for movements of criticism of psychology and psychiatric care.

I can appreciate some of R.D. Laing esp as a counterpart to the current obsession with medicalizing psychology. I lean existential when it comes to understanding mental health, but Laing and a lot of those 60s and 70s guys are just too extreme for me.

 

[anomalou]

a lot of those 60s and 70s guys are just too extreme for me.

Do you care to elaborate on that? I'd be interested to hear what you think is too extreme. Sorry if it's a bit of an uneducated question, I am only just starting to read up on that movement.

 

[prettysurethistime]

I agree but I'm not anti-psychiatry. Some people really do have psychiatric disorders. It's just increasingly known physical health issues, often hard to see or diagnose, are the primary cause of those issues, not someone's personality inherently. Psychiatry can only be that useful in the presence of severe psychosis or as very much a secondary set of tools to physical and social care. I stopped smoking, started cleaning my teeth properly, not eating sugar very often, eating three regular, balanced meals a day, exercising regularly and diversely. It was hard to do because no one has ever said this will actually help. I had to fight through so much shitty medical advice and the unhelpful, biased and poorly researched popular advice I'd find through the media, usually as my only source of information for my problems. Naturally, as a kid, I was not only confused but poorly informed. I felt it was reinforced by doctors etc. I was fat and lazy and unlikely to change my habits, so they'd shrug their shoulders and/or gave me some shit OTC medicine and an SSRI that won't work for me.

Anyway, to that end, that's why I hate therapists etc. I've never met one that was helpful or really emphasised physical health. Well, I met one (psychiatrist) but his nurse was a condescending cunt and he was very posh and naive, which was worrying. Other ones have been really harmful and ultimately don't listen. I once came away from an assessment for care, waited a month or so to see someone and then was told that I was a 'single female living on my own' which was based on assumptions made by the nurse assessing me. I thought I'd made it clear I was in a relationship and that I lived with my partner.

Anyway, it turned out that service wasn't appropriate for my needs whatsoever or something.


I mean, that's just one of many and I wouldn't say that's the worst or most egregious, just a good example of them not listening which is a common issue.

 

[horrorofBeing]

Do you care to elaborate on that? I'd be interested to hear what you think is too extreme. Sorry if it's a bit of an uneducated question, I am only just starting to read up on that movement.

I don't think being normal is crazy or destructive to experience. In my worst mindset, I may find myself in agreement, but I do not think it is helpful to encourage those kinds of insights. Those are insights I don't want to have. I think it's important to try and get on in the world. I don't want to die, and I don't want to be crazy. I don't think craziness is actually sanity. (Again, there are horrific moments when such thoughts take over, but it is not what I truly believe, and I wouldn't want anyone I care about to feel that way.)

I also don't think it's helpful to call mental illness a myth. I don't think mental health is a worthless and harmful concept.

And I don't think it's safe (and safety is very important to me) to go starting communes for violently psychotic individuals to take recreational psychedelics. If my relative was in such a facility I would be extremely concerned.

With all of that said, R.D. Laing in particular has incredibly important insights about the power dynamics of mental health. He is also, in my opinion, correct in his description of the person as a being-in-the-world. I think psychosis is well described as a loss of worldliness, as a particular experience of being-there, which is the most dangerous part of it.