Every year, colleges graduate more and more licensed therapists and psychiatrists. With an overabundance of therapists, they need to work to find a way to justify their professional existence. So they diagnose more and more people with make-believe problems and disorders. While there are real people with real mental health problems out there, there simply aren't enough real ones around to keep the money rolling in for the therapy industry.
When a therapist tells a client they have a diagnosis like ADHD, bipolar, depression, generalized anxiety, or anger problems. This can plant a seed in the mind of the client and potentially make the client actually believe these problems are truly there even if they are not. The patient believes they have problems via the placebo effect, and develop long term insecurities that keep them coming back to the therapist's office. Therapists and psychiatrists get kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies to prescribe such psychotropic drugs to fight these supposed problems. Most of the time the patient doesn't even need these drugs to solve whatever 1st world problem or insecurity they are experiencing. These drugs always bring on a slew of negative side effects that harm the client another way. All these therapists and doctors are from the same school of thought; their textbooks are bankrolled by big pharma as well. Therapists are not prophets. Many of them have problems similar to yours, so why look to them as a wiser and higher being than yourself? Some are likely cheating on their spouses and doing narcotics on the weekend.
I hate seeing good people who are successful in their professional and family life, constantly fall victim to these mental health scams. My friend who is a very successful designer who's far more talented than I, he told me he was diagnosed with a whole bunch of weird things, including bipolar disorder. I've known this guy for 11 years, and he has far more control over his life than most people with true mental disorders. I'm actually jealous how much better success this guy has had, and he just accepts these bullshit labels thrown at him by a therapist who knew him for less than an 2 appointments worth of time. Another example is my brother, started taking anti-depressants because his job has been stressing him out much more lately. I tell him he doesn't need the pills, and he ought to change his dietary and exercise habits to combat the negative emotions. 66% of people on anti-depressants aren't even clinically or endogenously depressed either!
For much of my youth, I was a metal slave to the therapy industry. My doctors and therapists told me I wouldn't be able to function in society without stimulants and anti-depressants. I was told my shortfalls were because of my ADHD, and without the pills, I'd never succeed. I broke the shackles when I decided to detox from these legal drugs they pushed upon me, and underwent a mindset shift. I proved those fuckers wrong. I adopted a new mindset to disbelieve that my ADHD and depression were all fake and artificial. If I couldn't pay attention to a lecture, it was because the teacher or the subject matter was boring. If I was feeling sad, it was because of a situation, not because of a chronic mental depression. These therapists and doctors lied. Since giving up those pills, I'm less jittery, I don't stutter in my speech, I am more relaxed in social scenes, and I no longer have painful head aches. My life has improved tremendously since.
I know I pissed off a LOT of you a couple years ago when I said "Depression isn't real." The reason I made that old thread back at Hip was when I had an epiphany to overcome a very toxic mindset. Defying the existence of depression is a good mindset to adopt if you wanna fight it. Unless you've got a real clinical diagnosis, your depression is most likely a situational sadness that you eventually get over. You can overcome depression with a mindset shift, physical exercise, and possibly a better diet. You don't need a fucking therapist. You don't need psychotropic drugs. A therapist's business model relies on you coming in once a week to talk about all your insecurities and everything bad that's ever happened to you for an hour or so.
Sure it might feel good to blow off some steam to vent all your problems to someone who is getting paid to listen to you bitch and complain. But are you really getting anything accomplished just by chit chatting? Answer is NO. The more you sit around and talk about all the problems and negative life experiences, the more it mentally destroys you in the long run. You're wasting lots of money too, because therapists are expensive. If you want to overcome a problem, you take action. Action always wins. Therapy is not action, it's a time waster at best, and an insecurity builder at worst.
Unless you find yourself a very specialized life coach who is trained and experienced to helping you overcome a bad lifestyle habit or a personality flaw, you are better off not seeking a general therapist or doctor of psychiatry; they are all cut from the same cloth. Despite the dirt I fling at doctors and therapists, I am OK with life coaches. Life coaches have different specialties who take on a client's problem from a holistic approach, rather than push pills. The last life coach I sought after was a bestselling author. I wouldn't hire a life coach who has no success or status symbols to show for it.
