I feel like modern mental health treatment and therapy is in the dark ages of medicine. It seems like pseudoscience or basically the modern equivalent of voodoo.
What I mean is everyone tells you to go to therapy or take medications for your anxiety and depression assuming that will fix you like going to a doctor for a broken leg will where they just need to put you in a cast for a few months. But that doesn't seem to be helping most people at all. I've tried therapy for years, I've been to at least 10 or 12 different therapists. In the beginning I would only go for maybe 2 or 3 months but I couldn't afford to keep going so I would stop plus I never felt like I was making any "progress" at all. Then I got kaiser insurance through covered California and therapy was free so I would start seeing a therapist and would stay with them for at least 4-6 months, sometimes almost a year but they never seemed to help at all.
All or most kaiser therapists seem to always use "cognitive behavioral therapy" and would imply that therapy should only last 4-6 weeks until you start seeing "improvements". But there style of therapy never seemed to help me at all. I would try to tell them details about my personal thoughts and feelings or problems and they would always seem to completely ignore them and try to recommend some "tool" to deal with my feelings of anxiety or depression. And on the surface in theory it kind of made sense but I could never really understand or figure out how to implement their tools in my life on a daily basis that made any difference in how I experienced life. And even before I saw these therapists I knew about cognitive behavioral therapy and even read a few books about it, like the famous book "feeling good" by david burns which I thought was a good book and a good theory but still couldn't understand how to implement the theory from that book into my real life.
Anyways, I was thinking about how in the middle ages (or sometime a long time ago) the modern science then believed that when a person was sick it was in their blood and they would "blood let" them to get the toxins out. Which we know now is completely insane and counterproductive. I just feel like our modern understanding of mental health is in the stage of "blood letting". Therapists think they are doing the right thing and helping us but they really aren't and are making things worse is some or most cases.
I'm drunk and am being pressured by family to "go to therapy" again and just felt like making this rant. I could tell them these thoughts but they would just argue back that I'm making excuses and being argumentative or that I'm not trying hard enough to change. It's also hard to "try to change" when you don't even trust the concept of free will and you've been "trying to change" ever since middle school.
TLDR: I've been trying therapy for years and have seen no difference other than wasted time and maybe it filled the void of my loneliness for an hour every other week. I truly think that the modern state of mental health treatment is where physical medicine was centuries ago and most mental health treatment is the modern version of "voodoo". I'm also mildly drunk and have nothing better to do than make pointless posts on reddit. There's also more I want to add to this post but don't want to burden people with having to waste their time reading.