Therapy

[arnemgreeves]

To answer the OP, well using drugs as an analogy, taking drugs is still illegal in lots of countries. However, a therapist won't automatically report somebody to the police beause it's illegal. They would generally report something if it were an act that was harming others, or had harmed others in some way. This would be assaults, sexual assaults, etc.

[arnemgreeves]

12 hours ago, arnemgreeves said:

Therapy is a rigged game.

It's racist, belittling and partial.

They don't actually go over a template and like other branches of medical practice they don't go over a template. they just allow their biases to influence their judgments.

Like there are two uni/college-aged students - one is a hot, white guy/girl and they would never tell them not to look at porn or hook up. But the other is a tall non-white dude, and they would tell them NEVER to look at porn for any reason and wouldn't say the reason why not. Like their DSM says this is acceptable practice...of course. 

They tend to think like Hitler - they have these ranks in their minds about who has value and give the best practice to those who in their minds have the most value. It's a sham, especially when they tell everybody under the Sun that they "treat everybody equally". yeah, like we were all born yesterday.

For instance, they would not label the average male escort as this way. why? good looks, "normal" appearance in society. At least this is how it works in my country. The NHS UK mental health is shitty, shoddy and all the professionals are socially backward and unaware. They have a few big clinics in London or Manc or Glasgow or wherever handling lgbt stuff but i think it's just for show. For them, their initial pre-defined biases affect their outcomes, based on their sense of "normalcy" in human beings.

If any therapists chastises you for being either a sex worker or client, then fuck them. neither is a mental illness nor sign of such. 

I shouldn't really derail the thread like this - however, it's just facts.

Edited October 30, 2022 by arnemgreeves

[+ Vegas777]

I am grateful for my therapist.  He works for his own practice, and I pay him with cash.  I may be inclined to feel the system were against me, too, if I lived in a place where the only access to help was from government funded providers.  I realize that not everyone is in the position to pay for therapy on their own, so government funded providers are a good backstop to have for a segment of the population, similar to government funded primary education.

[arnemgreeves]

6 hours ago, Vegas_nw1982 said:

I am grateful for my therapist.  He works for his own practice, and I pay him with cash.  I may be inclined to feel the system were against me, too, if I lived in a place where the only access to help was from government funded providers.  I realize that not everyone is in the position to pay for therapy on their own, so government funded providers are a good backstop to have for a segment of the population, similar to government funded primary education.

In my country it’s not a backstop.