Thoughts on therapy

[deleted] · 2014-08-28T17:03:31+00:00

About once a month weather permitting

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TheReason13 · 2014-08-28T19:41:47+00:00

The issue I have with therapy is the following:

If the kind of therapy you need is psychological, then it means you are psychologically unstable.

If you are psychologically unstable and seek the counsel of a professional, this means that your intent is to stabilize yourself psychologically.

The professional is an indoctrinated academic, this is a risk considering your unstable state of mind leaves you vulnerable to unhealthy external influences.

Psychiatry is well known for not knowing what the fuck they are doing. They work off a system of trial and error, where they have a set of generally pre-prepared advice and drugs based on a specific set of symptoms. They base results on the short term and ignore the long term effects of advice or drugs they prescribe.

I am not telling you not to trust them, I'm just saying I do not.

nechoha · 2014-08-28T17:08:49+00:00

I go every other week or so. I work on personal issues and dealing with a chronic illness and depression.

AFPJ · 2014-08-28T17:21:43+00:00

This made me realize I'm on too many "therapies".

I read, train, go to active recovery therapy, take an ice bath and meditate daily. Chiropractic adjustments, deep tissue massage and gun range practice several times a week. Hand to hand combat and parajumping every month.

steveob42 · 2014-08-28T18:28:25+00:00

Haven't been in a while, talked to a CBT guy. There is a lot of B.S. but I was able to pick his brain a bit on a lot of mechanical stuff, i.e. hypothalamus vs amygdala. Differences in limbic system function between the sexes, various studies, meditation, rewiring/reparenting via cognition, etc. I had no problem challenging him on the loftier claims though. He was no red-piller, I wouldn't mind asking him about a couple concepts though, but at least understood that there are genuine differences between the sexes.

I managed to glean a much better understanding from the experience. My doctor friends say don't use anything but a CBT, mine was pretty well experienced.

[deleted] · 2014-08-28T17:05:34+00:00

I've been to therapy more than a couple times throughout my life. I never keep going, and here's why:

For one, therapy tends to focus on self-improvement. Honestly, you should be able to look at yourself and figure out how to improve yourself. You should be able to look at yourself objectively and see your flaws, and things that you want to change. If you can't do this already, chances are therapy is going to just be a wallet draining activity where you bitch, while the therapist literally just repeats: why do n't you try this, why didn't you try this, how does this make you feel, do you think something caused you to feel this way.

Go to the gym. Take up MMA. Do yoga and meditate. All of those things right there are my therapy now. There's not much to think about when you're lifting weights than "how can I become better."

Title	Thoughts on therapy
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