Because your profession is a secular replacement for one of the most spiritual practices humanity engages in, and secularism is all about stripping away the soul from society and its very clearly done it to you.
You were almost certainly more of a human being when you were LARPing as an adherent to a retarded dead 20th century ideology then you are now.
Therapy is a secular corruption of the sacrament of reconciliation (confession), the only way to make it better is to cease its practice.
Therapists are paid to listen to you and regular people aren't. The average Joe probably has friends and family but how do you have a deep conversation with them when they live in a different universe than you? For example, good luck explaining something like dropkiwifarms to someone who's whole worldview is mass hysteria downloaded from cable news. Any conversation that isn't small talk about the weather devolves into a meaningless argument because we live in the mouse utopia and everyone has been trained from birth for generations to attack dissent on sight. A therapist is someone you can just rant to but you could probably get the same experience with an LLM/painted vollyball/guides on /x/ for summoning a demon gf for a fraction of the price.
Seeing people like Idubbbz and Boogie who act as though everyone is born as some broken husk of a person and you have to spend your life going to therapy to become whole again is the main reason I never had any interest, even when I'm feeling some type of way. To these people and the therapists who push this stuff it basically is a religion along the lines of Jehovah's Witnesses and it's real eerie to watch someone fall into it, especially when they start taking drugs and they get that dead-eyed stare or troon out.
I mentioned the mouse utopia earlier and I think the overly sanitized nature of everything is a big part of it. Every interaction with everything is optimized corpo speak designed to be as euphamistic and inoffensive as possible like that hideous art style every company uses or GUIs where it's all rounded and flattened to look like a toy for children. Talking to someone who sounds like a chatbot that always respons to whatever you tell it with positivity and agreement even when it totally ignores your prompt is really annoying, but at the same time being a raving psycho hell bent on imprinting your insane ideology onto your
I have not seen anyone afraid of old people but I can confirm that what little knowledge gets passed down is useless out of date nonsense like "just give them a firm handshake" or "put 50% of your money into bonds" that was irrelevant a quarter century ago.
Having a monetary incentive to keep someone unwell (or convince them that they are) forever is probably not a good way to encourage actual treatment. Maybe if you just paid a big lump sum for all your sessions when you were done there wouldn't be as many hacks just trying to create returning customers.
first you get rid of everything the jew freud said, but as a natsoc you probably already done that
your link blocks my vpn, so i know you are fishing
the jungian approach is the opposite of that
>your profession is a secular replacement for one of the most spiritual practices humanity engages in
I have no issue with confession. Let them seek it out if they want to, and let no one peer pressure anyone into choosing therapy over confession.
Shadow-work is great. So are psychedelics, under the right environment.
Besides paying, what's the difference there? Different universes, like you said.
"You are broken/nothing without therapy" is the message there, which isn't true. Hopefully a therapist can help you embody your true self. Warts and all (shadow work).
Part of the reason I'm being so positive/milquetoast is that I don't want to influence anybody's opinion if they do take the survey. That's biased research. I'm not lying to anybody here, but I'm also not arguing with them.
Another middle ground is between being absurd/confrontational/crazy and having liability issues.
That's unethical but I imagine some therapists do that. The stipend idea is pretty good.
using chatgpt as a shrink must be one of the worst things one can do, maybe one step below giving money to a jew for shrinking you
I mean using it for my own issues, lol... well, actually, I have asked it for some things and it's been helpful. For example, a client who is fat says "I'm fat." How do I respond to that? It hasn't come up yet but I'm sure it will.
I don't probe, personally. Psychically or otherwise.
kinda depends on if the client is fat or a girl with eating disorder
Makes sense to me. They are two pretty different scenarios. Some clients, if they were fat at any point, especially when they were kids, still feel that way. Same with gymcels. They often still feel insecure and weak inside, even if their body no longer suggests that. Even if they have admirers and sexual success. RIP Zyzz.
Having friends or family you can turn to helps a lot.
How does this forum make you a better therapist? Which type of therapy are you trained in or do you practice?
"Empathy," and, "love," are not the same things. They're simply portions of a greater whole. Therapists cannot show you any form of genuine love (and I mean this by the popular definition of love, not the deeper meaning that use other words in other languages). If they do then they are violating the entire point of their practice.
I'm not on here much, especially not since Cobra passed. I can't say it makes me have any more faith in humanity. It does help me appreciate the weird people out there, who live, fundamentally, like the rest of us. Not much surprises me anymore. It's not a numbness or embitterment, but an ability to deeply accept and work with whomever comes my way.
Love like romantic/affectional love? That would be violating ethics and boundaries. But what do you mean by "the entire point of their practice"?
You experience that? What an amazing friend you have. I think many people do not have a friend like that. Or they might have good friends, but there's a part of themselves they're ashamed to show their friends, or they did show them and they got judged or misunderstood. Seeing a therapist might help at that point.
Not romantic but yes on the affectionate side. A therapist shouldn't approach that level and to use the term, "love," without expressly stipulating a more specific form (ie: agape, eros, etc) then I question if you are actually looking at what a proper therapist is meant to do.
I don't necessarily disagree, but some person you're paying to affirm and psychoanalyze you isn't going to do much more than give you a voice saying, "just let yourself be you." At that point I could just use character.ai or something.
Do you incorporate other therapies into your practice? Why did you end up choosing to practice Gestalt therapy? Are there any therapies you avoid?
"Just be yourself" can limit your process of becoming who you are. On the flipside of that, there is self-acceptance. You think about mistakes you've made in the past and things you haven't done yet in the future, but right now, in this nanosecond, as you sit here, is there anything wrong with you?
I do incorporate other therapies. If it's something outside humanistic/Gestalt but the client is responding well to it, or they request it, then I'll use it (within my scope of practice). I chose Gestalt because it works well and I feel most at home in it. Also, I think it is especially effective for our generation, who has been raised on logic, bureaucracy, corporatization, and structure in all the wrong places (not in family, fewer "third spaces" for kids and adolescents).