Reddit reviews Shouldn't I Be Feeling Better By Now?: Client Views Of Therapy
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Something similar happened to me, one problem I had with my mother is that she would try to force me into therapy or whatever treatment she wanted, and the treatments mostly didn't work, and then when I talked to the therapists that this happened in the past, the conversation went nowhere. For me I ended up trying other stuff instead of therapy to heal myself.
There are therapists who write about how therapy might be hurtful (Like the author of this book: https://www.amazon.com/Shouldnt-Be-Feeling-Better-Now-ebook/dp/B01E40Y6Y2/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_1?__mk_pt_BR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=shouldn%27t+I+feel+better+by+now&qid=1569470931&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmr2), so maybe a therapist that you already know that he/she knows about the problems with therapy might be a better chance of working. But then the problem becomes finding such a therapist.
> Why is there such a hate for psychotherapy on this sub?
First off, let me start by saying that my intention is not to attack you or your profession or anything of the sort. I just want to answer your question, which I don't think is rhetoric, and participate in the discussion.
I wouldn't say exactly that I hate psychotherapy, but I do think it has a bunch of flaws. One of the reasons for me to criticize psychotherapy is that I ended up much worse with it, with a depression that started in 2005 and is not yet cured, and that is due at least in part because of the therapy i did (therapy with a psychiatrist, I should add). And I had bad experiences every single time I did therapy. The only psychologists that helped helped only to the degree that I read their books or articles or watched their videos and learned about the problems with psychiatric medication and so was not even more damaged by them.
That doesn't mean that I think psychologists are always wrong, I do acknowledge that they help a bunch of people, but I do think that the list of mistakes they make is quite extensive.
This in particular I find is a great book on what goes wrong on therapy, a bunch of things described here happened to me too:
https://www.amazon.com/Shouldnt-Be-Feeling-Better-Now-ebook/dp/B01E40Y6Y2/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1467991608&sr=8-1-fkmr1&keywords=shouldn%27t+I+be+feeling+better+by+now
> And if you believe that psychotherapy is not an answer either, then what do you suggest to do for peoples real, normal, and natural human suffering?
Maybe later I will write more about this, but for now I can say that in my case what has helped me most is zen buddhism, and what helped me to a lesser degree was reading material on how to deal with narcissistic people, or with a narcissistic parent, which is my case and also part of the reason why I'm depressed since 2005.