/r9k/ - ROBOT9999

It depends on your situation. It works for normies because they're retarded and can't figure out their own problems. Also, sometimes you do get stuck and need some external guidance. However, the financial incentive is for therapists to keep you there as long as possible without actually fixing your issues, so they generally don't.
I accomplished 10x as much by playing a raisinty visual novel that gave cognitive behavioral therapy techniques than I did with 4 years of therapy.
So I guess tldr, technically it works, but also don't go to a therapist.
If you have a specific problem you want advice with I wouldn't mind giving some

>>42491

>If you have a specific problem you want advice with I wouldn't mind giving some

Were you ever apprehensive of opening up about certain topics because your therapist could put you in a psych ward?

talking can help. Talking to someone who's job is to talk to people and provide canned responses and "advice" isn't great, imo. They don't really "care" about you, and have their own problems. (but then this is true of most people)

>>42577

do you believe therapy can help people resolve their problems in a non-placebo way even if it is just canned responses?

>>42609
I'm not the guy you're asking, but no therapy is bullcrap for faggots and women. You're just talking to a faggot about your feelings and he prescribes you SSRI that turn you an even bigger faggot. Become religious or keep suffering, idc. Just don't humiliate yourself by going to "therapy" like a sissy faggot.

>>42491
is it worth going to a psychiatrist/therapist just for a formal diagnosis? i remember talking about my feelings to some ai bots (namely chatgpt and perplexity) as i have nobody i can sufficiently trust to be honest enough about my thoughts and emotions and the bots both suggested that i go to one and that i have a high likelihood of having cluster a personality disorder(s) which requires treatment

The only ones who could maybe use therapy are actual schizophrenics. Most of you are just teenagers, stop worrying about this stuff. Every faggot is self-diagnosing himself with "depression" and "autism" now, it's so weak

No you don't have "depression", you have low-T, eat a steak

i can see how it would be beneficial but i have good instincts so i would never pay a glownigger to talk to about my life and paranormal experiences.

AHHHHHHHHHHH, I'M GONNA CUUUUUUUUUUM, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>42487 (OP)
It legitimately made me poorer.

More seriously a psychiatrist who gave me meds helped me more in becoming stable. But you need the right meds, the wrong ones can make you worse.

It depends on how much you are willing to change, and how good the doctor is.

>>42904
correct. SSRI inhibitors NEED antipsychotics to counter the side effects of suicidal and homicidal tendencies. You hear about the 22 veterans a day stat, but what they leave out is those guys WERE in treatment, but they were not given the proper balance of meds. Now the problem is that these meds all have side effects. You are trying to adjust your behavior with pills, like calibrating a complex machine, and each pill throws something else out of whack.

You have to work with the doctor too, and if you have trouble communicating then you will have trouble working with the doctor. They are human and can only do so much.

Normally i advise against writing journals, as i think those can be used against you in court. Not a lawyer but to me there are more risks than benefits. HOWEVER in the case of treatment with medication and therapy then YES you need a journal.

Write down when you took your meds, read what the side effects are, write down how you are using the therapy, then when you come back to the next appointment tell the doctor how it went.

>>42619
While i wish eating steak fixed all of life's problems, nutrition DOES play an important role in mental AND physical health.

Improving you life is hard. and not every tool works as well as we need it to, and some tools work better than others.

Hang in there.

>>42617
>>42576
Sorry, forgot about this thread
>>42576
I would be in a psych ward if I was open about how suicidal I was, yes. I still got diagnosed with severe depression.
>>42617
Psychiatrist yes, therapist no. A psychiatrist's job is to diagnose you, a therapist's job is to talk to you.

>>42934
>Psychiatrist yes, therapist no. A psychiatrist's job is to diagnose you, a therapist's job is to talk to you.
im not sure if either is a good idea for me doe. it seems useful for me to have a real clinical diagnosis to see if theres anything wrong with me (probably not, but you never know) but if i do get one and it turns out i have a mental disorder i will never be able to acquire a firearm license which is a very big deal for me seeing as i really need a gun and also my father is a near retirement aged boomer who is very opposed to any sort of mental health raisin probably due to how he was raised, so if it turned out i had any sort of personality disorder, no matter how minor, he would think im completely fucked in the head and force me on meds (something i would never ever want to take)