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Every negative emotion I have, I'm told to go to therapy.
Negative emotions are human!
Why have we, as a society, grown to fear them?
For most people, therapy is the only way to speak with a person who isn't like most of the commenters here.
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Every negative emotion I have, I'm told to go to therapy.
Negative emotions are human!
Why have we, as a society, grown to fear them?
No I agree with you, no emotions are negative. They all have a purpose, and are a personal message to you (not anyone else).
Boredom is a wind up machine for future prospects, that's where you develop your sense of who you are and want to be. And if you want to be a crazy inventor, grab a white lab coat, mess up your hair and get yourself some Boredom.
Anger can fire action to improve your situation. Or, you know if you happen to have a lot of money and no relatives, grab yourself a black rubber suit with wings.I could go on. But all emotions are a message for you from your sense systems. They're always reading the room, they're non verbal, emotional alarm systems are the way they tell you a room is on fire or full of flowers.
It's when you get stuck in an emotion that can be problematic. Rumination, or inability to emotionally process those emotions can cause life to feel super uncomfortable. And you can absolutely ask for help from someone who went to school to learn the mysterious ways of the emotional brain.
Emotions are kinda like a more sensitive and intricate alert system for danger approaching, as opposed to the more sledge hammer version provided by your fight or flight systems (all the same place).
If you don't notice your emotions, bottle or ignore your emotions, they feel unheard, and what does any alert system do if it's mildly sentient and feels like their danger alarts didn't get heard? They just get louder until they feel like you got the message.
So whilst absolutely all emotions are a full and complete part of the human experience and can be vital and essential to life's progression and an assistance, they can also start going defcon 5 over the toast being burnt, and therefore need some recalibration.
And then there's emotional immaturity....
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Every negative emotion I have, I'm told to go to therapy.
Negative emotions are human!
Why have we, as a society, grown to fear them?
Negative emotions are human, but often we arent well equipped to deal with them. If you can deal with them in a mature and responsible manner, congratulations! If not, therapy can get you to that point.
We dont need to journey through everything alone, often a helping hand is necessary to pull you forward.
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Actually no, it's actually cheaper to fix the world but the oligarchs don't want a happy world, they wouldn't have control
They're on the same team. Therapists are the oligarchy's footsoldiers.
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You're reading a lot into that comment, it's indeed not that common over here, but it isn't non-existing either. If people need/want therapy, it's available.
Edit: It's also not that common to talk about therapy over here. Not that it's taboo, but we don't like to over share our medical history.
Perhaps then you’re also reading into Americans obsession with therapy as being a [fad? Perhaps?], and less the reality that many Americans desperately need therapy and is actually a real, tangeable problem
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Perhaps then you’re also reading into Americans obsession with therapy as being a [fad? Perhaps?], and less the reality that many Americans desperately need therapy and is actually a real, tangeable problem
Americans actually need affordable housing, medical care, education, vacation time, workers' rights, etc. Therapy is how oligarchs want you to "solve" your problems.
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If you get 1,000 Mod Points you become a Moderator
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Therapy is a band aid for the alienation we feel under capitalism. We are an increasingly isolated society. It's every man for himself out there. We're not meant to live like this. We need other people. We need people to share our experiences and feelings with. Therapy fills that role very well. I have been in therapy for 6-7 years and it's helped me a ton. I would recommend it, but I'm also of the opinion that if we ever were able to make to communism, very few people would need therapy.
Therapy is a band aid for the alienation we feel under capitalism.
Therapy is the bandaid for the troubles facing all vegans.
Therapy is the bandaid for the unreasonable expectations that neurodivegents face.
Therapy is the bandaid for the products of systematic racism in Western nations.
Bro. This is not an infomercial. There are problems in the world and one aspect that touches you is not the explanation of all therapy. Jesus H.
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Every negative emotion I have, I'm told to go to therapy.
Negative emotions are human!
Why have we, as a society, grown to fear them?
We don't need therapy for every negative emotion. Some we might if they are persistent. But I agree, it is possible to rise to the occasion more often than not when it comes to dealing with our emotions and our current situation.
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For most people, therapy is the only way to speak with a person who isn't like most of the commenters here.
Does your own voice sound like commenters here? I've done a few sessions for issues I couldn't resolve, but IMO the vast, VAST majority of issues are not issues that require a professional touch.
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Therapy is like a good gym or (insert good phisical activity) for your brain… some pople exercise to correct a physical ailment, overweight, physio, etc… but anyone, no matter how healthy, would benefit from some regular gym time (read physical activity)
You seem to assume therpy is only good to fix a problem but that is a wrong assumption
More like personal trainer I think.
