@usagi @lina

I did not state this in this thread - it's common knowledge among friends, so I felt no need to state it - the last time I willingly went to a therapist, I was encouraged to commit suicide. As someone who was in a vulnerable position, I eventually made an attempt on my life due to this. I was forced into a psych ward and poisoned with SSRIs, as they insisted that such events do not happen.

If there were good therapists, such things would simply not happen. In my personal life, I only hear negative stories about the behavior of therapists: I do not encounter people who claim to be better because of them, and I interact with people who have similar stories. It is clear from my perspective that the death of every therapist would be a boon to our country.

To carry out your analogy: if surgeons operated on broken arms by shooting the patient, then you would not trust surgeons! Similarly, we should not deliver mentally ill people to psychotherapists or psychiatrists, as they behave in similar fashions.