Being a graduate from 3 years of studying psych and with an active experience of mental illness, I can say that no amount of studying theory and doing therapy+ taking meds for years helped me realize the root of my problems and my worth as a human. more than Marxist analysis. I live to be a part of the revolution, and as long as psychotherapy reinforces the client to believe in themselves and to accept the realities of it is what it is, it will never achieve its job of liberating the person. There is a need for psychology to gain a Marxist perspective, more so from modern day leftists in the mental health field.

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    I was diagnosed with schizophrenia despite never having any positive symptoms. Recently when I was talking to my shrink she said that the main motivation for giving me the diagnosis was that insurance companies won’t cover treatment without it. Fuck private medicine.

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          @ThatMagickBastard

          The talking cure is amazing when you and your therapist work well together, but the root of so much mental illness is capitalism that psych practitioners can only do so much. They basically just medicate/train you to function in this hell. That’s not really mental health

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            They basically just medicate/train you to function in this hell.

            You’ll have a significantly harder time tearing down this hell to build something new if you can’t function in this hell. To that end, therapy has its uses.