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    Just like SSRI “antidepressants”, talk therapy likely no better than placebo

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    • ThinPickingT
      ThinPicking @haidut
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      @haidut said in Just like SSRI “antidepressants”, talk therapy likely no better than placebo:

      The study below demonstrates that another pillar of mental disease treatment – talk therapy – likely works in more than 20% of the cases, and even then the magnitude of effects of probably small.

      If one thing is certain, very few psychiatrists/psychologists are rated as trusted by their patients, and virtually none are loved.

      This is probably a two way street, inside them as well. That's probably why the stat is dismal.

      It never ceases to amaze me how conditioning of the public through manipulative mainstream media has managed to normalize not only sharing (and thus making available for profit-making) extremely private information with untrustworthy third parties, but that any attempt to question the effectiveness of professional psychological diatribe are vehemently condemned by both practitioners and public health officials.

      Now chatbots.

      Since it is now known that SSRI drugs were deliberately designed to keep the populace docile, servile and hierarchical, it is hard to believe that therapy (developed by the same commercial/medical/political interests that invented SSRI drugs) would have an effect any better than chemical “antidepressants”.

      Some evidence seems to indicate a more recent intervention could do that too.

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          Corngold
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          I don't have time atm to look it up but some studies found negative outcomes with talk therapy (like this one).

          https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4917117/#sec012

          The effect I had read about was rumination and fixating on repressed memories. Anyone even loosely acquainted with psychology since the 1980s probably knows about the false memory effect that skyrocketed after "suppressed memory" became trendy in psychology. Robert Whitaker has written three books on the psychology-pharmaceutical industry that are worth reading.

          Reminds me of this approach he mentions:
          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Dialogue

          Of course it's not popular because it basically cautions against drugs and psychotherapy but offers basic "retreat" style hospice care with health professionals. Only places like Finland and Scandinavia can afford it / are interested.

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            Corngold @Hando-Jin
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            @Hando-Jin said in Just like SSRI “antidepressants”, talk therapy likely no better than placebo:

            It's just a sick joke that wastes people's time, distracts them from finding real solutions and most importantly distracts from the material needs of desperate people: convince people all they need to get better is 'psychotherapy sessions' and all of a sudden their housing, food and clothing needs don't need to be considered. Perfect for nations controlled by a miserly, parasitic elite that want to take everything for themselves while they watch the vulnerable rot in the gutter.

            Haven't read this Epstein fellow but I'll agree environment is very important.

            Let's pretend for a second that insurance covered the majority of psychotherapy. I.e., imagine that prescriptions were $100-$500 and in-person visits were $10-20, the exact opposite of reality. If people weren't worried about the money they have to spend to "help themselves," they might actually start feeling better. They might see the burden of the "talk therapy" as a low cost option instead of a dire, catastrophic necessity. Let's say the upper bounds is out of pocket $400 per session. There goes at least 2 or 3 bills and/or gas and food. Absurd, the power of the evil schmucks and shysters who control all medical associations, insurance companies, pharmaceutical industry, and academic research.

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              I mean you can maybe get a realization or something but the main part is taken agency and actully applying what you need to do.
              learning what you need to do is only 20 percent of it. so to a point yeah its point less but is also still beneficial. Also its like some serotonin shit were you alaways talk about it or think about it to try and prove something but never apply it.
              I can heavily relate to that cause I used to day dream/mental masturbate all day.
              le awnser comes from within fr fr

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              • Hando-JinH
                Hando-Jin @herenow
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                @herenow said in Just like SSRI “antidepressants”, talk therapy likely no better than placebo:

                If therapy is of no value then what advice would someone give to a woman who's impaired and depressed from memories of being repeatedly sexually abused growing up?

                being 'stuck' is a metabolic problem

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                  Hando-Jin @Corngold
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                  @Corngold said in Just like SSRI “antidepressants”, talk therapy likely no better than placebo:

                  @Hando-Jin said in Just like SSRI “antidepressants”, talk therapy likely no better than placebo:

                  It's just a sick joke that wastes people's time, distracts them from finding real solutions and most importantly distracts from the material needs of desperate people: convince people all they need to get better is 'psychotherapy sessions' and all of a sudden their housing, food and clothing needs don't need to be considered. Perfect for nations controlled by a miserly, parasitic elite that want to take everything for themselves while they watch the vulnerable rot in the gutter.