When a therapist tells a client they have a diagnosis like ADHD, bipolar, depression, generalized anxiety, or anger problems. This can plant a seed in the mind of the client and potentially make the client actually believe these problems are truly there even if they are not. The patient believes they have problems via the placebo effect, and develop long term insecurities that keep them coming back to the therapist's office. Therapists and psychiatrists get kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies to prescribe such psychotropic drugs to fight these supposed problems. Most of the time the patient doesn't even need these drugs to solve whatever 1st world problem or insecurity they are experiencing. These drugs always bring on a slew of negative side effects that harm the client another way. All these therapists and doctors are from the same school of thought; their textbooks are bankrolled by big pharma as well. Therapists are not prophets. Many of them have problems similar to yours, so why look to them as a wiser and higher being than yourself? Some are likely cheating on their spouses and doing narcotics on the weekend.
I hate seeing good people who are successful in their professional and family life, constantly fall victim to these mental health scams. My friend who is a very successful designer who's far more talented than I, he told me he was diagnosed with a whole bunch of weird things, including bipolar disorder. I've known this guy for 11 years, and he has far more control over his life than most people with true mental disorders. I'm actually jealous how much better success this guy has had, and he just accepts these bullshit labels thrown at him by a therapist who knew him for less than an 2 appointments worth of time. Another example is my brother, started taking anti-depressants because his job has been stressing him out much more lately. I tell him he doesn't need the pills, and he ought to change his dietary and exercise habits to combat the negative emotions. 66% of people on anti-depressants aren't even clinically or endogenously depressed either!
For much of my youth, I was a metal slave to the therapy industry. My doctors and therapists told me I wouldn't be able to function in society without stimulants and anti-depressants. I was told my shortfalls were because of my ADHD, and without the pills, I'd never succeed. I broke the shackles when I decided to detox from these legal drugs they pushed upon me, and underwent a mindset shift. I proved those fuckers wrong. I adopted a new mindset to disbelieve that my ADHD and depression were all fake and artificial. If I couldn't pay attention to a lecture, it was because the teacher or the subject matter was boring. If I was feeling sad, it was because of a situation, not because of a chronic mental depression. These therapists and doctors lied. Since giving up those pills, I'm less jittery, I don't stutter in my speech, I am more relaxed in social scenes, and I no longer have painful head aches. My life has improved tremendously since.
I know I pissed off a LOT of you a couple years ago when I said "Depression isn't real." The reason I made that old thread back at Hip was when I had an epiphany to overcome a very toxic mindset. Defying the existence of depression is a good mindset to adopt if you wanna fight it. Unless you've got a real clinical diagnosis, your depression is most likely a situational sadness that you eventually get over. You can overcome depression with a mindset shift, physical exercise, and possibly a better diet. You don't need a fucking therapist. You don't need psychotropic drugs. A therapist's business model relies on you coming in once a week to talk about all your insecurities and everything bad that's ever happened to you for an hour or so.
Sure it might feel good to blow off some steam to vent all your problems to someone who is getting paid to listen to you bitch and complain. But are you really getting anything accomplished just by chit chatting? Answer is NO. The more you sit around and talk about all the problems and negative life experiences, the more it mentally destroys you in the long run. You're wasting lots of money too, because therapists are expensive. If you want to overcome a problem, you take action. Action always wins. Therapy is not action, it's a time waster at best, and an insecurity builder at worst.
Unless you find yourself a very specialized life coach who is trained and experienced to helping you overcome a bad lifestyle habit or a personality flaw, you are better off not seeking a general therapist or doctor of psychiatry; they are all cut from the same cloth. Despite the dirt I fling at doctors and therapists, I am OK with life coaches. Life coaches have different specialties who take on a client's problem from a holistic approach, rather than push pills. The last life coach I sought after was a bestselling author. I wouldn't hire a life coach who has no success or status symbols to show for it.
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