MenNeedToBeHeard: Why Are Mental Health Professionals Mocking Men?

Former_Range_1730 · 2025-03-12T13:58:33+00:00

I think it's because the mental health industry has been taken over by a specific ideology that is geared against specially hetero men. There is a sort of anti-patriarchy mantra in that industry, and so if you're male, and hetero, you are part of that patriarchy from their perspective. So they are set up to not be very helpful to you.

They'll just tell you that your natural behaviors are a male is all socially constructed, and push you to take on more feminine traits as the true human default of expression and feelings.

Mobile_Zucchini_7179 · 2025-03-12T14:05:54+00:00

The mental health system is not what the media partakes it to be, that’s for sure. I left a toxic relationship, to only be thrown through nothing but a traumatic experience. After sleeping in my car for close to 8 months with my service dog I was finally accepted into the Enrichment Centre for Mental Health in Belleville Ontario, well that wasn’t the best experience considering those places cause you more depression, the amount of conflict, and people that cause it there was no different then being in a toxic environment. The amount of rules they have in a place that’s suppose to make you feel safe and comfortable, really makes it feel more like jail with the ability to leave. Long story short my ex came there with one of my boys for him to see me one day she was in town, well unfortunately she had attitude that day and caused a scene out front and I told her to leave and went inside, the next day 3 mental health workers came with a paper trespassing me from the property and giving me 1 hour to remove my belongings. Why because my ex caused a problem? So basically they are stating you should be able to control other and their actions. So I was again left homeless with my dog from a place that supposed to help you and be there for you in these situations.

63daddy · 2025-03-12T15:17:58+00:00

When I was in school, sociology and psychology, fell in social studies, which have since been renamed, social sciences, even though much of what is taught is not scientific. Clearly subjects like sociology, psychology, and women’s studies have been very manipulated by agenda.

We similarly see “feminist science”, which, of course, is not at all scientific either.

jessi387 · 2025-03-12T14:13:17+00:00

Considering what is being taught at the undergraduate level, it’s no surprise these mental health “professionals” are turning out this way .

Awkward_Reaction_571 · 2025-03-12T15:24:16+00:00

Sounds like communal gaslighting to me. She, an abusive woman, heard about one of her sisters, a fellow abusive woman, nearing the point where she might have to take accountability for her actions. Despite being obligated as a health professional to promote healing of her clients under the Psychotherapist's Oath, she decided to give assistance to a woman she never met instead.

Huh. Well, she was stupid enough to publicly admit it, so that's a plus I guess.

Nymanator · 2025-03-12T16:16:18+00:00

The case might not even be real; she might just be trying to smugly make a point about how women supposedly get treated when they bring up abuse - despite overwhelming evidence that authorities and professionals generally take cases of women as victims much more seriously than those of men. Still a nasty piece of work.

Mobile_Zucchini_7179 · 2025-03-12T23:56:27+00:00

That’s why I’ve decided to go sleep in the cold and just give up. Nobody cares anyways.

king_rootin_tootin · 2025-03-12T23:43:46+00:00

The woman in that video was despicable and should have her license revoked.

I saw two therapists as adults, both males, one was okay but overworked and the other was awesome. My second therapist was a specialist in trauma and worked with a lot of men who survived CSA like I did.

You can still find good therapists but you have to look and get a feel for them during assessment.

Smeg-life · 2025-03-12T21:25:55+00:00

Is there a professional body that a complaint against them can be referred to?

thedisliked23 · 2025-03-13T16:17:44+00:00

I've worked in mental health for my entire career. It's absolutely true that the entire field is geared towards and populated by mostly women. There are reasons for this. One, women are naturally drawn towards "caring" fields like mental health, nursing, teaching, etc. Women aren't as income focused in general (although more now than last generations) for a variety of reasons and the mental health field pays like absolute shit comparatively to any other medical field. Two year degree nurses make more than experienced licensed therapists with 6 year degrees and sometimes more than doctorate level psychologists. Also, societally women are more likely to seek mental health care, and are more likely to seek a female therapist, so the "market" dictates the imbalance in providers based on gender.

All that being said, there are absolutely female therapists that aren't misandrists, don't allow their personal feminist agenda to affect their work, and do great work with men. But by looking for male therapists that completely reinforce your ideology or worldview you're doing yourself a disservice and if that's all they're doing they're bad therapists. I mentioned this elsewhere but this is exactly the same as female therapists reinforcing feminist views that support narcissistic behavior, especially in couples counseling or when women have difficulty with relationships. Your therapist should challenge you. Especially on the behaviors and experiences that brought you to a therapist in the first place.

What I will say is that it's absolutely terrible and enlightening to work on a female dominated field and it gives me some insight into what it's like for a woman working in a male dominated field (different obviously but still interesting to be exposed to). And I will tell you that the vast majority of women working in the field (especially in direct care) hate the fact that there's barely any men and my employees, especially my assistant managers, are often pushing me to hire men over women. Mostly because an all female dynamic in the workplace is often full of drama and they hate it.

At the end of the day, it's on you to find a therapist you can work with and to be honest about the things you want to address. I went through three for my kid before I found one that worked well with him and yes, the first three started the convo with some version of "toxic masculinity is bad". The one that I found was not reinforcing his views but also wasn't throwing buzzwords with the intention of making him feel bad for who he is. The fix is for more men to enter the field and this won't occur until it's funded properly. Being "anti mental health" will absolutely not fix this.

librae_vongehl · 2025-03-17T03:53:23+00:00

It's to be expected after the APA declared war on white men a few decades back.

Since the APA decides who can practice in the field and how they practice, it's a systemic-idealogical problem. ...if not another front in 5th generational warfare against our civilization.

World-Three · 2025-03-18T08:42:02+00:00

Reminds me of some police authorities. They went there so they can be deferred to and control a narrative they set in their minds. Whether it be real or not...

She's not there to help, she's there to help her own. I probably can say the same of women teachers, activists, and a bunch of other selective authorities in society.

Big-Flatworm-135 · 2025-03-19T11:11:14+00:00

John Barry as well. He’s a good one.

Title	MenNeedToBeHeard: Why Are Mental Health Professionals Mocking Men?
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