Therapists aren't supposed to use you for steady income. From a good therapist's perspective, if their clients continue to need therapy, they're failing.
This is certainly a pattern that can set in (and it did last time I saw a therapist). But I do believe a most therapists start out with a good-faith intent to fix people. There's a lack of therapists and a long line of patients waiting for help so it's not like they will be out of a job anyway.
The bigger problem is that there's very little scientific rigor in what they do. They don't have enough tools or skills to actually help me, because the science isn't there yet.
> the perversive incentives make them align to just do that.
I don't think any therapist actively avoided helping me, but rather at some point they too get comfortable and sort of slack it off like "So what have you been doing/how was your week" sort of thing.
There are mental illnesses that don't go away. You can manage them with medication and therapy, so why would you expect such patients to stop going to therapy.
tough|2 years ago
Why would any pharmaceutical invent the cure of a chronic diseases, if they can have you as a customer for life
winternewt|2 years ago
The bigger problem is that there's very little scientific rigor in what they do. They don't have enough tools or skills to actually help me, because the science isn't there yet.
raducu|2 years ago
I don't think any therapist actively avoided helping me, but rather at some point they too get comfortable and sort of slack it off like "So what have you been doing/how was your week" sort of thing.
amelius|2 years ago
maleldil|2 years ago