What does Sup Forums think about seeking psychological help from professionals?
Are people who do seek it weak betas who failed to life.exe, or is it highly dependent on factors outside our power (early childhood trauma etc.)? And should everyone seek it if possible?
The weak faggots are the ones who think they're too STRONK to seek help and instead try to solve their problems with alcohol and by beating their children.
Life is a weird place and it's absolutely noraml to get a lot of things wrong. And if you have a chance to meet someone to straighten you up, use it. Also, clean up your room. And stop telling lies.
If you hear voices and see small green things, go and ahead seek help.
For everything else, just talk to your friends and relatives.
I haven't had many tell me they're too 'strong' to seek help, but I did hear some saying that psychologists and mental health professionals in general aren't very helpful, but I would personally rather go to them than to friends and family for reasons of privacy. It's definitely not an option to go through these things alone though.
It's bullshit and not a pure science. The real travesty of psychology and psychiatry is people have bought into the idea that it's healthier to prattle on to a dispassionate observer than it is to confront problems head on. Even worse is that people think a weekly psychiatry visit is all they need to be mentally healthy instead of relying on family, friends, community or church to give a balanced social life.
The prevalence of psychiatry is yet another symptom of a culture stripped of any cohesion or meaning.
Yeah nigger that's why you have got places like image board and reddit.
The decrease of social and familial bonds are almost directly correlated to an increase of mental health problems, but I don't think family is always an option, and it's tricky to use the term friends here, because I can only imagine a very close friend to be able to carry out that role, and not everyone has that kind of relationship with another person.
And as a second point, "to confront problems head on" is easier said than done. Lots of people seeking help have hard time identifying the problem itself, dealing only with its symptoms. Trying to fix something you don't fully understand may create more problems than fix them.
Soon to be Masters level psychologist here.
This field has completely been taken over by women, imagine having a highly theoretical and experimental scientific field dealing with behavior, emotions and mental processes only to have it hijacked by the most unstable people in society in those regards.
Most psychologists now a days have gone with the equality delusion and the gender hysteria real psychologists like Philippe Rushton were shunned for speaking on real evolutionary psychology and anthropology. Take a look at the lack of experimentation and at how little research is conducted anymore and that which still goes on is fucking useless, but while psychology at its core is a really honest science which aims to be objective and empirical some (((elements))) that seek to advance certain agendas have taken control, the same for many other fields, there's still good therapy out there, I would just consult my power level when picking out a therapist.
So what's your take on the mental illness diagnoses being handed around?
Again it's a highly experimental field, many diagnoses are as accurate as they can be for what we know and understand, others have to do with insurance companies, believe me you can treat a person for a not otherwise specified psychotic disorder and save yourself some trouble and paperwork or general insurance Stupidity by simply writing down a diagnosis of schizophrenia. But that said diagnosis is often tricky, theres many overlapping symptoms. Realize we've no imaging exams that can help us, it's all observational and patient feedback centered, the medical doctor can see your collapsed lung, I can't see your depression.
So anything that doesn't fall under the usual list is Schizo?
What the hell should a normal person's neurological makeup be then?
Prayer or a good Lutheran preacher.
Well no not everything is schizo, there's neurosis spectrum and psychosis spectrum, neurosis is where therapy really makes an impact. Psychosis spectrum is where drugs are pretty much essential and therapy can be used also.
Average neuroanatomy has a lot to do with different factors. Anything that doesn't fall under a diagnosis criteria will be referred to as x spectrum or NOS (not otherwise specified) or atypical or idiopathic. At least here in America.
So what do you do when an investigation on your patient's psyche drives them insane instead of helping to resolve the issue?
I was a fucking mess in and out of therapy my whole life
Now i have a job and i feel ok.
Only thing i would want to go back in for is to fix my dick since i ruined it with porn
It's not so bad here in America there's a lot of ethical guidelines to prevent abuse, nobody goes insane from any treatment I've ever been part of at worst they won't get better. I originally just meant to say that this is a highly experimental field and that men should still be leading it, I feel women leading it will be disastrous for everyone.