Plenty of people are psychologically healthy without a regular offload to a therapist. That doesn't mean that they couldn't benefit some or that others couldn't benefit a lot, but you don't need a therapist to have good mental health.
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I've listened to many a podcast ad. BetterHelp is for everyone. How can we become the people we're meant to be if we don't all have a therapist?
You dropped this "/s"
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Every negative emotion I have, I'm told to go to therapy.
Negative emotions are human!
Why have we, as a society, grown to fear them?
Now THAT’S an unpopular opinion! Here take my up—wait what sub is this??
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Yeah, nobody every talked about therapy around me until I got to college. Then everyone was therapy this therapy that. Then went to graduate school abroad... nobody talked about it. Moved back to the east coast usa in a very rich city... and therapy this therapy that.
it's super common if you're in the wealthy elite parts of the country and such, but not so much if you're not. but also it's being actively pushed as the solution to many problems, like social alienation, etc. that have more obvious solutions... like simple paying people more.
to me it's symbolic of how we refuse to like address so many things, and just offshore them or create some new pet industry of experts to address... what were handled by ordinary stuff in the past. like having a workplace where you belonged and got paid fair wages and your life had stability and opportunity as a given... etc.
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Some might find this an interesting opinion piece: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/opinion/mental-health-exercise-charity.html
there was another one just today about teenage girls and how they come to therapy with 20 self-diagnosis, and the therapist has to unpack all the therapy speak babble they have convinced themselves of because they just use it to obscure their own emotional experiences as systematic pathologies... rather than just like admit the felt bad about something.
it's getting way worse than pathologizing life, people can't even process basic relationships without filtering them through words like 'narcissist' and 'gas light' now. and everyone is convinced they have adhd rather than just admitting they are lazy or distracted sometimes.
and you can see lots of folks here pulling the 'everyone has to be in therapy all the time' nonsense...
if you ask me it's basically just a place holder for what religion did for people in generations past. you also notice how many people talk about it in mantras or like bible verses and just parrot/repeat the 'truths' of therapy... and assume that everyone is as traumatized as them... and if they aren't they are lying.
therapy culture has all this weird cognitive distortions. i've always felt uncomfortable how many therapy people like, need to justify their own journey through therapy by insisting everyone else who ever lived also has to go through with it... almost as if they are still desperately trying to 'normalize' themselves...
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For most people, therapy is the only way to speak with a person who isn't like most of the commenters here.
Beautifully said.
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Negative emotions are human, but often we arent well equipped to deal with them. If you can deal with them in a mature and responsible manner, congratulations! If not, therapy can get you to that point.
We dont need to journey through everything alone, often a helping hand is necessary to pull you forward.
Why do you suppose humans aren't well equipped to deal with negative emotions? Also, why do you suppose people have so many more negative emotions than we did in the past?
I'm nearing the half century mark. I work in education. I used to work in sales and retail. I've traveled to most corners of the planet. I read widely. I can attest, humans aren't well equipped to deal with negative emotions and people have so many more negative emotions than we did in the past. This is the Internet.
Also, I'm not shitting on therapy. Therapy is keeping the wheels on this bus I'm riding. That said, therapy often fails at addressing underlying causes precisely because the dreck we exist in — and are forced to wade through — drives us back to therapy.
"It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted in a profoundly sick society." ~ attributed to Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Every negative emotion I have, I'm told to go to therapy.
Negative emotions are human!
Why have we, as a society, grown to fear them?
Negative emotions are human!
Sounds like something a therapist would say. Actually, the usual line is something like "if there's a bear, negative emotions are very helpful". (It's always a bear; never a mugger or a giant rolling boulder. I don't make the rules)
It's hard to say over the internet, but either you're in a crowd where they overuse that line, or your emotions have grown to become unhelpful in your life.
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- Therapy is a healthy way to deal with all emotions, not just negative ones; there are plenty of positive emotions that can be unhealthy.
- It's not always, or even typically, fear that is moving people in the direction of therapy.
- Therapy is human as well.
You're stigmatizing something that's perfectly fine for people to seek out and suggest.
I see nothing wrong with therapy.
My problem is this generation's incessant belief that negative emotions are bad.
Case and point: Watch the new live action Avatar series. Season I. I haven't seen season II yet.
The only people with negative emotions are the bad guys. Everyone else is smiling constantly.
They're stigmatizing something that's perfectly fine to feel -- as long as you're actually feeling it.
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Therapy will help you develop healthy coping mechanisms to replace your childhood ones, which were likely unhealthy.
My childhood ones were healthier than my adult ones.
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