Will the stigma of therapy and medication ever go away? - don't be scared to seek help

[Disco Inferno]

I always thought it's fucked up that someone trying to either improve themselves or seek help is looked down upon and considered "weak" or "crazy".

 

[Megaroad 2012]

Who says that other that ignorant assholes and weirdos who are obssessed with "manliness" because their broken father told them getting help is for the weak?

 

[Exorbital Columnations]

Maybe don't tell everyone that you're a fucking brokebrain? They don't have to know.

 

[Cyberfunk]

I thought there was no stigma, hell half of my friends are on therapy... But I don't think any of it helps because they still act the same way and have the same issues and anxieties, maybe it's just about having somebody to vent to if you can afford it of course.

As for medications, the side effects of anti depressants are enough for me to not want to take them, you do you of course.

 

[Coffee Shits]

If spending $90 a week to cry vaguely in the direction of some Starbucks-sipping, Volkswagen Jetta-owning emotional fuckrag feels good, fine, but no one wants to know.

Good idea:
"Hi there, how are you?"
"Doing well, thanks. How are you?"

Bad idea:
"Hi there, how are you?"
"Doing well, thanks. IT'S BECAUSE I'M IN THERAPY, WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MY TRIGGERS?"

 

[Question Mark]

Have fun being involuntarily committed to a mental institution if you tell them too much and permanently losing your Second Amendment rights.

 

[Kabuki Actor]

The new stigma is of being a teenage proto-soy boy communist.

 

[Lemmingwise]

I always thought it's fucked up that someone trying to either improve themselves or seek help is looked down upon and considered "weak" or "crazy".

First you have dysfunctional people that want to remain dysfunctional. They need to label psycho help as fucked up as a defense mechanism or they might end up there and have to deal with their dysfunction.

Second you have dysfunctional therapy / psychology. Any individual practice may be dysfunctional.

Third you have dysfunction of any academic endeavor. Things like the "thud" experiment have put the entire field into disrepute. The solution was to become more like doctors and prescribe medicine, but the overdiagnosis of adhd and the poor long term results of both typical adhd meds and ssri's have put the field back into disrepute.

Fourth there are a number of places that are competitive. Showing any type of weakness is a liability that others might seek to exploit. Where's the last president that said he needed regular therapy or had adhd? Or CEO?

So no, we can't carebear your protection. Needing help is literally weak. It might be the smart thing to do. It might long term be the best thing to do. But it is still weak. That's what weak means. You can try to redefine it as "strong enough to seek help" and there is a certain logic to it, but on the surface level it doesn't work.

And finally it's like sex. You don't need to tell everyone all the time that you're doing it. I know you care a lot but it is only mildly interesting to others at best.

 

[Not Really Here]

No.
Even if you eliminate the legal consequences, and the social ones, people will still avoid admitting they are different from the "normal" person.

 

[Tom Myers]

It is fucked beyond belief. The regular old SSRI saves lives every day and yet it's seen as weak.

Dying is easy - getting help is hard.

 

[Deadpool]

I've never ran into any stigma IRL, it's just edge lords online.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Have fun being involuntarily committed to a mental institution if you tell them too much and permanently losing your Second Amendment rights.

Good thing it's really hard to get involuntarily committed. It mostly happens if you've failed a suicide attempt. They don't have the funding or the space to commit every depressed person saying they have suicidal thoughts. Come into the ER with a few self inflicted cuts that need stitches? The chances of getting committed are slim.

 

[Finder]

I don’t care about therapy, if people want that it generally doesn’t cause too much harm. I think it’s a waste of time, so I won’t partake in that nonsense.

Drugs though? No way, I’ve seen those hurt too many people. We barely understand the brain and don’t really know how or why half of these drugs even work.

Those drugs are bad news and I would never take them, nor would I encourage anyone I know to take them.

 

[DumbDude42]

what stigma? go on twitter for a minute and half the people there have a list of all their claimed mental illnesses in their bios. they wear this shit like a badge of honor.

also therapists are quacks, and psych medicine is poison that does more damage than the conditions it is supposed to fix - and it doesn't actually fix them, at best it just temporarily suppresses or alters some of the patients symptoms

 

[Cheerlead-in-Chief]

Even too much of a mL of a drug can make anyone crazy.

And no matter how many psychology magazines/papers/websites are published for awareness, they can be exploited.
Also people now pretend to be crazy for clout.

 

[L50LasPak]

Probably when neurology matures as a science and psychology goes extinct. Then we'll be able to much more effectively treat the percieved malfuctions of the brain. Such as having emotions. Or a personality. Then the stigma will go away because we'll diagnose stigmatization of things as a toxic personality trait that must be erased.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

Revulsion towards the sick is a natural reaction that serves an evolutionary purpose. It shouldn't go away.

 

[Lemmingwise]

Come into the ER with a few self inflicted cuts that need stitches? The chances of getting committed are slim

Depends on your posting history.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Depends on your posting history.

Oh. See you guys in the fun house.

 

[Cheerlead-in-Chief]

Oh. See you guys in the fun house.

In COVID, you are only alone in your room and are obligated to be in common rooms as an incentive.

Threaten another patient, or anything else...your days are stretched