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I Am Disgusted With Mental Health Services

Good group title.

Mostly "mental health" therapy is actually psycho-technology at best.

I feel insulted when I know something and express it and someone with a certificate on the wall says that I have to RE-FRAME such knowledge as to make it more USEFUL and FRIENDLY for some reason. Maybe to be conventional for the sake of conventionality???

What if you felt as if the thing you said expressed why you are getting things right for YOU and no one else? Is IS possible to get a lot of things right for oneself and still feel in great need of help!!

What makes you think the therapist UNDERSTANDS that? What makes these therapists think they can figure out what's best for you in the first place when they mostly don't care about what you do actually say and don't act like they really wanna know you?

And so isn't that outright mind control and not therapy?

Isn't most therapy really like that now?

Isn't the real idea to know how/why you screwed up so YOU can know why it feels better to straighten out?
TeresaRudolph71 · 51-55, F
I agree. Actually, with the last mental health professional I went to, it was worse than that. He sometimes seemed to think that he knew better than I did what was going on inside my head, but he was almost always wrong. I think that listening is probably one of the most important and underrated skills there is.
TeresaRudolph71 · 51-55, F
@Platoscave This is very well said. Anyone who thinks that there is a one size fits all method that will work for all patients is probably too lazy to do an effective job.

And I really think that for someone to help me see my way clear to bettering my life (which I like to think is the goal of therapy), they really need to see ME with all my qualities (not just my weaknesses and issues). That was why I had to stop seeing one of my psychiatrists, because all she saw was my symptoms, and she couldn't see any hope for me. I think I had to change what I was focusing on too, but I had to get away from her to be able to do that.
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@TeresaRudolph71 Wow... that is quite perceptive of you.
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@TeresaRudolph71 can you chat?

 
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