Venting Therapy just looks good on paper

[Gaga786]

I've had it. I was in therapy since the age of 13,(im 20 now)and I have wasted literally hundreds of dollars for nothing. I still feel shitty.its literally like were paying someone to pretend like they care. In reality: they don't give a shit about us. I get it– it's human nature. My therapist felt like my thoughts are black and white. No, it's seeing the way the world is and how it works. How can I ever be happy while my abusers are walking free, there is no justice for me. Yet im being told to close my eyes and not be vigilant of everything.Its like that saying close your eyes and pretend everything is fine so the lion, thats infront of you, doesn't eat you. No one can force me to stay here, and of course the typical response: if you feel you're harming yourself or having suicidal thoughts, admit yourself so you are locked away. She's so deluded as if she says this like she's memorised this from some textbook. She's forgetting that psych wards cost a lot of money, given we're living in a third world country at the brink of bankruptcy, as if they even help
Each day I feel like running away from this world

 

[81-Z@P@D]

You are right, there are no quick fixes for systemic issues. One way I cope with this is by thinking how those who wronged me might be happy about my suicide. I will live, to spite them, and perhaps someday collect my dues.

 

[Gaga786]

You are right, there are no quick fixes for systemic issues. One way I cope with this is by thinking how those who wronged me might be happy about my suicide. I will live, to spite them, and perhaps someday collect my dues.

yes, I cope in a similar way. Everyone might feel immensely elated about my death

 

[FuneralCry]

To me therapy is a scam and is a waste of time, it's just a way to profit from people's suffering. And of course it sounds so horrific being locked inside the prison that is the psych ward.

 

[Rogue Proxy]

The only paper that therapy would look good on is this:


Don't forget to flush!

 

[6MillionWaystoDie]

Unfortunately there's way more horrible therapists than good ones.

The worthwhile ones actually have great understanding about why we want to die and can only offer fake perceived comfort. No "help". They may mean it and mean well overall, but to me its a waste of time and money because it does nothing.

There are a handful of people who are helped by them. I think most of those people are simple, with simple life views who likely wouldn't have truly off'ed themselves anyway.

Those that had a failed attempt and are truly "cured" of it often practice mental self-trickery. I don't subscribe to that sh*t! They often suck up Tony Robbins form of garbage mental trickery which i see as a disservice to self.

 

[Duochrome-Seahorse]

Although I don't entirely regret going to therapy, it was anything but helpful in the long run. Since I have to consider the personality of my therapist vs mine, I never seem to feel like I'm truly being myself around them. And when I am myself I'm institutionalized.

That and the plethora of worksheets and "homework" doesn't help either. It felt as if I'm being dismissed and I ranted about that to them multiple times, but they either just give me medications or just keep giving me worksheets.

I feel like since therapy is their job they just do everything by the book and don't actually care if I recover or not. At the end of the day, they're still getting paid, and I'm still disabled. I don't think anything they tell me to work on will make me any more or less valuable or stable as a person.

 

[Sparx]

Therapists don't seem to understand that their are some things/people/situations that simply can't be 'fixed'. To them everything is fixable with meds and/or therapy. None of them have gone through the traumas that we have.

 

[ZeroSuitDoomgirl]

I personally don't think therapy is entirely useless, but it definitely just doesn't work for some people. I think the biggest problem with therapy problem it that it's touted as such a one-size-fits-all solution, to the point where if you have any mental health issues, people just assume you haven't gone. It infuriates me to no end when people tell me something along the lines of "you're doing therapy wrong, if you just open up it will work", as if that didn't fucking occur to me