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Wow holy shit this comparison is so absurd it makes me think your reasoning has been compromised by your financial incentives

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@nosilverv

Oct 6, 2020

I mean equivocating someone who went through 4 years education and specific training in trying to help others with someone who "sits there and nods and asks basic questions" is just really preposterous.

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I used to think therapists were authoritative/trained, but I now have a very low opinion of them. I think, in general, most therapists are probably broken people who got a rubber stamp of a degree and they actually have little ability to reason about minds independently.

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i came to this conclusion after trying out therapists in my area when I needed help with a problem. They all were absolutely useless and I was honestly shocked at how unskilled and how many basic mistakes they were making. I was like 'wow, their certification means nothing.'

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I believe all of the things that you're saying to be the case and them to be a consequence of rising credentialism and *yet* you must agree that there is something to the actual science and practice of psychology/therapy which - at its best - is invaluable, in a way OF cannot be

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I agree that some therapists can help in a way most OF girls can't. I also think in person sex work is *way* more therapeutic (and probably often more beneficial than therapy) than online sex work, and I think most people from the outside severely underestimate this.

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>I also think in person sex work is *way* more therapeutic (and probably often more beneficial than therapy) than online sex work I buy that in person beats online. I would be surprised but am open to the possibility of it also being more beneficial than therapy.

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> in a way most OF girls can't is this the main value OF girls are providing? Online sex therapy as a service? (even if that's not what they call it?)

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Approving attention from an attractive woman is the service they're providing. It's not really sex therapy, in that most girls aren't like... actively working with you through problems, but imo is more analogous to like... getting through your day by taking asprin.

7:22 PM · Oct 6, 2020

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An alternative analogy is schizophrenics getting through their day by smoking a lot. Turns out tobacco has mild anti-psychotic properties, so basically when schizophrenics smoke they are often self-medicating.