Personally, I don't think I've ever seen anyone make a statement as derogatory or all-encompassing as all therapists or all meds are horrible (we could call this a meta-generalization -- a generalization about generalizations); however, upon seeing someone make such a logic-defying generalization, I'm pretty sure my only instinct would be to feel concern and empathy, for whatever trauma would have caused them to develop such a vehement reaction. To be honest, I'm not even sure why a therapist doing right by their own clients would likewise be anything but empathetic, knowing it couldn't be them they were talking about.

What makes a psychological injury received at the hands of a practitioner any less deserving of open-minded empathy than any other psychological injury? The viewpoints and concerns of those who have come to question what good can come of industry therapy (and I think most have likely formed their opinion from considerable experience, and not out of thin air) are no less viable, no less human, no less deserving of respect. At least that's my opinion about it. Instead of leaning towards only being supportive of the attitudes and ideas you might share about the industry, doesn't being supportive of everyone, without judgment, allow for a much greater collective intelligence? Besides just being fair.

Clearly different solutions work for different people, and part of that reality is that some methods will work badly, will be detrimental for some. When I made my last decision to try therapy, after having lost both my husband and my best friend of 25 years within the space of just a couple of years, I wish someone had been there to question my decision, because the therapy I got took what was an awful situation and made it cripplingly worse and more complicated. For me, the better advice would have been to wait the depression out without seeing a therapist who was going to insist I take antidepressants, which I still haven't recovered from, and turn out to have no clue how to treat me. So it's all pretty subjective. It's not as though I go around telling anyone what they should or shouldn't do. But doesn't my experience represent as significant a unit of the collective human experience as any other person? (Rhetorical.)

Peace.