Post before I run off to work...
I've been keeping extremely busy with work, as I have multiple things I want/need this year which are going to require me to save up. If anyone wondered why I haven't been too evident lately, well, that's why.
Like religion, this is a field where you have therapy and medicine shoved down your throat. For too many people in my field, those are the answer for everything, usually in conjunction with each other. I very strongly disagree.
Multiple studies have been conducted regarding therapy and its uses. This is not a rant about therapy, per se, but pop therapy, and it's something I encounter too much. This is the therapy that relies more on being popular than any scientific study. The therapy where you need to 'vent' or rehash your story fifty million times, no matter how agonizing it was the first time? Yeah. There's no evidence showing it works. Instead, you could very possibly hurt the person involved or, regarding venting, hurt someone else. That thing about venting your feelings by punching a pillow when you're upset? Has anyone actually thought about it before telling their clients to do it? You're actively teaching that person to use violence as a method. It means nothing for the pillow, but when that pillow is unavailable? That person hasn't been taught to control their emotions (which is deemed unhealthy in many psychological circles). Before you make such recommendations to your client, why don't you check out what has actually been proven to work.
That thing that psychologists like to do? View everyone as a possible victim, slap a label on them, tell them they are powerless? I have no idea how that helps anyone. Some people with severe mental health issues are incredibly challenged, but there are few people out there who does not have some sort of say in their actions or thoughts. Many people out there do have a mental health issue, and they know enough about themselves, their triggers, etc. to know how to deal with it without someone else undermining them and telling them they're helpless. Some people willingly go along with it in order to get the beloved 'disabled' label and not have to work. I know multiple people with the 'disabled' label who are perfectly capable of working independently but have learned that they don't have to. The incredible downside to this? The people who actually need that extra assistance can't get it.
On that note, medicine. They love to give out medicine like it was candy. For some people, they honestly need it. Some of these people won't, however, take it, because they are used to people being overmedicated and have difficulties differentiating between true need and people wanting to slap a band-aid on something. Other people have learned they can just drug themselves and not have to deal with their problems. I know a therapist who uses drugs as an answer for everything. Everything is just so much better if drugs are involved. That viewpoint terrifies me.
Now I need to run to work. Eep!
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Like religion, this is a field where you have therapy and medicine shoved down your throat. For too many people in my field, those are the answer for everything, usually in conjunction with each other. I very strongly disagree.
Multiple studies have been conducted regarding therapy and its uses. This is not a rant about therapy, per se, but pop therapy, and it's something I encounter too much. This is the therapy that relies more on being popular than any scientific study. The therapy where you need to 'vent' or rehash your story fifty million times, no matter how agonizing it was the first time? Yeah. There's no evidence showing it works. Instead, you could very possibly hurt the person involved or, regarding venting, hurt someone else. That thing about venting your feelings by punching a pillow when you're upset? Has anyone actually thought about it before telling their clients to do it? You're actively teaching that person to use violence as a method. It means nothing for the pillow, but when that pillow is unavailable? That person hasn't been taught to control their emotions (which is deemed unhealthy in many psychological circles). Before you make such recommendations to your client, why don't you check out what has actually been proven to work.
That thing that psychologists like to do? View everyone as a possible victim, slap a label on them, tell them they are powerless? I have no idea how that helps anyone. Some people with severe mental health issues are incredibly challenged, but there are few people out there who does not have some sort of say in their actions or thoughts. Many people out there do have a mental health issue, and they know enough about themselves, their triggers, etc. to know how to deal with it without someone else undermining them and telling them they're helpless. Some people willingly go along with it in order to get the beloved 'disabled' label and not have to work. I know multiple people with the 'disabled' label who are perfectly capable of working independently but have learned that they don't have to. The incredible downside to this? The people who actually need that extra assistance can't get it.
On that note, medicine. They love to give out medicine like it was candy. For some people, they honestly need it. Some of these people won't, however, take it, because they are used to people being overmedicated and have difficulties differentiating between true need and people wanting to slap a band-aid on something. Other people have learned they can just drug themselves and not have to deal with their problems. I know a therapist who uses drugs as an answer for everything. Everything is just so much better if drugs are involved. That viewpoint terrifies me.
Now I need to run to work. Eep!
This entry was originally posted at http://tir-synni.dreamwidth.org/20686.html. Please comment there using OpenID.