why do americans think therapy is the solution to everything?

DangZagnut · 2018-04-05T22:34:40+00:00

Because women will value anyone who sits and listens to them and validates their nonsense. And if you have to pay for it? Even more value!

Remember women love shiny rocks with no value.

Therapy is for people that can't solve their mental problems through thinking or changes in lifestyle.

Instead of saying, "Hey, if your friend is really hurting you and toxic, maybe you shouldn't be friends and stop hanging around them." to themselves, they want to go pay $400 so someone else can say it to them.

So that's the problem. Therapy just gives you tools to go where you want to go, but these tools are common sense for men in most cases, which is why men go to therapy in at a lower rate than women.

Also, if you go to therapy, then it gives "reality" to your fee fees. It means you have a "real" problem, rather than a "self-caused" problem you could get yourself out of.

Unless you have a real and true mental disorder, which means you have a real and true brain problem like defects or injuries or disease, then if therapy actually works, and since you're the only one doing the work in the first place, then you could have solved your problem in the first place because all a therapist does is help you think about your problems, with some exercises.

But some people like the attention so go to therapists for decades.

who gets to determine who is crazy? Don't you need scientific evidence?

People who go to therapy are't "crazy". It's people who don't know how to, or won't, solve their problem. People with real problems have real brain defects and injuries. There can be some traumatic events that can cause mental ruts, but again, you have to get out of it yourself.

why is it always the person with the problem's fault? What if society is crazy?

Therapy is about someone that has an incorrect view of reality and having emotional responses. One has to have a correct view of reality. Society isn't crazy, but not everyone sees reality and therefore can't navigate through life in a beneficial way.

therapists love to give meds like candy. Shouldn't meds be a last resort?

Meds entire job is to disrupt the brain and with therapy, groove new pathways, similar to putting a pin ball machine on tilt to move a stuck ball. You can do this without drugs, but mental health professionals are just as paid off as doctors who prescribe meds.

freud was demented as #$%^ why would I ever learn a "science" from a perverted nutjob like freud and have a dr who uses principles from this weirdo?

There are very few purely Freud based mental professionals. Psychology has come a long way, but right now drugs and "therapy" are profit centers and easy money. You use a machine to create a pill, and you sit in a chair looking at porn while an attention seeker talks for an hour.

Plus psychology has the highest rate of fucking their patients, so there's that benefit.

JStheHammer · 2018-04-05T22:40:37+00:00

Therapy is talking to someone and getting advice. No one has close friends anymore. That will listen and tell you the truth.

chadbhava · 2018-04-05T22:53:12+00:00

TheRapists love gaslighting

Xein · 2018-04-06T00:30:20+00:00

I only ever hear it as a solution to everything on Reddit, not in real life. Users here just always throw it out there as a fix-all.

But bro, therapy moved far beyond Freud and most therapists aren't qualified to prescribe meds. There is a big distinction between a counselor/therapist and a psychiatrist. Therapists generally haven't gone to med school and aren't permitted to give meds.

I think therapy has its uses, but it's not for every single situation. Cognitive Behavior Therapy has a pretty good track record in helping keep things like Depression and Anxiety managed.

OutWithTheNew · 2018-04-06T04:34:12+00:00

From my experience, a lot of people on drugs for mood disorders probably need to just receive PROPER therapy and counselling.

It's also usually not therapists prescribing medications, because they can't unless they're a licensed doctor too, it's usually GPs.

mgtow4ever · 2018-04-06T06:18:02+00:00

Cause FEE FEES

SimplyKaz · 2018-04-06T13:06:09+00:00

So women can get shit psychology degrees and then get paid to basically gossip all day?

zRaXcPk · 2018-04-06T16:03:21+00:00

All the guys that I work with that went to therapy said they just blame the man the entire time and then they get into an argument on the way home. Sounds great from a womans perspective.

pipre23 · 2018-04-05T22:49:29+00:00

Another shadowban?

pipre23 · 2018-04-05T23:39:51+00:00

I think it's a coastal urban thing. I've lived in the Rockies most of my life, and I don't remember a single friend saying they were in therapy.

OhhDatDogOMine · 2018-04-06T06:25:25+00:00

This is something that really disturbs me.

I signed up for therapy one time when I was in college, ended up with a girl who was maybe 3 years older than me. She suggested the possibility of medication, I told her no thanks I tend to get addicted easily to substances. She responds with "yea meds don't really solve the problem, just mask them"...Then why the fuck did you suggest meds!?! Never went back.

Go over to the relationships sub and they will suggest therapy for ANYTHING. A few weeks ago I read a post about a guy who got a call from his ex-girlfriend of 10 years. Her parents had just died unexpectedly, and she was swallowing xanax and alcohol to cope. The OP, worried about her overdosing or committing suicide, rushed to her place to make sure she was ok. This did not sit will with his wife, and OF COURSE the sub took the wife's side and suggested therapy. Post has been deleted but I manage to archive it in time, PM me if you want to see the link.

I also agree that this is a lot more prevalent in the US. In fact, Americans have a tendency to use other people to solve there problems. I've had neighbors call the police to report me for making a lot of noise, where in other countries they would simply knock on my door and ask me to keep it down like adults, and I would. Like seriously, you need the POLICE for that?

The most bizarre phenomena is marriage counseling. For many people, this is a necessary step to solve marriage problems. You never, ever agree to this (never marry in the first place but that's a different story), it will kill your marriage faster than anything. Women want men who lead them, not men who pay other people to solve their problems.

Most_Insane_F2P · 2018-04-06T07:49:37+00:00

Never do meds
Eat real foods
Drink water

Live long & prosper

PathToTheLight · 2018-04-06T09:21:00+00:00

Suburbia culture

Ebrg · 2018-04-06T16:03:59+00:00

this is a kinda red pilled reddit so I thought I'd ask here

So is there an even more red pilled reddit?

wowitskapow · 2018-04-06T18:47:38+00:00

Ik what you mean. Personally therapy doesn’t seem to work on me. Although I think it’s because I can’t describe how I feel for shit

why do americans think therapy is the solution to everything?

1 who gets to determine who is crazy? Don't you need scientific evidence?

2 why is it always the person with the problem's fault? What if society is crazy?

3 therapists love to give meds like candy. Shouldn't meds be a last resort?

4 freud was demented as #$%^ why would I ever learn a "science" from a perverted nutjob like freud and have a dr who uses principles from this weirdo?

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Title	why do americans think therapy is the solution to everything?
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Date	April 5, 2018 10:26 PM UTC (8 years ago)
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