Brief and simple guidelines to navigate the mental health system
- The human being is by nature incoherent and inconsistent.
- The person with a role is not a magician, but simply a person like you who has completed certain university studies (which you might have done as well). There ends the difference between his role and yours.
- The psychologist is useful for normies with trivial problems (love, bereavement, work situations, addictions, etc.). It is, instead, the psychotherapist, the person who can treat personality disorders or other serious clinical situations. The problem is that, assuming for a second the validity of the subject, there is a multitude of theoretical schools of psychotherapy; so, unless you find what is perfectly suited for you, you are unlikely to see results. Psychiatrists are doctors, and all they do is prescribe drugs randomly (which are mostly generic tonics and sedatives anyway, where not mere placebos).
- Psychotherapy is not a science, it’s a discipline that, aside from things like EMDR and the vagus nerve (which only have to do with tangible traumas anyway), is “just talking”, and you can’t change the core of one’s personality with just brainwashing; if you can, then the patient was already a potential normie in the first place. In other words, psychotherapy only works for those who don’t need it in the first place. Psychiatry, instead, is a pseudoscience (or, at best, a protoscience) that’s stuck in the 70s and is waiting for neurosciences to provide some answers, which might not ever arrive. Right now, it proceeds haphazardly, following social trends of what is considered normal and what is not (homosexuality is the most obvious historic example).
- Do not underestimate the ignorance of professionals, especially when it comes to diagnosing personality disorders.
- In most cases, the male psychologist or psychotherapist has had (and perhaps still has) mental health problems himself and has studied the discipline to help himself first; so he’s interesting at least from an empathetic point of view.
- Study on your own about these disciplines. Mental health professionals are there not to teach you, but only to fulfill their social role. Always keep in mind that those are not sciences, but are improvised techniques for managing the atypical individuals.
Tell the professional that you are reading about psychotherapy/psychiatry, and you will immediately be advised against it. Too easily, a parallel with the Christian religion automatically arises, which does not encourage individual study of the scriptures: «Trust what we tell you, don’t bother to read the books…»
- The funny thing is that psychotherapy tries to instill more metacognition into the patient, when the schizoid (and to a point, probably the other personality disorders too) is actually suffering exactly because it has too much metacognition and self-consciousness.
- The goal of the mental health super-structures is to bring you back to being a slave to the system and to reintegrate the individual within the collective illusion of humanity. This despite the fact that our society is a mess and is falling apart. So, consider whether you actually want to attempt to treat some unconscious adaptations or whether you just want to do philosophy, because in the latter case you picked the wrong professional and you should instead ask for a philosophical consultation. When you get to the point where you instill depression in your psychotherapist, maybe it’s time to reconsider the point of going there.
- Still believing that depression is a matter of serotonin levels is like still believing today that if a black cat crosses your road, you’re going to get bad luck.
- Other patients cannot help you because they are clumsy and have different needs than yours.
- If you are entitled to disability benefits, no one is going to tell you, you have to make do and do everything yourself.
- Perversion is frowned upon as in any other environment, because it highlights the instability and arbitrariness of social structures.
- «How many psychotherapists does it take to change a light bulb? Only one, but it takes a lot of time and money, and the bulb has got to really want to change.» This is a great joke, but it’s based on the sad reality of the psychotherapeutic world.
