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To think therapists are mostly charlatans?

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BlueJuniper94 · 18/02/2026 21:51

I've heard in real life of people who have made radical decisions/changes in their lives because of what a "therapist" has said to them. Things that have surprised me as it seems outside the scope of what I thought therapists are there to do (although it's perhaps not entirely clear what that is now).

Today I was listening to woman's hour where a woman being interviewed about her husband walking out on her and her kids tried to keep it from them for a month as per her therapists advice which she said looking back was the wrong thing to do. I am surely this therapist was handsomely paid nonetheless. Aibu?

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AntiHop · 18/02/2026 21:59

"Most" therapists are charlatans? What a ridiculous sweeping statement.

CaragianettE · 18/02/2026 21:56

I don’t necessarily think they’re charlatans, but from my own experience I wonder if some of them are just not that good. I was thinking how many celebrities seem to put quite a bit more faith in therapy than I do, and I wonder if that’s because they can just afford better therapists.

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