@mitchconner @marine @PurpCat @djsumdog @jeff @PNS @Flick in my case the therapists either were weaving God into it since I live in Mormonville or seemed less interested in helping me get better and more interested in getting me out of the office. I was also really closed in and they didn't really do anything that made me trust them enough to open up. It's a bit blurry though too, maybe my parents had something to do with it because I know my siblings had therapy issues because of that.

@beardalaxy @marine @PurpCat @djsumdog @jeff @PNS @Flick i think they are in a rush to get you out of there when they realize you are smart enough to know they are full of shit, based on personal experience

I'm really weary about the entire field of psychology/psychiatry these days. When I was younger, my father forced me to go to therapy for my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (hand washing, nothing to do with germs, several times an hour; would try out and crack my hands). I didn't really see a problem with it and just wish people would leave me alone. One center recommended getting the whole family in for group. My dad took me somewhere else that would just give me drugs. I don't think he wanted to see himself as the problem.

All the drugs sucked. I hated them. Lots of side-effected. Tired all the time. Thankfully I never improved and came off all of them and got my dad to just fucking stop before high school.

In University I tried therapy on my own. I'd state my OCD as the reason, because I didn't want to admit to the depression. One doc was a quick fixer; wanted as few sessions as possible. Another girl cancelled three appointments in a row and I stopped rescheduling.

I had one and only one decent shrink in my life. It was just for a summer, she helped expose bad patterns in my thinking, and I think my outlook on the world changed significantly. She still pushed drugs even though I said I didn't like them, and I stopped talking the SSRIs once when I got so woozy I wrecked a car in a ditch (first and only totaled vehicle that was my fault. There was one other where a woman ran a stop sign).

All that being said, one of my best friends is bipolar/schizo-effective. Two years back everyone got really worried about him cause he stopped talking his meds, started showing up unannounced at peoples' houses, had friends call the sheriff multiple times on him. He was totally apologetic after; defending none of this actions. He said he could see how crazy he got in retrospect, and felt deeply ashamed. One pill, one anti-psychotic, is all that keeps him from being a normal guy to being paranoid and unable to hold a job.

There are a few people who need medical intervention, but the vast majority do not. What's especially troubling are parents who send their kids to therapy, which likely causes all types of problems that normally wouldn't arise (see Joe Rogan #2109 with Abigail Shrier; who just wrote a book on the issues with child therapy).

@djsumdog @marine @mitchconner @beardalaxy @jeff @PNS @Flick I'm so glad I'm off Adderall I just wish I had better online friends

@PurpCat@clubcyberia.co @djsumdog@djsumdog.com @marine@breastmilk.club @mitchconner@clubcyberia.co @beardalaxy@gameliberty.club @PNS@noauthority.social @Flick@spinster.xyz dont we all

@jeff @PurpCat @djsumdog @marine @Flick @mitchconner @PNS wish I had better friends in general sometimes I'd say "alright guys let's be friends! :D" but you can't really force that can you lol

Thank you for sharing with us. How are your hands doing today?

I still have OCD. It affects me less in some ways, has gotten worse in others, but I hide it better these days. It's never gone away though.

@djsumdog @nicholas @marine @PurpCat @mitchconner @beardalaxy @jeff @PNS @Flick ocd is fake, just stop thinking about things - that easy

@a7 @nicholas @marine @PurpCat @djsumdog @beardalaxy @jeff @PNS @Flick til you're one of those douchebags who thinks anything that doesn't happen to you personally is fake

@mitchconner @nicholas @marine @PurpCat @djsumdog @beardalaxy @jeff @PNS @Flick sure

@a7 @nicholas @marine @mitchconner @PurpCat @djsumdog @jeff @PNS @Flick I think the only way to do that is with a lobotomy, physical or chemical lol.

@beardalaxy @nicholas @marine @mitchconner @PurpCat @djsumdog @jeff @PNS @Flick spfff whatever fakers, next one of you are gonna say you are “dyslexic”

You mean "lsydxic"?

@djsumdog @nicholas @marine @PurpCat @mitchconner @beardalaxy @jeff @PNS @Flick it’s a spectrum

@djsumdog @nicholas @a7 @marine @PurpCat @beardalaxy @jeff @PNS @Flick what a stupid asshole. Blocked that clown

@mitchconner @nicholas @marine @PurpCat @djsumdog @beardalaxy @jeff @PNS @Flick holy shit lol he did. I have a feeling this block isn’t about the shitpost.
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Glad your hands aren't cracked any more; wishing good things for you.

@djsumdog @marine @mitchconner @PurpCat @jeff @PNS @Flick >I don't think he wanted to see himself as the problem.

This 100% is how my parents were and from talking to my friends about this sort of thing, it just so happens that they have the same thought. Proud and/or manipulative parents. I got punishment instead of help for a lot of stuff. I think some of it came down to image, or perceived image. Like, getting your child help for issues is seen as acknowledgement of those issues and the possibility that you caused/exacerbated them. Grounding them and holding God over their head, telling them to go to the bishop to repent, it's less of an admission on the parents' part. If that makes sense.

I didn't know I had a mood disorder until I was 18 and I didn't know it entailed hypersexuality until I was 24. Would have solved a lot of problems, needless to say. Although I would have needed actual help instead of more drugs and I'm not confident that would have happened... In the end I'm just glad I figured things out for myself eventually, but I catch myself thinking about what could have changed every now and then. I can remember even as a child having these symptoms and it was always brushed off until it couldn't be anymore, so it just got left to fester and it took a lot of work on my own part to begin healing. I'm really lucky to be where/who I am today.

For my other siblings, after my parents' divorce, they had a really good therapist they all liked but he called CPS on my dad because he identified the problem... so my dad switched them to a different therapist that sucked. Later on, my brother tried to an hero and didn't want to take therapy after that, dad forced him to go anyway and when he skipped out on a session he got kicked out. Went with a friend to go pick him up. Was a fun night. My dad's a lot less of an issue now that we are all out of the house, but damn, it was rough.

When you're not content with how things are and you want to change them, and you're resistant to someone just telling you to be content and calm and go with it, and the drugs they give you make you complacent and apathetic, it's torture. Therapy is only good for having someone to vent to. If you really want change you have to take the bull by the horns until your hands are bloody, but nobody wants to tell you that because it's uncomfortable and can sometimes cause a bad image for people. I think having a good, close friend to help beat you up but still catch you when you fall is so much better, but not everyone has that.

@djsumdog @marine @mitchconner @PurpCat @jeff @PNS @Flick we're all gonna make it though, frens

@beardalaxy @djsumdog @marine @mitchconner @jeff @PNS @Flick yeah dude I am literally dealing with my family issues today every time I end up in stressful shit, yet I also have learned the hard way and from ordeals of friends just how much parents like that will use little things to control you.

Never take a car title in your parents name, ever.

@PurpCat @marine @mitchconner @djsumdog @jeff @PNS @Flick pretty much every time i've seen someone do that it ends poorly. in fact, just in general, having someone's name other than yours on it is bad news.

@beardalaxy @marine @mitchconner @djsumdog @jeff @PNS @Flick yeah I'm gonna focus in the next year on art and trying to move out of my families influence ngl

@xianc78 he was telling me about wanting to research nootropics or something along those lines. don't think he's thought about anything outside of that though. i think he was going to have to move to california if he wanted to study it, something along those lines.