Every negative emotion I have, I’m told to go to therapy.

Negative emotions are human!

Why have we, as a society, grown to fear them?

          • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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            24 days ago

            Cool. That’s sort of better… but it might not be, really.

            For instance, you’d think commisions are bad because they push salespeople to sell you things you don’t need. So you’d think NOT having commissions are GOOD; but that is marketing, because every salesperson has metrics and goals, and if they don’t meet them, there are consequences.

            Source: Worked at Best Buy, where customers were so happy that we didn’t take commission but didn’t know that our supervisors would chew us out if we didn’t sell a membership or get a credit card application.

            So it depends on how the system is implemented.

            • HikingVet@lemmy.ca
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              24 days ago

              Conflating therapists with sales people is a real good indicator that you need therapy.

              Not knowing whether public healthcare has good outcomes is one hell of an ignorant take.

              • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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                24 days ago

                Therapists and sales people both exist in a capitalist systems and so are under similar pressures. (Edit: Unless, of course, they aren’t! Assuming US context here, I can’t speak to every therapists in every country in the world).

                Here is one of MANY complaints from therapists about working in clinics where they are tracked on how many hours they are seeing clients / no shows / etc.

                https://www.reddit.com/r/therapists/comments/10nfc88/metrics/

                  • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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                    24 days ago

                    Yeah, a toxic system that is coloring my perspective on that toxic system?

                    I think therapy can be very helpful for people. If it’s helped you, that’s great!

                    However, nothing is above criticism, and to put anything above criticism is really dangerous.