Cognitive Therapy is Bullshit

In reality, cognitive therapy isn't 'changing your thinking' as much as it is - 'attempting to brainwash yourself with obsessing over what you want to change repeatedly and hoping for different results'.

I loathe both the psychological and psychiatric communities. I despise their arrogance & their pretense of authority; both features are present because they have a story to sell you. It's not about helping people. It's not about the truth. It's about diagnosing you into a tidy category and doping you up with medication for that sweet money. These 'professionals' will never admit to being wrong, even to the point of malpractice.

Furthermore: the brain hasn't evolved to be perfectly rational and objective. We are irrational, imperfect, moody creatures. I believe that an intelligent person can see through the artificial narrative of modern society. One aim of cognitive therapy is to 'fake it until you make it'. I reject this. I don't want to be fake. I don't enjoy pretending that life is something that it's not. I don't enjoy pretending I can be something I am not. Maybe that's why I'm so miserable, and if I'd just conform and GO ALONG WITH THE LIES, I would be happier... right? Take the pills and pretend the depression/anxiety is gone. Starve yourself thin and pretend your autoimmune disease will be cured. Just pretend to be happy, so no one else has to deal with you pointing out the truth of this world. Because that's uncomfortable for them .

Life can be really bleak. I don't know why so many people want to pretend that it's not. That said - there's good along with the bad.

My reasoned (rational) responses to my environment, my personal situation, and the people around me cannot be fixed with cognitive behavioral therapy. I can't think myself into a better world.

Sure, I can attempt to brainwash myself into thinking the world is fine and I'm just 'wrong' and I need to change myself to better accept this world and all the horrible shit that happens in it. What does that solve, really? Losing myself?

Do I really hate myself that much that I want to destroy who I am just to change for other people or the world (society) in general?! That is getting to the root of things - The truth that cognitive therapy seems to be the exact opposite of actual self-help or self-love.

That is why I'm forcing myself to confront these topics. I have found therapy 100% useless, in all forms. It's beneficial to explore why.

Draw your own conclusions.