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1 posted on 06/22/2025 5:31:34 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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Poor mental health among “liberals” (leftists) is no surprise to me. I think much of the problem starts with leftist teachers.


2 posted on 06/22/2025 5:32:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Working 12-steps to face workday challenges may be better than extreme reliance on ‘therapy’ or ‘therapists’ I won’t totally diss them but we have decades of softening thinking out there people unable to stop drugging themselves.

People unable to ‘bear their crosses’ as the Good Book says and survive and thrive in everyday situations.


4 posted on 06/22/2025 5:51:12 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER REV; NIEMOLLER)
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A lot of parents don’t know how to be parents.
A lot of schools don’t know how to teach.
A lot of psychologists don’t know how people ought to think or behave.

And in the workplace, a lot of managers don’t know how to manage.

We seem to have incompetence at all levels, and there is unfortunate synergy between these things so that any attempt to improve anything will “trigger” immediate opposition to the proposed improvement. We are not allowed to fix anything. We just get worse.


5 posted on 06/22/2025 5:51:43 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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Keep feeding them SSRI’s and boosters.


6 posted on 06/22/2025 6:05:57 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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This is from an old Geico commercial. R. Lee Ermey as a therapist. Psychiatrists like this may work for a majority of patients.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APwfZYO1di4


7 posted on 06/22/2025 6:11:21 AM PDT by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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Gee, let me think ... throw God out of your country and guess who comes in?


10 posted on 06/22/2025 6:46:19 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (In a way ge is right as)
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11 posted on 06/22/2025 6:47:29 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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Excellent article.

Thank you for posting it.


12 posted on 06/22/2025 6:52:21 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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Our government pays richly for those who get certain mental health diagnoses.


13 posted on 06/22/2025 6:54:45 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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BTTT


14 posted on 06/22/2025 6:57:54 AM PDT by nopardons
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I underwent intensive psychotherapy for many years, starting at age 18, when I was an abused, impoverished, suicidal teenager. I got a job working after school to pay for it, and defied my mother to do it.

It's one of the smartest things I've ever done.

It strengthened and empowered me.

The first psychotherapist was a wonderful man, who helped me clarify my thinking and rely on my innate strength and judgment and to value truth above all else. He saved my life.

The second was also a wonderful man, an ex-Marine who had had countless priceless experiences. He was expert at thinking outside the box. He taught me to do so also. In addition to a doctorate degree, he had a masters degree in human sexuality and had had vast personal experiences in the field. He taught me to defeat migraine headaches that had always plagued me, via hypnosis and then self-hypnosis, and how to achieve other valuable things the same way. He told me that Jesus was never far from him, and, as he lay dying, he was completely happy and excited about the afterlife to come.

What both of these men gave me is priceless.

They taught me the power, beauty, and value of my inherent gifts, including the priceless gifts of masculinity and my other inalienable endowments.

Today, I have a life I wish everyone could have: wealth, family, happiness, married to the same wonderful woman for 65 years, children, grandchildren.

I look back on a long, fabulous life.

I feel profound gratitude to these two men who helped me find my way,

And who taught me, among many other things, the greatest value of all: my faith in God--and His faith in me!

Psychotherapy is something wonderful.

It's not psychotherapy that's dangerous, it's nutcase psychotherapists. Many people lack the wit to understand the virtue of strength and the folly of weakness.

15 posted on 06/22/2025 7:01:12 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Nothing inflames unrest in the delusional, and nothing inflames unrest in the evil, like TRUTH.)
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Therapy is addictive. It becomes a crutch that you can’t let go.


16 posted on 06/22/2025 8:01:21 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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It works for the therapist. Their patients never improve. In fact, they may get more neurotic, meaning a need for more therapy. Cha-ching. If you help them work through their issue, then eventually they don’t need you anymore. Can’t have that. It’s easier to just validate their neurosis and keep them on the books.


17 posted on 06/22/2025 8:16:35 AM PDT by redangus ( )
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We are at the easy times create weak men stage.


18 posted on 06/22/2025 8:30:49 AM PDT by vpintheak (Screw the ChiComms! America first!)
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He is so right.


19 posted on 06/22/2025 9:23:56 AM PDT by Bigg Red ( Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.)
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Psychoanalysis and its cousin, psychotherapy, arose out of non-Christian sources.

It fails because it does not recognize that evil is real and that some behaviors are sins against the only God, Who created us and our universe.


23 posted on 06/22/2025 5:29:37 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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