I would never allow myself to take up that position because i feel it defeats the purpose of why I’m good at it. I don’t like helping people emotionally because of a paycheck. I love helping others up because I don’t like seeing others suffer and if i can help for free then i will help for free. I don’t want the sufferers money in exchange for a helping hand. I will give you a hand when you need a hand and you wont owe me anything. I just want whoever i help to be happy. Another silly thing about being a “licensed therapist” is the fact that they know there are people who need emotional support but can’t “afford” it. As if human kindness needs a price tag on it. It’s almost like saying, “I’m mentally stable so if you want me to help you then I’m gonna charge your mentally disabled @$$ $250 an hour.” I mean it’s highly likely that other areas of their life are out of control when their mind is out of control so they can’t function properly. This means their negative minds can affect their income so i find this to be kinda fucked up. I think therapists shouldn’t be paid so highly because if humans would all just love one another it would sort of act like a healthy virus of love, love could just spread. 3-5 people helped heal me and now I’m healing anyone i can heal. Not everyone has to go see the special therapist because there’s people like me around who will befriend you and care for you without the request $100 a session. I hope i can bump into some of you guys in real life. And i hope i can see right through the masks some of you wear. I hope i can at least give you some faith.
I know we pay for health insurance too but I feel like thats a little different. Depression and social anxiety is something that can be healed on a personal level. It doesn’t require special tools or physical medicines. It just requires some empathy/ sympathy.
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You perfectly explained why I don’t like therapists and will never pay for one again. I agree it doesn’t have to be this way. If 1 altruistic therapist would start doing sessions for free, for the sake of helping with no other agenda, it might wake up others to do the same thing.
I volunteer at an animal shelter, walking dogs, cleaning cages, and I would NEVER take a dime. That would defeat the reason why I go there. The shelter has scores of other volunteers who do the same. It’s like you said “a love virus” and everyone feels good helping without money or greed corrupting the feeling.
And although I’m not religious, I like how churches are free to visit, you can sit in silence or you can listen to the preacher, or you can join a prayer group and nobody makes you buy a ticket.
The medical profession is overrun by greed because someone realized you can make a ton of money from desperate people. One doctor started charging tons of money and everyone else said ‘Hey I can do that too.’ Now, no doctors or therapists are interested in helping people, even though they love to say they do. Oh really? Then why do they refuse to talk to you until you fill out half a dozen forms providing insurance and payment? Only then will they “help” and only until the end of the hour. Next.
The act of charging patients directly creates a perverse incentive to turn a paying customer into a chronically unwell patient. I’m not saying this happens a lot, but the incentive is there, and I’m sure it’s not unheard of. Money is a stupid thing. We should capture it, gather it into a single pile and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.