This is obviously fake and gay™, but PSA: if something similar happens to you IRL, it’s not therapy being useless, it’s therapist being an asshole and genuinely harmful to their patients.
The problem is you don’t know if your therapist might be an asshole before speaking to them.
You just look for a new one then right? I dunno how it works in other places around the world but we don’t have to sign up for an annual contract or anything here in Japan.
Generally speaking people who need mental health help are going to be more easily discouraged by a negative interaction than the general population even if they can afford therapy in the first place. In the US at least there’s also a shortage of therapists, meaning you might have to wait a long time to see anyone at all. And in my experience there are a lot more bad therapists than good ones (though assholes of this level are probably rare).
Honestly if it were me I’d just save myself the trouble, read a book on CBT and get some antidepressants. But that doesn’t work for everyone.
Yeah OP should say “1 therapist is useless”.
be me, formerly professional-level troll on WoW forums
my golden days are long gone, sadly
lightbulb.wav
what if I used all my experience and mastery to earn a living?
gonna open a therapist office
MFW I’m the worst therapist in the world and morons come and pay me to ask them why they are still virgins at 28
they always go home sobbing
[Insert some pepe]
Literal definition of “incel”.
she
”You can’t tell me you’ve honestly been trying this long and are still a virgin?”
There’s the problem, right there. Women marinate in so much attention they just cannot understand how men can want relationships and sex, yet not be able to get it. Their brains melt down when you demonstrate how fundamentally and radically different the male experience is.
Men: if you want true understanding, you have a much better chance of achieving that with a male therapist.
Yet another one for the “Lemmy isn’t sexist” collection.
Yet another one for the “Lemmy isn’t sexist” collection.
So true equality is “sexist”? Good to know.
The ultimate test of bigotry of any kind is to take the terms in contention and flip them. If it reads vastly different, you’ve found the bigotry in the one that is not rage-inducing.
Here we have a female therapist failing in her job with a male patient.
Now have a male therapist say the exact same thing to a female patient. See how that version plays out in public vs the first. Torches and pitchforks in favour of stringing up the male therapist, no?
The entire greentext was anti-male gender bigotry writ large, and an epic fail by the therapist to go beyond her gender-unique experiences in order to understand how wildly different the typical man’s experiences are.
I mean, she just assumed that because he wasn’t getting any, he must not be trying. And that if he wasn’t trying, it was because he didn’t want any of that. Her internalized bigotry couldn’t even process that many to most men rarely ever achieve the same level of sexual and relationship success that most women can trivially achieve. She couldn’t move beyond stamping all men with the same metrics of her own experiences, and then treating them like freaks when they failed to conform.
And as you have demonstrated, the cultivated ignorance of so-called “anti-sexist” people is absolutely stunning.
Therapists with specialties seem to dislike it when their client doesn’t fall under that umbrella. I had a therapist whose specialty was child sexual abuse. I told her I didn’t experience any and she defensively snapped “Are you sure? Maybe you don’t remember it!”. I did not stick with her for long.
What do you even supposed to say to that.
I’m pretty sure it never happened but I guess I could have forgotten, I guess, if you want.
