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Originally Posted by BudFox
After serious research, reflection, networking... I have concluded that talk therapy is a gigantic hustle. A psychological shell game. Like most of healthcare, it exists to serve itself. And therapists are frighteningly indifferent to the damage they cause, and in some cases pathologically so. I'm not jaded. I'm informed. I get that there are bright spots, and that it could be better than continuing to spiral down. This is just my perspective.
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I agree with you.
The mental health professionals that I've encountered - from assessors to clinical psychologists - have all been ideologues. These people are impossible to deal with because they refuse to believe or understand anything other than what they've learned. I appreciate that they need to be passionate about what they do, particularly if they've studied for years, but I also think that they should be more flexible and actually listen to the real experts - us. Disregarding our feelings because they can't categorise us is very dangerous; I wish that they'd treat us like the individuals that we are, and understand that what works for one person, may not work for another.
It makes me wonder if people with more conformist personality types are more likely to become therapists in the first place? By saying that, I'm in no way implying that all T's behave like "robots" or that they are incapable of thinking independently, I'm just going on my own experiences and what other people have told me.