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(anonymous for obvious reasons) Psychological therapy is the snake oil of the 21st century. See an actual doctor instead. I say this having recovered from a s
by anoncowardthrow 5y ago
(anonymous for obvious reasons)
Psychological therapy is the snake oil of the 21st century. See an actual doctor instead.
I say this having recovered from a suicide attempt.
- bananamerica 5y agoThere are many things medication cannot do. Psychotherapy is often not about coming up with novel surprising changes, but rather providing alternatives behaviors to help you do what you most likely already know you should be doing. I'm sad it didn't work out for you, and I don't think everyone should be in therapy. But psychotherapy is overwelmingly proven to work.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoI kind of agree, although honestly I don't think doctor's are much better. Both suffer from the problem of 90% of them being just good enough at their job to handle the easy stuff and utter crap at anything else.
- mathgladiator 5y agoI agree with this, but the truth is that you basically are buying a friend who will keep your secrets secret.
- mbrodersen 5y agoI think therapy is basically paying somebody to listen. Which is a great service if you don’t have anybody really listening to you in your life.