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Originally Posted by Argonautomobile
I just hope the implication here isn't that therapy and medication helped me because I've been duped by the great overlords of Big Pharma and the Self-Help Industry. I tend to think therapy and medication worked for me because these are legitimate treatments for my very credible mental health concerns.
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My original point was that the MH system trains us to believe that our problems in living are medical disorders that require treatment, rather than self-care. It's a baseless concept. Whether the system's purported treatments help some is another thing entirely. Now we are getting into complex questions about the way individual people heal, the power of the mind, and all the confounding variables.
I don't see how calling therapy a "treatment" makes much sense. I understand that talk therapy might be helpful, in that a positive interaction with another person is helpful, but calling it treatment suggests, again, some sort of medical model.