                  Haven't read this Epstein fellow but I'll agree environment is very important.

                  Let's pretend for a second that insurance covered the majority of psychotherapy. I.e., imagine that prescriptions were $100-$500 and in-person visits were $10-20, the exact opposite of reality. If people weren't worried about the money they have to spend to "help themselves," they might actually start feeling better. They might see the burden of the "talk therapy" as a low cost option instead of a dire, catastrophic necessity. Let's say the upper bounds is out of pocket $400 per session. There goes at least 2 or 3 bills and/or gas and food. Absurd, the power of the evil schmucks and shysters who control all medical associations, insurance companies, pharmaceutical industry, and academic research.

                  Indeed. Being a 'psychologist' can be very lucrative, at the very least a comfortable upper middle class lifestyle. In my country they've been subsidized to the hilt by governments.

                  I'm also reminded of Ray's mention of Martin Seligman, a psychologist who helped devise the U.S governments 'enhanced interrogation' program aka torture by using his knowledge of learned helplessness. How was that asshole not struck off?

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                      ThinPicking @Hando-Jin
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                      As a first step I agree @Hando-Jin. But raising the rate of a traumatised and incoherent person. And leaving them with their own ideation is probably a very bad idea.

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                        Hando-Jin @ThinPicking
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                        @ThinPicking

                        No doubt empathetic listening has it's benefits but that's where it begins and ends in regards to psychologists. They don't even tell you that when they sign up. In fact, they don't tell you much of anything in regards to what the cause of your misery is, it's all very vague. Probably for reasons of avoiding legal liability. You just sit there and they hum and haw and write something down. Who knows what they are writing when they are the only ones allowed to see it.

                        Once I had a girlfriend who was seeing a therapist who had an impressive education with multiple degrees, one of them for integral psychology which at the time I knew a little about and thought may have been more impressive that the other bizarre ideas that dominate psychology. When the therapist printed out a bunch of inspirational quotes from the Oprah Winfrey Show to give to my then-girlfriend, the jig was up.

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                            @herenow PLS pls look for psycho somatologist, they are big chances to heal. Look for Peter A. Levine work. Also most of the therapists I like say that talking besides is not working also you retraumatize yourself.

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                              ThinPicking @Vasi1311
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                              @Vasi1311 said in Just like SSRI “antidepressants”, talk therapy likely no better than placebo:

                              talking besides is not working also you retraumatize yourself

                              What do you mean by besides vasi?

                              It absolutely has the potential to make things worse. Just like raising the metabolic rate does. Along with better perception in the now as described by Georgi on a podcast with Nate. This may be the very reason many people have an aversion to "peating".

                              I'm tempted to go back to sleep again in all honesty. "Normie" mode. It's a lot easier.

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                                Corngold @ThinPicking
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                                @ThinPicking good point but it's similar to fat vs carb fueling, and why people might jack themselves eating high carb rapidly. Gradual approach.

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                                    Corngold @Hando-Jin
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                                    @Hando-Jin said in Just like SSRI “antidepressants”, talk therapy likely no better than placebo:

                                    You just sit there and they hum and haw and write something down. Who knows what they are writing when they are the only ones allowed to see it.

                                    R.D. Laing supposedly used and promoted lsd to help de-stress patients. I think it's proven LSD helps people socialize and feel social unity (it does). He also went on walks with them or had casual conversations. His books are worth taking a look at. He was I think as much against the new pharmaceutical approach as he was against mainstream psychotherapy. "Sane person in an insane world," I think was one of his lines about "mental illness." Because environment is a huge factor; every mind is within a body, every body within a community or space, so those connective areas need to be healed. (not sure if Peat mentioned Laing but I feel like he might have, it was pretty revolutionary stuff in the 60s-80s apparently).

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                                      Vasi1311 @herenow
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                                      @herenow if you have read as much as I will know that not finding a time is also a choice ... I hope you will find time and good specialist

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                                        How do you feel about retinol now vasi? Not a trick question. Wondering how your... liver's doing.

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                                            ThinPicking @herenow
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                                            @herenow said in Just like SSRI “antidepressants”, talk therapy likely no better than placebo:

                                            biotherapeutic

                                            🤔

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