/sci/ - Science & Math

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I know /sci/ dismiss it as anti-scientific but mostly because people don't know shit of what it is about.

The whole way to deal with these issues is different from any other medical treatment. I was 21 in 2010 and started seeing a lacanian psychoanalyst at that time, told my whole life story, was diagnosed with depression, was even recommended to see a psychiatrist and get meds, which I declined (never took meds). And continued to go there weekly for 5 years. It's expensive and long (cheaper than meds though). Some really shit times I went two or three times a week, but by the end of it I was going once a month until I stopped going. I thought about quitting a lot of times, but only in the first year or so when I was thinking it was bullshit.

Seriously, the whole thing is a different take. Depression is a physical condition and close to a "hole that you can't climb out without help no matter how much you try" because of how your brain can't process shit the same way when you are depressed, we all know that. And it's also linked with not engaging yourself with life, hence why people recommend religion, being part of a community, going out, going to the gym, etc, external stimuli that affect the way your brain works. But to me, nothing affects the brain as much as our ideas, our thoughts about ourselves and the world, about what we value and what we imagine. Talking there and listening to what I was saying with the help of the analyst helped me in a lot of different ways. It's ruthless against your own bullshit, your excuses, your attempts to not see the problems that are right in front of you. Sometimes I got out of sessions worse than how I came in, but during the week that feeling usually went away and I was thankful that I went there.

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How is Psychoanalysis, is there actual employment in it?