rant · moment 13 of 17
Why 75% of Therapy Is Garbage
from 181- Low Cost, High Quality | The Tim Dillon Show · #181
12 min
Tim delivers an extended take that most therapy is useless, that people should compartmentalize pain instead of endlessly processing it, and that many therapists are unqualified people cashing in on a culture obsessed with self-care.
- Tim's premise: 75% of all therapy is useless garbage designed to make you endlessly excavate your past instead of compartmentalizing it.
- Compartmentalize your trauma into a lockbox like Al Gore's Social Security proposal, then open it only when appropriate—at bars, in cars, during sad songs.
- Most therapists are useless people; Tim's friend Michelle, a three-times-divorced couples therapist, exemplifies the con.
- A few therapists are genuinely good and some people truly need help, but many have college degrees and no direction, so they charge to listen.
- Society has convinced everyone they must get to the bottom of everything and make peace with everyone, which is why therapists make millions of dollars.
- Some of the most successful people never make peace with their trauma; their unresolved anger actually drives their achievement.
- Most people in therapy have lived nice, enviable lives; meanwhile, people who genuinely got destroyed can't afford it.
- You don't have to talk about your problems because you don't have to think about them—just lock them away and retrieve them when needed.
- Most therapy is really people wanting to stay in the horrible relationship or wrong job while somehow being happy, asking therapists for coping mechanisms instead of making different choices.