Like, I’ve had several therapists/psychologists/psychiatrists/counselors throughout my life who either seemed disinterested or flat out unfit to deal with people like me, and I don’t even think I’m the worst case scenario (who knows, maybe I am?).
What’s their main demographic, who do they even help? Yuppies, professionals, people in manager positions who already have had successful professional, social, and dating lives?
They’re already too expensive for most of the population, they seem to be absolutely oblivious to the problems of most men of color or trans folks or most gay folks, they can’t help early career young people, definitely not working class people, like what the fuck are they good for? And can people just shut the fuck about ‘just go to therapy, honey’, ‘men will do anything but go to therapy’ like fuck off. I went to therapy, and holy shit yeap, the world still sucks and society is still extremely hostile to me.
Oh I can change my reaction to things? to live in delusion is almost what they seem to be prescribing and nah, I’d rather just save the 100 dollars per session and spend it on 2 months supply of fucking OxyContin.
And motherfucker, if you’re a psychiatrist, and I’m here for adderall or anxiolitics or fucking laxatives, you had better fucking give it to me. I didn’t fucking pay 150 to prescribe me children’s medication or to be lectured about the importance of therapy.
Yeah. There seems to be a hierarchy of misery. Not only is the suffering caused by class society considering invalid, even expressing it is considered a taboo. Deep down liberals understand that the legitimacy of the system they benefit from depends on that suffering being kept hidden. That is why they react so emotionally to it.
✅ I'm sad because I can't go out due to the anxiety chemicals in my brain misfiring
❌ I'm sad because I can't go out due to everything costing money and I'm being denied the realistic ability to acquire money
I am not saying that all psychiatry is bunk. That psychiatrist who jumped to maintain ideological purity in the group session was the same who prescribed me my ADHD meds who has really been a help in all areas of life. But there is a certain element of gaslighting in there when people who are sad for good material reasons are being pathologised and told that their misery is due to their brain chemicals being out of balance. Ultimately what we need is a form of psychiatry enlightened by marxist analysis. Genuine psychiatric disorders intersect with the misery caused by class society in a dialectic way and insisting on being blind to one half of that dialectic is doing patients a disservice.
"Depression" is a lie that should not exist: https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/traditional-dsm-disorders-dissolve