Therapy is utterly fake and gay and at this point I'm skeptical about the concept of "mental health" entirely. After all your brain is a physical organ and if that isn't working right that is a "health" problem, no need to pretend the mind is a separate entity from the body.
Men need the gym, the woods, the mats, the shop, the church - but mostly to get the hell away from women.
100% agree with the exposure therapy, has helped me get my arachnophobia in check except I did that to myself without a therapist. If you're so inclined you can help yourself in a lot of ways, the biggest hurdle is always gonna be you first.
Almost like therapy is a thing you need to be an active participant in and work on, instead of an hour long "sit down and vent" session.
But therein lies the problem. The first one is hard and most people won't want to do it (and most therapists doing it filter people out to avoid wasting their time), while the second is literally a money printer with an infinite clientele.
Shit Better Help proved that you can be outed as an outright scam and people still line up to throw money at you so they can say "I do therapy, so I'm better than you!"
How does it deal with genetic abnormalities though? If you're introverted, 50% genetic, no amount of therapy is going to make you extroverted. Same with lifting weights at the gym, it won't make you an extrovert either.
There what helps imho: fake it. I am super outgoing when having to talk to people, no one would expect me to be introverted. This is probably what behavioral therapy could do to you. I also think you can work on this yourself but as usual the biggest obsticle in this all is you yourself first.
Therapy has not really helped me, just felt like talking to someone and that's it. Most of my issues I have gotten rid of myself by going out, facing my fears and doing a tiny bit more every day. As you said, gym won't help you in this, doesn't work for everyone at least. It does give you a boost in confidence which is tremendously useful if you wanna get more outgoing. You'll never not be introverted though, contact with too many people still drains me and I need my alone time occasionally. I am no recluse though like I used to be.
The problem with faking it is that you have to keep faking it and lying, potentially for the rest of your life. That gets exhausting over time and eventually they get found out and the fall out does not end well. You do you but I personally would not recommend anyone act fake.
I don't think being introverted is something you need to 'cure', as long as it is not detrimentally impacting your life. I only really have one friend my own age IRL, and we don't do an awful lot together, but I get enough socialisation through work and church to where I don't feel like I'm being devoured by my own thoughts every day (like I used to). I feel like I have enough of a connection with the world.
You find a level of social interaction that suits you, and as long as you can still hold a decent conversation and interact with society in a sensible manner, I don't think you need to push yourself to be a people person. Heck, that might even do more damage than good.
Social interaction can be learned like any other skill.
The hard part is finding situations to dip your toe in because jumping all the way is too scary at first.
My recommendation is talking with old people. They are happy anyone pays attention to them and are patient about waiting for you to organize your thoughts before responding.
Not from a technical perspective. All the issues I can think of arise out of ethics boards and the inherent flaw of having humans administrate the study/tests.
calling something that works "therapy" doesn't legitimize the rest of the quackery that is called the same thing
cognitive behavioral therapy used to be called "listen to your father and do what he says even if you don't want to, because he knows better than you" (substitute other trusted male figure if father isn't present)
exposure therapy is freaking obvious and once again standard practice of good fathers in dealing with squeamish kids
Therapy and the fields that teach it have been heavily corrupted by feminism and leftism in general. I took an intro to sociology class and, once you get past the interesting intro chapters on the field, it was basically just leftist talking points. America bad. White bad. Man bad. We need "equality" so let's pay housewives 150k/year to clean their own toilet. You name it, it was discussed in the class.
"Soft" sciences were easy targets for marxist infiltration since you can bullshit your way through everything as long as the person reviewing/grading your work is a political ally.
Therapy is utterly fake and gay and at this point I'm skeptical about the concept of "mental health" entirely. After all your brain is a physical organ and if that isn't working right that is a "health" problem, no need to pretend the mind is a separate entity from the body.
Men need the gym, the woods, the mats, the shop, the church - but mostly to get the hell away from women.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy has statistically-significant results.
Exposure therapy cures phobias.
Not all of the discipline is qwack, but ''let's lay down and talk about our fee-feels'' feminine ''therapy'', that's a scam.
100% agree with the exposure therapy, has helped me get my arachnophobia in check except I did that to myself without a therapist. If you're so inclined you can help yourself in a lot of ways, the biggest hurdle is always gonna be you first.
Almost like therapy is a thing you need to be an active participant in and work on, instead of an hour long "sit down and vent" session.
But therein lies the problem. The first one is hard and most people won't want to do it (and most therapists doing it filter people out to avoid wasting their time), while the second is literally a money printer with an infinite clientele.
Shit Better Help proved that you can be outed as an outright scam and people still line up to throw money at you so they can say "I do therapy, so I'm better than you!"
How does it deal with genetic abnormalities though? If you're introverted, 50% genetic, no amount of therapy is going to make you extroverted. Same with lifting weights at the gym, it won't make you an extrovert either.
There what helps imho: fake it. I am super outgoing when having to talk to people, no one would expect me to be introverted. This is probably what behavioral therapy could do to you. I also think you can work on this yourself but as usual the biggest obsticle in this all is you yourself first.
Therapy has not really helped me, just felt like talking to someone and that's it. Most of my issues I have gotten rid of myself by going out, facing my fears and doing a tiny bit more every day. As you said, gym won't help you in this, doesn't work for everyone at least. It does give you a boost in confidence which is tremendously useful if you wanna get more outgoing. You'll never not be introverted though, contact with too many people still drains me and I need my alone time occasionally. I am no recluse though like I used to be.
The problem with faking it is that you have to keep faking it and lying, potentially for the rest of your life. That gets exhausting over time and eventually they get found out and the fall out does not end well. You do you but I personally would not recommend anyone act fake.
I don't think being introverted is something you need to 'cure', as long as it is not detrimentally impacting your life. I only really have one friend my own age IRL, and we don't do an awful lot together, but I get enough socialisation through work and church to where I don't feel like I'm being devoured by my own thoughts every day (like I used to). I feel like I have enough of a connection with the world.
You find a level of social interaction that suits you, and as long as you can still hold a decent conversation and interact with society in a sensible manner, I don't think you need to push yourself to be a people person. Heck, that might even do more damage than good.
Social interaction can be learned like any other skill.
The hard part is finding situations to dip your toe in because jumping all the way is too scary at first.
My recommendation is talking with old people. They are happy anyone pays attention to them and are patient about waiting for you to organize your thoughts before responding.
None of these therapies are capable of validation by double-blind placebo-controlled trials.
TBF its difficult to have a placebo in this field
Not from a technical perspective. All the issues I can think of arise out of ethics boards and the inherent flaw of having humans administrate the study/tests.
calling something that works "therapy" doesn't legitimize the rest of the quackery that is called the same thing
cognitive behavioral therapy used to be called "listen to your father and do what he says even if you don't want to, because he knows better than you" (substitute other trusted male figure if father isn't present)
exposure therapy is freaking obvious and once again standard practice of good fathers in dealing with squeamish kids
Therapy and the fields that teach it have been heavily corrupted by feminism and leftism in general. I took an intro to sociology class and, once you get past the interesting intro chapters on the field, it was basically just leftist talking points. America bad. White bad. Man bad. We need "equality" so let's pay housewives 150k/year to clean their own toilet. You name it, it was discussed in the class.
"Soft" sciences were easy targets for marxist infiltration since you can bullshit your way through everything as long as the person reviewing/grading your work is a political ally.