Oddbean

I’m not sure you’re at the point in your journey where you’ve realized therapy isn’t some benevolent net positive and is actually in many cases harmful. We have more people going to therapy than ever before and yet everyone is more mentally ill than ever before. Fixating on your problems causes them to grow.

Good question, although one that has a complex answer. However, I will do my best. First, I would say it starts in the family environment. Most parents are not trained to holistically raise their children (physical, emotional, and spiritual). They have allowed the state to dupe them into state propaganda which is antithetical to holistic intelligence. Moreover, parents really can't find good practical help in understanding how their child's world works (their thoughts and emotions). Additionally, with parents, they are ever increasing in their busyness throughout the day, as the fiat system is designed to always require more labor to uphold the basic needs of a family. Second, a lot of us (and to your original note) do not want to take responsibility for our own actions. Third, too much inauthentic stimulation. Social media, fear prorogation, and unhealthy foods and water. To combine it all, we have not had the best parenting, which creates the symptoms of abdication of our responsibility while the state socially engineers our environment around us to pull us away from authenticity from ourselves and Nature.

I wonder about medication through psychiatry also. Seems like that is an underappreciated risk factor for some people, as many medications have side effects that are unpleasant and even harmful. And might it be true that finding a good psychologist is like finding a good teacher is like finding a good guru is like finding a good investment advisor, there are a whole bell curve of possibilities and everyone is looking for the right tail?

I can see both perspectives, my grip is with licensing from the state and the obligations and perspectives it forces on to the therapist client relationship. I believe that should be sacred first and foremost, and I struggle to see how it can be that with the state in between. And this is not unique to this relationship, but doctors, teachers, and all relationships in which ‘licensing’ is the only way to attain such a practice.

I felt the same way. I get that doing things and being productive can help, but I’d never tell someone to not go to therapy. I would just ALSO tell them to do things, to be productive, to exercise, to meditate, etc. That post was a little much for me, too. Like, I’d strangle this dude in a real life physical confrontation, but I was in therapy last week. Lol

With the caveat that I haven't been to therapy, and hence don't know the full details of the particular subject of this thread, that is exactly what I don't like in Bitcoin circles. While there are many, probably even a decent majority, of reasonable bitcoiners, there seems to be a disproportionately large portion of people with Tate-ish opinions (regarding a certain few subjects), compared to people in general. I even see it (or perhaps I should say hear it) radicalizing certain podcasters over time, them becoming more and more hateful towards people not sharing the Ideals(TM). This itself can't be good for their own mental health, and if there's anything we don't need in the Bitcoin community, its division over matters that are irrelevant to Bitcoin and its future.