Venting Therapy Is Retarded

[LoveIsTheKing]

After a long, bullshit "recovery" journey, I have come to this conclusion: I was scammed. Sure, if you have mild to moderate anxiety, depression, maybe BPD- congrats! You can get help. But for the rest of us treatment resistant , broken motherfuckers? It's a money pit run by barely-educated numbskulls that love the smell of their own farts. I've wasted my time, my money, my soul. It's completely useless. When faced with real, raw, mind-bending trauma, these fuckers do nothing but "hold space." Quit holding my space, you potato. It didn't give consent. The clinicians I've dealt with? Their degrees are participation trophies. And they hardly participate. Not in reality. So fuck it, right? Who's with me?

 

[MrBigSad]

I'm sorry you wasted money on it in the first place. I don't need anyone to tell me what's "wrong" i know what i am where I'm going and what I'm doing. Therapy is like paying for friends. Except its like £80 an hour and sll they tell you is to try harder. As if I've not been trying hard my entire Satan bless it life. Just go out and exercise more! make friends! Eat healthier! It's easier said than done.

 

[starrypandabear]

Therapy is like paying a stranger hundred of dollars to tell u things u can say to yourself in the bathroom mirror. I can't stand them, especially the pseudo sympathy they give you, or pretending to be your friend.

 

[LoveIsTheKing]

I'm sorry you wasted money on it in the first place. I don't need anyone to tell me what's "wrong" i know what i am where I'm going and what I'm doing. Therapy is like paying for friends. Except its like £80 an hour and sll they tell you is to try harder. As if I've not been trying hard my entire Satan bless it life. Just go out and exercise more! make friends! Eat healthier! It's easier said than done.

thanks! yeah, I agree. I've been eating way healthier and socializing. Next step is getting back into my exercise routine. But today I surrender, throwing caution to the wind with my empty calories of beer and a heart full of "fuck-it"s

I'm sorry you wasted money on it in the first place. I don't need anyone to tell me what's "wrong" i know what i am where I'm going and what I'm doing. Therapy is like paying for friends. Except its like £80 an hour and sll they tell you is to try harder. As if I've not been trying hard my entire Satan bless it life. Just go out and exercise more! make friends! Eat healthier! It's easier said than done.

note: I realize the "eat better exercise and make friends" comment was probably sardonic. But I'm looking for a slightly better life before I kms and doing these things has helped more than therapy. Not a drastic difference, I'm just looking for a slightly better quality of life before I kms. I mean, somebodies gonna stumble across my fat corpse. lol!

 

[killdozer]

I'm sorry you wasted money on it in the first place. I don't need anyone to tell me what's "wrong" i know what i am where I'm going and what I'm doing. Therapy is like paying for friends. Except its like £80 an hour and sll they tell you is to try harder. As if I've not been trying hard my entire Satan bless it life. Just go out and exercise more! make friends! Eat healthier! It's easier said than done.

Shit was so fucking useless oh my god. The therapist I had straight up told me "oh why don't you just.. do your work?" Oh REALLY now?

 

[U. A.]

2026 and people still throwin' around the r– word like that huh

 

[Topaz111]

Paying a therapist and expecting them to truly "care" about you is like paying a sex worker and expecting them to "love" you.
Half of them challange everything you say and think all your issues are caused by "thinking wrong and not trying hard enough", the other half sounds empathetic and kind, but their support only lasts 1 hour per week at a crazy price. Not to mention the "tools, coping skills and worksheets" they give you are all crap you can get from a 10 min google search. The only people who can benefit from a therapist are those with very mild anxiety/depression.

 

[LoveIsTheKing]

2026 and people still throwin' around the r– word like that huh

yeah, so? jesus christ, people have become insufferable.

 

[bananaolympus]

Agreed my therapist introduced himself like a salesman he said "12 sections is all you need by the end you will have the tools needed to fix your problems" obviously i it was a nope for me but my mother insisted to take the 12 week program, all i did was some kind of puzzle games and my therapist praising me for knowing a lot of stuff asociated with my condition, i was a step ahead he said like ok thats nice but you should be way ahead of me you the professional so you telling me the internet is more useful than a "professional" who bragged he studied under some well recognized psychotherapist, we didn't even used the most basic of cognitive behavioral therapy i finished the program with nothing i didn't knew before, just gonna say this after my attempt a resident doctor helped me more with casual answers to some of my doubts i had and his area was orthopedic meanwhile my therapist will answer those questions like if it were some riddles i was supposed to decipher

 

[U. A.]

yeah, so? jesus christ, people have become insufferable.

Yeah, unapologetically throwing slurs around really is insufferable.

 

[LoveIsTheKing]

Yeah, unapologetically throwing slurs around really is insufferable.

I suggest either engaging with the topic or going back to Reddit

 

[mustard tiger]

ya therapy is literally retarded

like some stranger could possibly know better than I do about my own problems. I have had these issues for so many years. if there was a solution, I would have figured it out by now.

giant waste of my time.

 

[9mmisglutenfree]

people in therapy are so self righteous about it. bitch, i tried more than my fair share of "doctors". shit aint for me

 

[LoveIsTheKing]

people in therapy are so self righteous about it. bitch, i tried more than my fair share of "doctors". shit aint for me

hey off topic but I love ur ur username/quote and pic haha. we have a similar sense of humor it seems.

edit: on topic, yes they are self righteous about it. and I use to be one of those people, which I cringe to think about. I think in my experience I wanted so badly for it to work, and to believe that I didn't waste all this time and money, that I had brainwashed myself. It's cult-like, honestly.

 

[Defatigatis]

Agree, I only wasted my time and money paying someone just to listen to me and indirectly repeat what I said

 

[ArteriesBindEveryon]

Therapy works for most people but the idea that anyone can benefit from it is total bullshit. There's also the fear of being institutionalized for being too mentally ill. As long as involuntary hospitalization exists, full honesty in therapy will remain a risk.

 

[Spite]

I very recently started seeing a therapist (at the behest of my family's insistence), and I've had two sessions so far. It feels like a total waste of my time and money. I told my life story to this psych and tried to explain my problems to him, and he gave me some of the most bland, most generic, useless advice you could ever give to someone. I told him about my crippling social anxiety and my inability to form connections with others, and he practically said to me to "just be confident bro!", "oh, you just gotta put yourself out there bro!", "just go to a social group!", as if I haven't already tried that half a dozen times.

I'm upset because I exist. I am unhappy because, as my custom title says, I don't like this world. No amount of therapy will ever be able to help me in that regard. Therapy can't "treat" reality. Therapy can't "fix" the deep, fundamental flaws of this existence.

 

[WrathfulGloom32]

yeah, so? jesus christ, people have become insufferable.

The cognitive dissonance is insane here. bye