My unpopular opinion is that therapy is so overrated

Question

Sure it’s works on some people for sometime but it’s not the holy grail people nowadays are making it to be and I say that as someone who’s been in therapy

Danielle · Accepted Answer

I mean the only person who can help you is you, so if it's not working then you're not being receptive or you require a different kind of help, it's not their job to fix you, it's their job to give you the tools and ideas you need to fix yourself

Idrees · Answer

Say that to people who've seen real trauma

Dheif · Answer

Another unpopular opinion: it’s become too romanticized. It’s like any treatment method, it works on some and others may not find it effective.

Thahil · Answer

In the end, its only YOU that is able to help you.

Aubrix · Answer

EXACTLY. My parents tossed me in therapy at 3 1/2 and forced me to go until my late teens. I tried again through my early to mid 20s which was when I discovered it was all bs xD therapy isn't the end all be all most want you to believe it is.

Mimy · Answer

The work should be done from the inside and not thinking that's someone from the outside should be fixing you on the inside. The therapist is just points out things that we need to look at and see if that's what giving us the issue

Jakob · Answer

have you ruled out the hypothesis that your therapist was bad?

Tony · Answer

Therapy is just a tool, you heal yourself x find which tool is best for you n fill your boots x

Sergio · Answer

A friend has been going to therapy (different therapists) for +5 years. She's not visibly improven much ever since she started and has really put me off from trying. I know, probably is her lack of commitment/will to change, but I'm pretty sure that the therapist is still grabbing her money easily

Josh · Answer

I get to find out for myself in the coming weeks 🙃

Kornelia · Answer

Thank you! This is what I was trying to tell my friend who was considering it. You’re better off spending that money on a hobby to help you relax- it’s more fun and worthwhile than sitting in a chair for an hour and paying £100 to feel sorry for yourself.

Sergio · Answer

Thank you! Whenever I spoke "against" therapy, people made me feel like I deserve capital punishment... It's mind-boggling how in the era of respect, inclusion and so on, you can't have a different opinion about anything 🤷‍♂️

Andrea · Answer

Therapy is not itself a solution to improve, but a war to find that solution out.

Then it doesn't ensure guaranteed improvements, they may depends on several variables, for examples:
* how much you are committed to do what the therapist says (and it's not that easy sometimes) and if you believe in what he/she says 
* the seriousness of the problem and how long you have been living with it
* if the therapy strategy is effective to solve your problem, because there are several and maybe there is one more effective than others

Paul · Answer

I agree. Not everyone wantsI to talk.i hated to talk about anything but that is literally all that was on offer.

Ash · Answer

It's more placebo, when u train as a therapist u realise they don't know anything except techniques to keep the conversation going, theoretical models they can use to keep conversations going, and how to ask questions to make it seem like Ur uncovering things that will help. Sure qualified psychologists can do official diagnosis but that's just the medical industry playing big papa so they can sell u stuff that they won't let u get yourself. Of course therapists can't tell u this, even your friends or they'd be out of a high paying job. Without the placebo of thinking they know something when they really don't know much Ur basically just paying 80 to 120 for some empathy and to listen to your bs for an hour in a safe and no traumatic way and most can't even do that well. So, despite what society thinks I personally think you're right.

There is one caveat though, very rarely there will be someone in the industry who has a passion for the subject and may know or understand more than what the academia teaches in the profession, but that's little to do with the profession itself and we have those people to credit for their own insights, intuition and wisdom when it comes to helping people heal

Marc · Answer

Maybe the subject has unrealistic expectations or is beyond repair 🤯

My unpopular opinion is that therapy is so overrated

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Say that to people who've seen real trauma

Another unpopular opinion: it’s become too romanticized. It’s like any treatment method, it works on some and others may not find it effective.

In the end, its only YOU that is able to help you.

The work should be done from the inside and not thinking that's someone from the outside should be fixing you on the inside. The therapist is just points out things that we need to look at and see if that's what giving us the issue

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