Therapy.. for those who can’t handle life.
Back in the 1960’s us kids had a remedy for this problem and it went something like this sung in chorus: Baby, Baby, stick your head in gravy. Repeats until kid runs home to mommy.
The last sentence in the article is powerful.
Therapy” is a complete scam.
“This is how therapy can quietly become an engine that keeps people stuck. Patients leave not more capable of tolerating frustration, ambiguity, or ordinary disappointment, but less. They become more fluent in explaining why they feel the way they do while becoming less practiced at changing what they do next.”
Well, sure - if I actually help the patient, she won’t be my patient anymore, and where does that leave ME?
Far better to keep her dependent on me so I don’t have to get a real job.
Destroy the family unit, attack Christianity and its tenets, segment society via race & ethnicity, etc. and this is what arises. The foundational underpinnings of a successful society have been and still are under attack, and supporting “leaders” who are too weak or compromised by their own hubris to do what is necessary always leads to collapse. Those who feel rudderless will seek help through legitimate or fake “therapy. Social media has been gas on the fire.
My wife’s therapy for the kids: buck up buttercup.
“Every difficult interaction at work had been interpreted through the same frame: the boss was toxic, the co-workers invalidating, and the environment unsafe...”
If everyone around you is a jerk, guess what? YOU’RE THE JERK!
Bob Newhart’s character Dr Robert Hartley actually helped a patient once by essentially telling him this.
Just like any for profit industry, therapy needs to grow so it constantly markets itself and finds needs even where there isn’t one. Just like the drug industry and the transgender surgery industry. Everyone needs to be talking to a therapist and on some pill.
My mother would recommend “a swift kick in the pants” to straighten out this person. I go along with that.
There are very few things in life about which we can really be "certain".
I think part of the problem goes back to government schools which no longer teach children how to think. They teach what to think. In all cases the teacher knows the precise answer -- and you better know it too. This works fine for math -- 2+2=4 (although this can be racist). Children are taught to parrot the "correct" answer. Don't question climate change, don't question evolution, don't question whether men can give birth. The answer is always very clear and your teacher will drill it into your head.
But in most other subjects, certainty is not guaranteed. You have to think about multiple viewpoints and diverse possibilities. What was the cause of WWI? What was the cause of WWII? In Asia? In Europe? What year did WWII start? 1937? 1939? 1941? Anyone who thinks that they "know" the right answer is deluding themselves. These are complex questions and it depends on viewpoint. If schools taught children to think in a flexible way, I think a fair number of psychological and interpersonal issues might be resolved more easily.
Therapy = gym, range, or anything with a horse.
My ex wanted to go to therapy. I said unless he/she is willing to write me a big check to pay off the debt you have rung up then it is worthless.
Half of all democrat women are taking medication for psychosis or seeing a therapist for their emotional anguish. It’s is very prevalent among Western feminist women. The ones who brag about being empowered and independent.
These women are incapable of attaining happiness because they seek validation and approval from external sources instead of from within. I predict more misery and pain is in their future.
Yes.
According to “them”, everybody needs therapy. Usually they are the biggest nut bags.
I thought it was Love.