Long road ahead
Freud was a fraud. Psychology died when Wilhelm Reich was jailed and his works banned by the (((FDA))). The orgone pill is a hard one to swallow.
If I had 20/60 vision I'd visit an eye doctor vs. trying to will my way to 20/20 vision.
If I started fapping to Hillary photos at 3am I'd see a shrink. No shame in seeking professional help.
It's all about confronting the false beliefs you hold. If you have the ability to objectively confront and can red-pill yourself then awesome, if not they're people that can assist you with your goals.
>tfw recently had to do a psychiatric assessment
>tfw doc declared me mentally sound
It's almost like nationalism and memes aren't a mental illness. But if you are legitimately super depressed or hearing voices, I would say that it's certainly a good thing to do. Ultimately with the former, you have to kind of muddle your own way along with it and essentially figure out what kind of outlets you can have for depressive feelings (writing, art, jacking off really hard, etc). With the latter...probably going to get dosed up to your eyeballs.
>You can pray away the delusions, hallucinations, and total misunderstanding of how you are supposed to perceive reality
Normies believe anything. I at one point believe 100% that the cartels were after me if a told anyone about this grand plan I had in my head. I then got medicated and the SSRI's threw me into 7 months of Hallucinations who told me if I went out at night-time, I would be eaten by large creatures that I saw and thought 100% were real.
I didn't question any of this. I just assumed it was normal, then I stopped taking meds and my hypomania and delusions came back and the hallucinations went away. I'm conflicted, might go back on meds, might not as I am still in delusional happiness.
Imagine having multiple sessions of one hour each, where you get to talk about your inner thoughts with a 10/10 MILF, meanwhile she stares you into the eyes.
This is my reason. And a pretty fucking pathetic one, too. But IDC
psychiatry is a giant politically motivated scam set up by that guy's nephew Edward Bernays
>If you hear voices and see small green things, go and ahead seek help.
before you do please share some of that shit with me
>>psychology died with Wilhelm Reich
>not with Carl G. Jung
dude boxes lmao
wasted 7 years of my life seeing various therapists and psychiatrists trying differentapproaches and occasionally medicines for being depressed/unmotivated/directionless, it's a fucking scam that justifies and more or less enables your bad habits so that you remain a perennial revenue stream for them
it'd probably be better to talk to some sort of religious figure for guidance, kikeoanalysis is bullshit
i have social anxiety, now is ok, but 7 years ago it was a problem because i used to sweat a lot and get nervous while talking to people. i went to a psychiatrist and he have me antidepressants and beta blockers. they did work, and then i got a problem, but the problem was that those pills also messed up with my libido really bad. even after i stopped taking them, it was a mess for a while (PE sometimes, erection dysfunction other times). that had a big part on the mess my relationship became after and my eventual breakup. so i think it is a difficult choice. perhaps mine was a special case, but who knows, i heard a lot of people complaining as well. now i don't have much anxiety interacting with people but i think the solution was that i worked hard on becoming a better person, so now my inferiority complex has less justifications.
Go to see someone trained in an atheistic religion whose objective is to get you hooked on big pharma to solve a problem they're totally convinced you have? $50,000 later you'll realize you were a bigger sucker than a scientologist.
It really depends on professional or (((professional))) it is.
Psychoanalysis by itself is almost useless, but it's good as a diagnostic tool to uncover what kind of shit in your head causes your symptoms. Modern (cognitive) psychology says that your problems are caused by your automatic inflexible thinking. And they are, in turn, caused by your environment taking a dump in your head in the past.
Incredibly dangerous.
See, I don't need that shit.
The Coppermen of universe 24 are coming either way from the northeastern quantum breach of this galaxy during the next Baha'i year and then it will be over.
So yeah, I don't need some dumb tertiary government undercover blackops agent and possible psycloak user to tell me all is going well while sending me unix waves, I know better than that.
Well, for one thing, stay away from SSRIs as monotherapy if you have bipolar disorder. It's like trying to treat a heart condition with amphetamines. Look into either a SSRI/antipsychotic combo or something like an anticonvulsant.