Discussion Does your therapist or psychiatrist care for you? Or do they look to profit from you?

[Buddha.chris]

This world is cruel and animalistic everyone takes advantage of each other this society is broken nobody loves each other anymore no body cares for the next man or women everyone has a secret agenda especially your therapist and psychiatrist they are probably the worst of them all because they profit from your misfortune your depressed state of mind it's a job for them for us it's real life and I feel the effects of having over prescribed medications at a young age from different kinds of psychiatrist & now in my early 20s not being able to function normally or work also living at home & being a failure in Life & my insane depression has caused me to lose all hope I've been suffering with deep dark sadness and loneliness and depression for a very long time im tired of suffering I long for the day I can just free myself and let go of the tragic life I've been holding onto.

 

[Zegers]

well i think you are basically a number for therapist, ive tried and all they want you is to keep going to talk about problems in circles

 

[Octavia]

The doctors and therapists from my university are the most caring souls I have ever met. They're kinder towards me than my own birth parents, but then again that is a pretty low bar lol

 

[Never Alive]

I found myself a really good psychiatrist. Couldn't be happier. Even if I don't take meds atm. Because of side effects like PSSD, mild dyskinesia, akathisia etc.

 

[Buddha.chris]

well i think you are basically a number for therapist, ive tried and all they want you is to keep going to talk about problems in circles

All they ever did was make me relive very traumatic moments of my life that I was not willing to share in the first place, basically forcing me to relive the trauma over and over again causing me great distress. I was molested by my older male cousin from 11 years old till 16 and that's all my therapist wanted to talk about i'm so disappointed with the mental system they treat you as an object instead of a human they wouldn't treat their families this way, so why are they treating us this way? Not the Mention I believe I'm autistic but haven't been diagnosed.

 

[sulli]

everyone with my therapist's & psychologist's office started caring about me real bad once i got hit with that 'chronic high risk' label. now i rarely go a day without hearing from one of em

 

[UsagiDrop]

I think two things can be true at once. It's kind of like when people say lawyers hope you break the law and doctors hope you get sick— they may or may not care, they may or may not have a genuine desire to help, but at the end of the day, it's their job and some jobs profit off misfortunes. It can't be denied that some psychiatrists and therapists are soulless, evil, or even simply uncaring due to being overworked and underpaid. They will see the mentally ill as chores to be done and rid of, another number for their statistics, another variable for their studies, another paycheck to be made. But I believe there are some who genuinely do care and want to help. Unfortunately they can be hard to find.

I have had councilors who didn't care at all and just wanted me to add to their numbers so that they can look better and feel better. I had one psychiatrist who didn't seem to care on a personal level but was also the only person to objectively hear me out and treat me. I've had a therapist that didn't seem to care to hear or offer ways to treat me but still worries about me because I went MIA and their office will reach out to me from time to time, lol. I don't think it's completely black and white.

I also want to offer a different perspective because I'm not a psychiatrist but I do deal with similar people for my job and I have been the one in the chair. It's their lives, too. For those of us that do care, working with mentally ill/disabled or abused and traumatized people can be rewarding work but also so, so tiring and difficult. I've seen psychiatrists and therapists take their fair share of abuse, and even acting in a lesser capacity I have been abused as well. This is not to shame either side. It's the neutral and objective reality I see in the field. If a person cares, it can be hard to be abused by those that you want to help more than anything in the world. But we have no right to complain (and imo, we shouldn't complain in the first place) because those people have their reasons to distrust people in general. And for some people who should not be in the field, this makes them stop caring very quickly. Then there are some that enter with bad intentions from the start, or solely because they think they're going to make a lot of money. Way too many of those bad apples, so I want to affirm your experience and reassure you that this is not to diminish the horrors that you or anyone else has had to go through at the hands of mental health professionals. It's a shame that we will always be paychecks to a lot of them, but some of them inevitably will have to be genuine people who care. I'm dreading looking for help myself, if I ever make the decision to try recovering seriously again.

Regardless, I'm sorry about your bad experiences. I really wish more people went into the field of psychology and psychiatry with better intentions. But you're right, society is broken and we value money over people far too much. It really sucks. I'm sorry they don't give you the kind of care that you need and deserve. I hope you find the kind of peace or care that you're looking for, OP. I really do.

 

[Slark]

I also didn't have good experiences with psychiatrists, but after many years of suffering I found a good psychologist, who cares about me. She even gave me her phone number in case I needed it.