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Toma's avatar

Most therapists need therapy. They have been trained to make people "happy" and content with life whatever the individual situation is. Therapists need therapy to regain touch with reality. Anger is not an acceptable emotion regardless of the situation. You have anger management problems, when there are very good reasons to be angry. Depression can be caused by life experience, or chemical imbalance in the brain but are typically treated by drugs which do not work unless caused by a chemical imbalance.

Society has been trained to "happiness" - The required and only acceptable answer to "How are you doing?" is "Everything is just wonderful!". Telling the truth", Things suck " will get get you a strange look and the person will move away from you and stop talking to you. It's a large part of the reason we are where we are politically, financially and climate change is coming to get us. Psychologists impart denial and hope, not reality. By doing so therapy is counterproductive in many if not most cases. If you don't respond properly to talking therapy there are always drugs which are guaranteed to work.

In the larger scheme of things it has been devastating. People believe that climate change, ecocide and financial collapse are 100 years away - so why worry? It's not going to effect me.

I'd love to know how much has been spent on therapy to make people happy about the upcoming mass extinction event.

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ArtDeco's avatar

Sarah, you are well read, so I will also recommend "Mans Search for Meaning " and " the Denial of Death" if you haven't read them already. Also Taoism books, but I don't have a title off hand. Psychologists probably won't help b/c " There is nothing wrong with you, it’s the world we live in." as one of my psychologist friends told me.

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