What they go to can barely even qualify as therapy, its just affirmation sessions that they are special and different.
You can tell how low of a bar it is, by the fact that they think BetterHelp, and other online counseling services, are a viable product that is able to keep in business despite its controversies.
Therapy in general is a means to an end, not a qualifier. If you don't have a goal to achieve and are making steps towards doing so in each handful of session, then its a useless money sink. Anyone who thinks "maintenance" therapy is a thing is trying to sell you something, usually that they aren't broken and wasting money. It might have value on the far end after you've gotten somewhere and have a strong rapport with your therapist, but few people reach that point. Worse, they instead "become friends" with them instead.
Most importantly. One of the cornerstones of therapy is the secrecy of it. There are so many laws and rules about it that it boggles the mind. If you are constantly talking about it and what you are doing in it, you are showing everyone how little you are getting out of it. As if it was working, you wouldn't need the accolades and applause from your clear mental defects.
Maintenance therapy is not in any way better than praying or journaling. There is merit in collecting your thoughts. Anyone who is not functionally retarded can profit from collecting their thoughts, seeing some pattern and just making connections. Now, that doesn't work on 70 IQ retards who spent decades drugged up or other NPC cretins, but whatever.
It's just sad that yet again, we took something that was for free and something you could do easily for yourself with minimal effort and made it into a business. I'm not trying to rant about capitalism or anything, I just find it funny how leftists prop up something like this.
Then again, they preach about self care, meanwhile they think actually being self-sufficient is white supremacy and sexism and heteronormative oppression.
Iirc back when it was a brand new field the psychs were saying exactly that. Lit. that it could be a means of providing the benefits that come with confession to a non-confessional (be it because Protestant or otherwise) population.
I've got a degree in it and was able to be licensed back in the day (I'm too out of date with my "continued education" to still be), so I can speak with experience that there is validity and value in it.
The problem is that 28/30 students in every class learning to be a Therapist is a dumb girl who is barely qualified to work a cash register, let alone help people with mental and emotional issues. So the quality of the industry has dropped to rock bottom to a point where its barely worth supporting.
Its like comic books. We all know a character or a storyline that is amazing and proof that a comic/character can work, but the modern crop is so painfully bad that nobody cares.
What they go to can barely even qualify as therapy, its just affirmation sessions that they are special and different.
You can tell how low of a bar it is, by the fact that they think BetterHelp, and other online counseling services, are a viable product that is able to keep in business despite its controversies.
Therapy in general is a means to an end, not a qualifier. If you don't have a goal to achieve and are making steps towards doing so in each handful of session, then its a useless money sink. Anyone who thinks "maintenance" therapy is a thing is trying to sell you something, usually that they aren't broken and wasting money. It might have value on the far end after you've gotten somewhere and have a strong rapport with your therapist, but few people reach that point. Worse, they instead "become friends" with them instead.
Most importantly. One of the cornerstones of therapy is the secrecy of it. There are so many laws and rules about it that it boggles the mind. If you are constantly talking about it and what you are doing in it, you are showing everyone how little you are getting out of it. As if it was working, you wouldn't need the accolades and applause from your clear mental defects.
Maintenance therapy is not in any way better than praying or journaling. There is merit in collecting your thoughts. Anyone who is not functionally retarded can profit from collecting their thoughts, seeing some pattern and just making connections. Now, that doesn't work on 70 IQ retards who spent decades drugged up or other NPC cretins, but whatever.
It's just sad that yet again, we took something that was for free and something you could do easily for yourself with minimal effort and made it into a business. I'm not trying to rant about capitalism or anything, I just find it funny how leftists prop up something like this.
Then again, they preach about self care, meanwhile they think actually being self-sufficient is white supremacy and sexism and heteronormative oppression.
Iirc back when it was a brand new field the psychs were saying exactly that. Lit. that it could be a means of providing the benefits that come with confession to a non-confessional (be it because Protestant or otherwise) population.
Therapy in general is just more of the snake oil that modern healthcare sells, only this time they don’t even bother to give you snake oil.
I've got a degree in it and was able to be licensed back in the day (I'm too out of date with my "continued education" to still be), so I can speak with experience that there is validity and value in it.
The problem is that 28/30 students in every class learning to be a Therapist is a dumb girl who is barely qualified to work a cash register, let alone help people with mental and emotional issues. So the quality of the industry has dropped to rock bottom to a point where its barely worth supporting.
Its like comic books. We all know a character or a storyline that is amazing and proof that a comic/character can work, but the modern crop is so painfully bad that nobody cares.