Sick of the mental health services

I’ve been stupidly, uncommonly lucky in finding my therapist. I’d had run-ins with some real jokers in the past, and I was ready to call it a lost cause. You are 100% right; these people are incredibly dangerous and beholden to barely any oversight, and even then, the practices espoused by the oversight is so heavily corrupted by bias against the patients that it’s pretty much pointless.

It is baffling to me how many professionals in the psych field won’t listen to their patients. They subscribe to ideas that are… absolutely unhelpful at best, and try too many ‘one size fits all’ therapies, then become personally affronted when their haphazard techniques don’t immediately work. Like, what?!

On a personal note, a good portion of the abuse I lived through came from a guardian who was a mental health professional. They could do no wrong. I was suddenly, inexplicably, a problem child, their word against mine, and that was that. This person was fcking nuts. I know I don’t need to explain to this sub the types of abuse a child can suffer, so I won’t, but holy sht was this person insane. Insane. And, all the while, a respected member of the mental health care community.

Also, as an adult, I’ve simply known too many psychologists as social acquaintances to ever not be worried about the state of mental health care as it stands. ‘Bad things happen to bad people’ - that’s what they believed. How is it not an ethical breach of the trust a patient places in a therapist for the therapist to believe that?

I’ve been stupidly, uncommonly lucky in finding my therapist. I’d had run-ins with some real jokers in the past, and I was ready to call it a lost cause. You are 100% right; these people are incredibly dangerous and beholden to barely any oversight, and even then, the practices espoused by the oversight is so heavily corrupted by bias against the patients that it’s pretty much pointless.

It is baffling to me how many professionals in the psych field won’t listen to their patients. They subscribe to ideas that are… absolutely unhelpful at best, and try too many ‘one size fits all’ therapies, then become personally affronted when their haphazard techniques don’t immediately work. Like, what?!

On a personal note, a good portion of the abuse I lived through came from a guardian who was a mental health professional. They could do no wrong. I was suddenly, inexplicably, a problem child, their word against mine, and that was that. This person was fcking nuts. I know I don’t need to explain to this sub the types of abuse a child can suffer, so I won’t, but holy sht was this person insane. Insane. And, all the while, a respected member of the mental health care community.

Also, as an adult, I’ve simply known too many psychologists as social acquaintances to ever not be worried about the state of mental health care as it stands. ‘Bad things happen to bad people’ - that’s what they believed. How is it not an ethical breach of the trust a patient places in a therapist for the therapist to believe that?