Therapists and especially psychiatrists are modern day priests who monitor you on behalf of the state. Your needs are considered, but secondary to the overall social scheme.
This is exactly and actually true. I want to give a million thumbs up. It's something that may be collectively beneficial for society (to slightly dope up weird people with drugs that are nauseating at higher doses so people can't ever get so addicted they do stuff like commit burglaries to buy more psych meds) but is often harmful for the individual actually seeing the psychiatrist and even in the cases of real symptoms rather than ennui (someone actively cycling with bipolar disorder) the symptom reductions from seeing a psychiatrist is often not worth the cost in terms of time, money, effort, and side-effect compared to symptom reduction.
Worst of all, once one becomes part of that system, it's not easy to extricate oneself because often the expense and burden of treatments (locked care costs, drug costs, visit costs, the fact that if you seem slow and on tranquilizers people may not hire you) result in poverty while others around saying you "must" continue treatment, with veiled threats underneath all admonitions to comply.
Additionally, psych meds make people stupider, both in the immediate and long-term, and so if someone sees a psychiatrist feeling depressed and suicidal, they will end up depressed and stupid if they don't find a way out of being depressed, making it easy to convince their loved ones that they MUST continue treatment (because look at how fucking stupid they are).
Most horribly of all, society often says those in that system must bare some of the financial costs of treatment in certain circumstances, despite the benefits going to society and the horrible side-effects going to the individual. From my experience, there is no misery quite like side-effect misery, and I had experiences with horrible side-effect misery during locked care, and being threatened with worse (and potentially physically dangerous consequences) if I didn't endure the side-effects.
Trusting psychiatry was among the worst mistakes of my life and I thought that because it was a "science" and was enshrined by society as something good that it couldn't possibly be almost entirely a fraud, but for people who are really suffering, it seems like in most cases is a fraud and trap. If you're someone who suddenly gets divorced and need 6 months of Prozac and that happens to work for you, then psychiatry will be your 6 month savior. If you're someone with actual long-term issues, psychiatry is a pit of despair waiting for you fall into, with psychiatrists lurking at the bottom, waiting for the next oblivious gullible trusting distracted person to fall in and hurl to the bottom.
