Are you ready for me to diagnose your totally normal reaction to our shitty society as mental illness so I can get you addicted to mind altering drugs for the rest of your life?
I unironically think that psychology is just a vassal of fucking neoliberalism. We are turning people's exhaustion, suffering, rush and loneliness into a business. First, we make the sheep work so hard that their heads go crazy and then we stuff them with all this psy-op shit that will make their heads even more crazy. Then we give the shitty consultant class jobs as psychologists so that they offer "therapy" that is nothing more than neoliberalism in a new package. If a rich man says you are responsible for your happiness, he is bad, but if a therapist says you are responsible for your happiness, she is good. As if philosophers hadn't debunked Stoicism ages ago and as if it wasn't just one philosophical school of thought among others. But hey, if you question the paradigm of psychology, you're crazy. Yes, we are "scientific", although we don't let anyone falsify our "science" or else we'll call you crazy. What?! We have replication crisis?! No way?!
Not only the useless consultant class gets their money, Big Pharma gets their share too. Psychologist do their neoliberal gaslighting and then pharmacists profit off your suffering and at the worst case scenario, your addiction to their drugs.
High emphasis on "rest of your life" because, well, I've had two drugs in my life that have fucked me over.
First, sertraline. I was on sertraline my whole teenage years and that drug made me a completely cold person. It fucked up my life in two ways that still affect my life. When you don't feel anything, the threshold for committing crimes is lowered. I still can't live with myself when I think about what I was like back then. Secondly, when you don't feel anything, then when you stop taking the medication and finally start feeling something, you can't tolerate normalcy because you haven't learned to process and regulate emotions because you didn't have any emotions between the ages of 12 and 20. It leads to absolutely insane emotional instability.
Secondly, benzos. Self-evident. Anyone who has never taken benzos will not understand addiction. I was legally prescribed benzos, but they had to stop writing those prescriptions because I was completely addicted to them. And I still am, I've thought many times about buying them illegally but I don't want to get involved in anything. I'm not so addicted to them that I'd want to deal with junkies and pay ten times the price, but that's just a passing thought in the most hopeless moments.