Therapy doesn't fix reality.
this post was submitted on 18 May 2026
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I mean for some it can help them accept and process reality a little better.
it is no sign of good health to be properly adapted to a profoundly sick society
It helps to survive. You can still critizice the fucked system while suffering less from it. Often that's the best one can do.
It has nonzero value for many but that doesn’t elevate it to the status that we should shake our heads at people who don’t go. Like this tweet does.
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And you become part of what makes it sick if you don't have they tools to develop a deeper self awareness. I was profoundly skeptical of therapy for a long time, and also thought myself very self aware. But with a good therapist you can uncover enormous blind spots and generally improve how you treat yourself an others. Society is built by those within it.
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Dude was out at sea for a month and tried to find a positive from it and peeps decided to be sexist about it
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Therapy won't make the world they have to go back to any better than it was before.
Well, to be fair, neither will getting lost at sea
Assuming you're rescued. But there's a chance you'll get to die without answering another passive aggressive email....ahhh. one can dream.
No, but on a remote uninhabited island you can pretend the bullshit doesn't exist.
It's incredibly hard to delude yourself when something is in front of yourself face. Although this is apparently a flaw in me, as most people seem perfectly capable of it.
Yeah, wtf does therapy even do? My brain is fucked because of the reality of my situation not because I have some dysfunctional mindset I need to work through. It's all external factors. Having to grind away at a job I hate just to scrape by while everything continues to get more expensive, billionaires burning the world, and our government falls to fascists is fucking hell. You'd have to be crazy not to have a fucked up mentality. Am I supposed to spend even more money I don't have just to talk about my problems?
Alternatively being able to completely disconnect from all this shit for a month where I have no choice but to simply focus on survival sounds pretty great.
Therapy is mostly about meditation, coping strategies, and self-improvement.
I think you might balk at the suggestion of developing coping strategies at all, but this:
being able to completely disconnect from all this shit for a month
Is a coping strategy. It doesn't really fix anything, but it does help you manage stress. I assume you can't take a month off, so therapy would say, "Okay, what's a second idea."
The problem with therapy is when you don't share the life goals of the therapist or the people trying to help you, you end up in a gridlock. I have never had a productive experience with therapists as an adult and I don't have infinite money to keep trying. My experiences with therapist or other support people in the public school system was downright evil as they wanted me to accomplish their life goals rather then my own.
I know why I'm depressed. I'm depressed because the world is broken and the people that want to do something about it are stonewalled by the people who benefit from it being broken. The elites that know they benefit from it being broken and view that are the natural order and their delusional followers who carved out a bit of limited success in their "professionalism." Those "professionals" fill the school system and hamper kids who could do better and brainwash them to settle for financial success.
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Being lost at sea for 30 days is the therapy
Too bad he got rescued a day early then.
That last day is where it really sticks/integrates long-term. Too bad.
Is therapy really that good? I know lots of folks that have been to therapy. They’re still shit.
Therapy allowed me to let my guard down enough to see who I really am. That was pretty invaluable. Not easy or fun, but worth.
Yes...but have you tried a 29 day, 696 hour vacation on a boat?
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I don't think it's just as simple as going to therapy but I've been in therapy for years and I'm the happiest I've ever been. I really got to work through stuff that I had been dealing with for years. I think it's hard to figure it out on your own, but I don't think a therapist is the only thing you need.
Just do AI therapy!
It will tell you you're great, and you won't have to risk any emotional vulnerability with a real person!
You're also very much into spirals now.
If you have very thoughtful friends or family members that you talk to and can be honest with about.... Everything, then that fits the bill.
Also if it's just the "someone to listen to you" thing there are other free alternatives e.g online (with the extra anonymity, which is nice) or to a catholic/orthodox/high anglican priest, or to a volunteer counselling group (one big one exists in my city).
If you're not willing or feeling the need to give it a try, I would recommend reading about psychological concepts. Or just watch someone such as Daniel Mackler and you might learn to heal yourself through osmosis.
If you genuinely want to change and find a therapist who can help you find the right resources to do it, it's invaluable.
The sea doesn't bill by the hour.
The copay is 'can you find a coconut today?'
It's not a break from reality. It IS reality. It's just that human nests - any conquered space of nature, be it urban or rural - has a habit of becoming a panopticon torture complex that we don't very much enjoy being in
I have been and still am in therapy for a couple of years now. I would still like to be lost at sea to get such a break. (Provided I can easily survive that.)
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I'm in therapy and I'd still like a month away on a remotely uninhabited island.
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I think the point is that the reality of the world is currently shit and it sucks so it was nice to forget about that for a bit. It wasn't that he had some trauma he could ignore.
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Tbh that does sound kind of nice right about now.
Shit moves so fast you'd come back to a completely different world. Itd be like the planet of the apes
Back to the island it is then!
Anybody would rather be lost at sea for 29 days than be forced to participate in a rigged economy
Yeah!
I love the sea. Its the most peaceful thing we have on this planet.
Until the next storm.
Even storms are beautiful to me. When not in a boat. :)
i remember when i was like 8 years old and at a boat while there was a storm outside. it was the beautiful kind of scary, the moment where you start thinking "ok whatever happens, i can't change it, so i might as well vibe with the situation".
The irony is that living stranded on an island is a return to reality, not an escape from it.
Yes. Yes, I would...
yeah, its a shame we got lost. Luckily we had plenty of fuel.
Got em!
I must have shit luck because in my experience most therapists are terrible at their jobs and unprofessional to boot
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