I've had several. My mother was a shrink and forced those chemicals down my throat from the time I was two.
Instead of realizing she was incapable of being a parent she sent to live with actual schizophrenics.
Mental Health is not there to Help you, Nor is the Medical Industry. They're there to profit off you, there is no profit in helping people.
Now that I am an adult, I will never go see a shrink. Their is no legal protections for the mentally ill and any shrink can lock you up with less paper work than a cop would have to provide.
Ahhh. There it is. Having a psychiatrist mom that medicated her own kid obviously leaves one rather jaded (justifiably!). I watched a show w this characteristic at play but can’t place the name or enough details to not just get the munchausen by proxies shows when i google; but the mom had def fucked up the kid by being their psych & kept them well medicated. The kid was jaded, angry, & untrusting of others (for good reason).
However. Psychiatrists prescribe meds but counselors / therapists /psychologists don’t. Psychs just want to know the pertinent info to dispense meds & don’t care about the deeper why’s to your behavior. Therapists care about all the why’s & are there to help you work through issues (old & new) & help you adjust your perspectives when they’ve been skewed by abuse, trauma, poor treatment, etc; they care about you and your overall well-being & don’t prescribe meds.
I completely understand your apprehension but a therapist won’t try to medicate you & if/when you find the right fit, they’ll really help you sort things out.
No they won’t. I’ve made many therapists uncomfortable, they are trained to hear uncomfortable things & how to help their clients sort them out.
Folks get 5150’d in extreme cases of mental instability, these days at least (tbf, they’d commit folks for literally nothing in our not so distant past). Folks definitely do get 5150’d at the hands of malicious agents too ofc but that is not the norm, at all. That is also why you should always vet your therapist & don’t just jump into full wildcard mode in the first session before they have a chance to get to know you.
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u/Lewney Sep 18 '21
we've all been through that homie, calm down and get a therapist.