New Yorkers are ditching therapists for psychics: ‘I just kind of gave up’

NY POST ^ | Published Oct. 9, 2023, | By Alexandra Klausner

[Ciaphas Cain]

No. Therapy is NOT a racket. As someone with bipolar disorder I have seen counselors for almost twenty years now. So far I have been very blessed to have had some exceptionally good ones. I wouldn't be in the place now, having found ways to work around my condition, had it not been for therapy.

What MUST be understood however, is that for therapy to be effective at all the person in therapy HAS to be willing to WORK toward his or her recovery. And that's where so many go wrong. They expect to flit into a therapist's office for one hour every week or month and talk and then leave until the time for the next appointment. It's not supposed to go like that. I would say that of the client/therapist relationship, 1/4th of the work is the therapist's and the remaining 3/4ths is the responsibility of the client, if not much more so. Otherwise it's just expensive conversation.

The people in this article are obviously individuals who aren't interested in working toward their own mental health. They've been expecting a counselor to tell them magic words that make all the badness go away. And that's never going to work.

[SamAdams76]

I went to a fortune teller/tarot card reader just one time, it was with an early girlfriend who was into all that hippie-dippie stuff. This pschic (a woman) did the whole nine yards. Not only did she look like Cher but she worked in a darkened room with heavy curtains, tiny tables with candles, soft Eastern meditation music playing with thick rugs and incense burning all around.

You are right, those "psychics" market themselves more to the women as they are very touchy-feely and super vague about what they are telling you so that no matter what happens in your life afterwards, you can say they were mostly right in their predictions. They are pretty good at it.

This would have been back in the early 1980s and I remember being told that I had a bright future, that my hard work would someday pay off, that I would have setbacks but would overcome them, that a close family member would disappoint me, a friend would betray me, blah, blah, blah. Basically the kind of stuff that happens to everybody eventually.

My girlfriend was beaming afterwards, saying over and over again "Aren't you glad you went?". Many of the women do eat that psychic stuff up. I did not last too long with that girlfriend. She was nice enough but we just didn't work out.

[Larry Lucido]

"All signs point to Yes."

[ChildOfThe60s]

As the Thai say “same same, but different”

[cgbg]

I can save this person’s life for free—simple advice:

“Leave Jersey City now. Bonus points if you leave New Jersey.”

;-)

[SaxxonWoods]

It’s religion replacement. Scientists say religious beliefs are in our DNA, a biological imperative. If we reject one style, we will gravitate to another.

[vpintheak]

This motorcycle rider agrees! I can’t believe I left that out of my comment! I wholeheartedly agree with your comment.

[Gen.Blather]

“therapy is a racket, but psychics are even more so.

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My sister, in her seventies, attended a gym and had a personal trainer. One day I went with her. The trainer was an amazing specimen of a man. He looked into her eyes as she talked, and talked, and talked. She did very little weightlifting and I realized the trainer was better than a therapist and one heck of a lot cheaper. Definitely a racket. But what the heck...

[SaxxonWoods]

Thank you very much for your comment. It’s instructive to hear from someone who has experienced such a thing directly “from the inside out”.

[gundog]

Place your trust the inscrutable wisdom of the East....

[LuxAerterna]

There’s really not much difference anyways between the two.

[EEGator]

I took acid on St Barts with spider monkeys.
It changed my whole perspective on things...

[No name given]

My thoughts exactly.

[No name given]

Amen!

[chud]

+1 from this motorcycle rider.
Taking up riding was the best thing ever for my mental health.

[KC_Conspirator]

You know, I am not sure what is worse, but I am going to say therapists. They parade around as helpful, yet have a horrible track record of helping people. And at least psychics are not affiliated with the APA which now allows all kinds of harmful degeneracy, leftist politics, even to the point of saying that masculinity in itself is a disorder.

[ConservativeInPA]

Try reading the Bible, it is full of wisdom and is an excellent instruction manual on how to live your life. Get the basics correct and the rest takes care of itself.

[georgia peach]

Totally agree.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Aria D’Amore, 35, an artist and model living in Jersey City, was dissatisfied with therapy for nearly 30 years, so she decided to seek guidance from an intuitive healer practicing tarot and astrology.

What the heck are you doing going into therapy at FIVE?

Were you kidnapped by the Son of Sam?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***ditching their shrinks for psychics who give them “real” guidance instead. ***

Oldest scam in the world. My folks had an old house built in 1909 in which the attic was papered with old St Louis Dispatch newspapers. In reading some of them there were dozens of adds for Psychics.

There was a book written about fifty years ago titled “Psychic Mafia by M. Lamar Keene” which exposed the psychics. The author was later shot but survived.