Shannon's OF 5.75G Experience

[Darkness]

Unfortunately, finding the root of the issue is of no interest to most of the psychological or medical community, because solving the problem ends the profit flow.  So they rely on the pill-or-knife dichotomy to make a profit, and who cares what happens to the patient?  Hopefully at the very least, my work will show that the root reasons for some of these issues is psychogenic and needs to be dealt with as such, not through endless pills and profit seeking.

I'm actually reading a book at the moment, and part of it is delving into CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) and how it's being pushed so much as the 'ultimate thing' because it's also paired with drugs for depression, and is being pushed by the pharmaceutical companies.

I knew of this with other medical drugs but never considered it in this case. And it confirms what I discovered for myself, that CBT isn't very effective at all past a little bit temporarily. It did little to me, and having people tell me "You just have to force yourself to change your thoughts" and similar processes never helped much.

And then the book expands and says that alot of people feel worse because of that, because they feel like "Well CBT is sold to us as the best thing ever, as effective, and it doesn't work for me, so what's wrong with me".

And that alot more needs to be done than just 'changing your thoughts'. I'm glad I know this now because occasionally i've had people tell me how great CBT is, even though it's not working for them that well.  

So now I have more information on it.

Same sentiments here towards CBT. It’s akin to playing charades.

What’s your take on EMDR?