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We barely know anything about the brain. We don't know how consciousness arises from a collection of neurons. So talk therapy is the best we've got. Sure, pay a

by zamnos 4y ago

We barely know anything about the brain. We don't know how consciousness arises from a collection of neurons. So talk therapy is the best we've got. Sure, pay a sex worker for an hour so you've got 59 minutes to talk about your loneliness with, after you finish having sex with her if you'd rather talk to a woman you paid to have sex with instead of a licensed and trained professional listen to you. (And to be fair some sex workers are actually really great therapists due to what their profession involves.) But you be real. Women don't have the same epidemic of loneliness as men because they talk to each other. Talking about your loneliness and isolation helps address the problem. Sulking at home and jeering at people who go to years of school to learn how to help people address problems in their lives, (and then gasp charge money for goods and services under capitalism) is a very counterproductive viewpoint.

orwin 4y ago
If by 'talk therapy' you mean psychoanalysis, it's not at all the best we have. I mean, I know some people prefer lithotherapy and homeotherapy over evidence-based medecine, but I would not argue that they're 'the best we have'. I'm not a fan of hypnosis at all (I prefer therapies that involve the patient becoming an agent), but it's cheaper, shorter, and have empirically a better success rate, and a lower remission rate. We don't know how it work but we can mesure how much it does, an in case of psychoanalysis, it doesn't. Take homeopathic antidepressant with a certified homeopath, it'll work the same. Psychoanalyst are entrenched in a early 20th century view of the human brain, just listen to them talking about autism. 'trained professional' psychoanalyst have the same effect on me as a 'trained professional' sorcerer does, except I can play pathfinder with the second. I don't really care that they charge money now that my mom got out of their claws, just as I didn't really care about cryptocurrencies grifters charging money for financial advice, my typical friends and family are not the usual prey so I don't feel threatened. I'm just sad that as American women managed to escape this grift (unlike French women), young American men seems to fall into the trap.

by zamnos 4y ago

orwin 4y ago

If by 'talk therapy' you mean psychoanalysis, it's not at all the best we have. I mean, I know some people prefer lithotherapy and homeotherapy over evidence-based medecine, but I would not argue that they're 'the best we have'. I'm not a fan of hypnosis at all (I prefer therapies that involve the patient becoming an agent), but it's cheaper, shorter, and have empirically a better success rate, and a lower remission rate. We don't know how it work but we can mesure how much it does, an in case of psychoanalysis, it doesn't. Take homeopathic antidepressant with a certified homeopath, it'll work the same. Psychoanalyst are entrenched in a early 20th century view of the human brain, just listen to them talking about autism. 'trained professional' psychoanalyst have the same effect on me as a 'trained professional' sorcerer does, except I can play pathfinder with the second. I don't really care that they charge money now that my mom got out of their claws, just as I didn't really care about cryptocurrencies grifters charging money for financial advice, my typical friends and family are not the usual prey so I don't feel threatened. I'm just sad that as American women managed to escape this grift (unlike French women), young American men seems to fall into the trap.