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If you could get back cash and time in exchange for all prior mental health benefits, would you?

  • Yes, I have received minimal to no benefit from "mental health" at great cost and wasted time

    Votes: 2 40.0%
  • Yes, I received mininal benefit and the time spent could have been better used

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Yes, I received some benefits but it was not worth the cost and side effects

    Votes: 1 20.0%
  • I'm not sure, I received some benefit at some loss of time and money, but it may have kept me alive

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • No, I would definitely have had a worse existence without medication and therapy etc

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • No, medication and therapy may not have improved my life, but I'm glad I did it for other reasons

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • No, because at this point I am so apathetic I don't care

    Votes: 1 20.0%
  • Not Applicable, I have never had medication or therapy that cost money or used up time

    Votes: 1 20.0%

  • Total voters
    5
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claracatchingthebus

Member
Jun 22, 2025
10
I often think that people go to therapy and take medication and the minimal benefit received is not worth the cost and resources spent.

I personally wonder what my life would have been like if I had never gone on any medication or never seen any mental health specialists. A lot of time and money was used on that stuff, probably well over $10,000 if not much much more. I don't have a car or own a home now. I wish I had that amount.
I don't really feel like either medications or therapy provided any benefit and wish I had just existed and either lived or died, but not depleted the resources of myself and others while enriching charlitan snake oil salesman, who offer lies about symptom relief when the costs are huge and symptom relief is minimal. Do others feel this way?