Re:Have we overestimated the effectiveness of psychotherapy?
by bachbach on Saturday July 14, 2018 @07:06PM
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It is easy to dismiss 'get laid' as boorish and interpret 'did you get enough sleep?' or get out more' as semi-accusatory, because we're prone to thinking crude feedback is less apt for us, we must be more complex than this.
Look at the rise of ASMR videos. Millions of people desire an experience,a simulation, of being touched in a non-sexual way. This isn't a critique of ASMR - it's fine - but there's this simple need at the heart of it - little different to those gorillas grooming each other.
There's a running gag in AMSR circles where the ASMR viewer is interrupted by somebody and reacts by <laptop lid slam> pretending they were watching porn.
Hackerspaces and makerspaces are a great thing. I heard a quote recently "Women communicate, men shoulder to shoulder".
It also happens that some very depressed and anxious people will e.g. read only the "criticisms" portion of the Wikipedia page for the hierarchy concept, and determine in the end that what they need is an experienced professional rather than a possibly-unscientific concept. This is really sad to observe, because their inability to be open to certain kinds of information can make them more dependent, not less.