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Weecha t1_j851lj9 wrote

I just can’t wait to tell my psychiatrist everything and walk out with it still in my mind, running on repeat, every day, at every hour… and the psychiatrist just gets to clock out and bill me or my insurance company hundreds. They just won’t get it, and I don’t expect them to. Their expensive empathy has zero effect on my mental health. Just give me my Zoloft and stop making me come in here.

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Neurotic_Bakeder t1_j86twb0 wrote

Psychiatrists are kinda famous within mental health fields for really struggling with empathy. They're deeply entrenched in the disease model, which isn't super compatible with clients' lived experiences, and med school is....a lot.

Finding a therapist you vibe with can help (though I'm biased as hell, being a therapist myself). It doesn't fix things, necessarily, but it can at least make you feel like you're not shouting into the wind.

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Weecha t1_j8750n3 wrote

It doesn’t matter who I tell. Doesn’t make me feel any better about any of it. I’m just one of those people that doesn’t get anything from therapy. Drug me.

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