Maybe You Should Quit Therapy
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- Опубликовано: 21 май 2024
- Dr. Richard Friedman has been teaching and seeing patients for more than 35 years. Recently, he wrote about the idea that, if therapy has become less of a targeted intervention and more of a weekly upkeep, it might be time to quit. In this episode, Friedman discusses the benefits of quitting therapy, and why it might be hard for some people to contemplate doing just that.
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It’s really difficult when after years of bombardment by the the messages
“If you’re unhappy or struggling, go to therapy”
“Therapy is for everyone”
“Therapy always works/is always the answer”
to NOT feel shame and guilt when you aren’t in therapy, but you aren’t happy.
I was told by a therapist that therapy is not “the right healing modality for” me.
Why do humans swing so far in one direction or another?
I have a few issues with this discussion.
First, the critical commentary of people medicalizing terms like trauma alongside the contrived example of someone feeling trauma over an entree being unavailable felt disingenuous.
He says part of the push for therapy is our dissolving third spaces like churches, but when asked if people really discussed intense and personal topics when those spaces were more common, he pivots to saying people just dealt with issues better. A clear dodge.
He also fails to articulate any clear harms of ongoing therapy, and seems to place an overinflated role of the practice on peoples ability to function independently. Id wager that most of the patients he would put into this category are processing plenty of their daily thoughts and issues on their own as he advocates, but value the unbiased external and confidential perspective from their therapist.
Maybe some nuance was lost to meet time constraints but this felt much more like a cultural critique than a data-driven clinical discussion.
Less therapy, more philosophy. 🙂
How do people have the money for perennial therapy?
welfare
@@goodson77784or insurance
@@goodson77784seems you did not listen to it. They made clear it is mostly a luxury of the affluent.
get a puppy. @@benjaminlucassmith
@@goodson77784lol tell me youve never been on welfare without telling me youve never been on welfare..
Ooooh big takeaway I love how he dropped MEDICALIZATION as a lens for the language in which people describe everyday life stressors as “traumatic, toxic, triggers” and then sample an audio of a comedian talking about neurodivergent people ahhhhh makin me jump outside of me I had a whole college class on medicalization has anyone else ever had a course on medicalization ?
This is so refreshing. Our culture's descent into self-indulgence and neuroticism has been dramatic and is getting worse all the time. On balance, the impact of psychology on the population has been disastrous. It seems that in most cases, therapy does little more than make a person unbearable to others: proudly self-centered and endlessly carrying on about the many villains who have aggrieved them somehow. Great that someone is talking about this.
When should I stop listening to nonsense like this?
Report more honestly and the Atlantic's staff of babies wouldn't need forever-therapy