Thread 33541048

Are psychology, mental health, psychiatric meds, mental illness diagnoses, and therapy a meme?

>>33541048 (OP)
Didn't used to be. Not it's becoming more and more of a meme. Time was it meant 'study of the soul' as is the translation of the word 'psychology'. But you know how the world works now, no soul. So all your life problems are just chemicals bro, here have some chemicals to offset the chemicals.

>>33541048 (OP)
The only constant is that people who need meds latch onto the opinion that meds are bad or that they do not need meds.

The reality is that all these meds only mask the symptoms. They don't fix the fucking root. But doctors will say you should take this for 5 years and we can slowly decrease the dose.
Most of these meds works by changing our moods. Moods contribute to habbit. Habbit makes lifestyle. And boom your life is fixed. Meds alone can do nothing. You can eat meds for 10 years and still be a fucking retard.

>>33541086
Hello there anon, I am a modern therapist. How does that make you feel? Mhm. Mhm. Okay, I see. And how does that make you feel?

Oh? You witnessed your father's affair as a child. I see. Mhm. Now how does that make you feel? Have you done the homework we agreed on last session? Did you play the 'mindfulness' video I sent to you as per our last email?

The one with the whale songs and the sounds of whales in the ocean? Did you remember to breathe? Wipe your ass? And it still did not reconcile your fucked up family life?

Hmm I see. Well here is the prescription for medications to numb the shit out of you. Enjoy.May the force be with you and please pay me $200 for this hour session.

>>33541048 (OP)
psychology isn't a meme but it's oh exploitable because it's so subjective, this is why psychiatry exists to sell medication

>>33541048 (OP)
They really were a meme up til 1970. CBT changed the game though and for the first time there was real empirical evidence of therapies helping people. Now they can cure 12 DSM diagnoses.

>>33541048 (OP)
Yes

>>33541048 (OP)
Some of them are.

But I think that too much emphasis is placed on caring for the person, and not enough on their impact on society. I would bring back the old doctrine of legally confining the mentally ill to asylums. Just doing that would:

1. Relieve millions of families of the burden of caring for those people.
2. Solve most of the problem of homelessness.
3. Solve much of the problem of substance abise.
4. Reduce crime drastically.
5. As a result of all the above, make cities cleaner, safer, nicer, more livable places, without the "hostile architecture" we have to put up with such as window sills with spikes on them so no-one can sit on them.

>>33541048 (OP)
For me it is. Does not help at all. I talk for and hour and leave the session still feeling like shit. Meds just make me numb. Maybe I just haven't found the right professional? My psychologist says it is a process. Maybe I need more time?

>>33541094
Hmm ok. Have you thought about why your dad touched your penis and whether it was your fault?