Why is everyone obsessed with therapy

[wizblizz@lemmy.world]

Nah, would be a waste of time, clearly.

[scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech]

Great response.

I have a family member who gets angry very often. Things make him mad, I get it. The emotion isn't bad. However, he then starts yelling at everyone around and becomes hard to be near him. Anger isn't why he needs therapy. Yelling at those he supposedly loves instead of communicating why he's upset is why.

[ki4jgt@feddit.org]

Clearly.

[maeve@kbin.earth]

You don't even have to do that, there are free CBT, DBT, and shadow work exercises that are printable.

[ki4jgt@feddit.org]

My question then is, who helps those people?

If it is not the job others to attempt to "mend" broken hearts, whose is it?

[aburrito@sh.itjust.works]

We can have all these things. Many therapists connect their patients to resources or even are volunteers in their community. I don’t see how these are exclusive

But also therapists are doctors, “people need housing not medical care” basically. We need all of them, holistically, every single resource we need to survive includes medical specialists. Would you say don’t go to an oncologist because the oligarchs want to die of cancer? What even is this logic

Also the oligarchs need therapy too for their psychopathy but their power systems wouldn’t allow someone non syncophantic in their circles so 🤷‍♀️ guess we all suffer cause of that too

[captainlezbian@lemmy.world]

Good to know. You can also probably find books describing techniques at the library.

I'm not saying self administered CBT alone fixed me, but it took me from unstable to manageable, and from there practice and experience got me pretty far. Also lsd helped.

So yeah, if you're too poor for therapy (and medicaid doesn't cover it in your state) self administer CBT/DBT then when you're more stable if you don't have a family history of psychosis pop a few tabs of acid

[wizblizz@lemmy.world]

You've passed the bar for 3rd grade reading comprehension. Well done.

[ki4jgt@feddit.org]

Yay!!! Do I get a graduation party and trophy?

[maeve@kbin.earth]

I was in and out of available low-cost, therapies, often with poor or outright bad therapists, for a long time. It was sort of a convergence of factors that healed me, beginning with someone who said something that prompted me to look up something from early childhood behavioral psych from decades earlier that no therapist mentioned: attachment theory, and from there another year or so of floundering my way along, until I was able to access good telehealth therapy, from a good therapist, who attended a horrible school, and finished out months later, in person.

Yes, there have been ups and downs since, and a couple of times I almost spun out, but was able to catch myself until I was able to get privacy and time to do the work while actually feeling the feelings. The point is, if you really want it, you'll do whatever it takes as often as possible.