I feel like I’m crossing the point of thinking about death to making it happen. So I started thinking about my attempts to make things better, many times have I seen therapists, doctors support workers etc. I’ve always felt these people to very dishonest, good intentions, bad methods. The most recent person I worked with was titled a social inclusion officer I think. I spoke with them a few times before I reached the point where I couldn’t trust them. They always say things like “things will get better” and “you’re a good person”.
I can’t help but think, I’ve just met you, I’m a complete stranger please don’t talk to me like you know me, it’s insulting and condescending. Do people in mental health professions think we are all really dumb or something? That you can just say nice things and we’ll believe them without context. I feel that maybe as a result of their studying and training in helping people, they’ve developed a distant view of them. We are still PEOPLE! Talk to us, not at us!
Anyway there’s how I feel about “mental health professionals” I think I probably wouldn’t be in such a dark place if I never asked for help. I wanted to know some other peoples opinion on them.
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I do not trust them at all. I have TBI from a severe motorcycle accident 4 years ago. Prior to the accident I was somewhat “normal” had close friends and family but was involved in some questionable money making schemes that I’m no longer capable of. The anger, stress, frustration of being physically disabled and limited in my capabilities not to mention very financially limited. I have come to the decision that I need to figure this out on my own. I keep a loaded pistol nearby at all times if I gain the balls to end it but the brain is a very mysterious device and I feel working out our personal bullshit is up to us and us alone! It may seem sad and hopeless at times but that’s the reality of it from my perspective. Trust NO ONE!!! Be strong, hope my opinion does you some justice.
I agree, the psychiatric system is inherently flawed, not only through it’s primitive means of “helping” but by the fact that many of it’s workers can’t empathize with many mental illnesses or at least understand them to the point where they can recognize the validity in them and take them seriously. becoming a therapist requires going through a myriad of schooling, studying symptoms and learning to observe and match them to diagnoses. the problem with that though is that it’s systematic and objective, when mental illnesses are completely subjective for the most part. much like you can understand music from an objective point: you can study the mathematics of it and the tangible reasons as to how and why it functions, you can learn all about octaves and scales and whatever, but only when you *hear* music can you truly understand it. much like depression etc. you can study the logistics of it and learn about it from a book written from scientific studies, but most therapists will never truly understand depression. or even if they do, they can’t empathize with the vast variety of reasons for depression and come from a biased view point that just because something helped “save” them at one point it must mean there is always a solution for others, which is not true.