How many of you have zero friends? Like u have no one My therapist can't believe it's possible and thinks I'm to self depreciating like I'm gaslighting myself that I have no true friends but I literally have 0
>>84919469It's pretty well documented that a huge number of men don't have many friends. I don't know how many report 0 but I'd guess at least 5%.It's amazing someone can be in that line of work and be that fucking ignorant.
>>84919469I only have 1 online friend that I met on 4chan. Haven't had irl friends since grade school. I've also encountered therapists who refuse to believe this for some reason.
>>84919498>>84919502it's probably due to the particular flavor of niggerfaggot that whines about how they're like sooo lonely and such a loser and have like literally no friends and then 2 minutes later they're talking about how they went out with their friends yesterday
>>84919534Well those niggerfaggots do exist and are probably overrepresented in therapy, I think therapists are just normalniggers on top of mostly being foids and have a serious mental block that renders them incapable of confronting things that make them uncomfortable.
>>84919469I have online people that I would like to call frens, although I doubt they see me the same. I have zero irl friends, I have only spoken a grand total of 9 words to non family people since last year.
>>84919551therapists should be required to go to therapy before they can be therapists. like, full on psychoanalysis, so they can understand how to be more open by acknowledging their biases and shadow desu
>>84919469Sen;>ive had zero friends since highschool.
>>84919691Most of them probably do, normalfag foids love therapy. What you mean is they should have to confront their blind spots. Modern therapy just reinforces narcissism. I have said to therapists, it doesn't matter if YOU sympathize with my feelings, it matters if my actions are adaptive in the real world.
>>84919964no, I mean what I said. there are different forms of therapy. there are forms that address blind spots (what I explicitly referred to in my post as biases and the shadow). this is what i'm talking about. i'm also talking about things like transference, if you know what that is. the thing is, you have to meet yourself where you are to change. most therapists are trash, though.
>>84919469The closest I have are my 2 coworkers but I'm leaving that job in a month because I wasn't able to renew my lease, so I'm moving back in with my parents to become a temporary NEET
>>84920087I guess psychoanalysis is rarely practiced anymore so you didn't mean typical therapy. I think there is a study that says most therapists don't practice or understand the methodology they advertise correctly, like CBT, but also that it doesn't matter and what works is merely talking to someone. I would believe that's true for the insubstantive temporary shit foids go to therapy for.
>>84920111What happened to your lease anon did they raise the rent?
>>84920121no, it's still practiced, but the biggest problem with modern therapy is actually insurance. insurance wants you in and out, so it forces therapists to essentially do a fastfood version of therapy. analysis takes a lot of time, especially for those with deep rooted issues, and it a process that never actually ends. there is always more content being created. connection and having somewhere to be totally honest and get opinions from someone not involved can be helpful. women are already naturally inclined to speaking about their feelings, so the process can go smoother for them. for us guys, that's a whole skill we have to learn for it to work.
>>84919469Same I got zero. My therapist was also shocked.
>>84920183Nah you lost me there. As a physicalist I can't buy into "it's a process that can't be explained" and as a moid I can't buy into feelings. That might be a valid lens but not the only one and men want to understand raw mechanics and fasttrack solutions. That's why men don't stay in therapy.Insurance is right not to pay for this. I'm rich and I stopped paying for it out of pocket.Look at the rigamarole to get an ASD diagnosis when there's overwhelming evidence of a litany of phenotypal correlates that could be used as signals. Psychology is not efficient and has no desire to be because that would deligitimize their entire field, worldview and source of income.
>>84920212the human mind is not efficient. there are plenty of backwards things about it. things that are meant to help, but end up hurting us, etc. it's complicated and can't be generalized. every single human is unique, even if there are through lines. humans have emotions for a reason and they must be reckoned with and understood, otherwise they'll control your life. not saying you need to sit in them, but you need to understand them.
>>84920225that's nonfalsifiable and that's my entire problem with your take. your assertion that it's impossible to do better doesn't make it so.
>>84920235i'm sorry but i'm confused, what are you talking about? when did i say anything like that?
blame the millions of normies who have """problems""" but are probably just some form of narcissist who want the "i'm in therapy i'm so broken" stamp, or they have no idea how good they actually have it and are just ignorant assholesi've seen someone in a discord wave their "diagnosed autist" status around all the time and that person turned out to have a massive social circle and all they do is lead a completely normal life and being a social butterfly 24/7, that's the kind of stuff i'm talking about, just completely blind
>>84919469I have zero (0) friends. I don't talk to anyone online or irl except for my familySomeone i went to high school with messaged me after ~6 years since we last saw each other and I don't have the energy or willpower to reply.
>>84920250Falsifiability is self-descriptive, read your own statements and ask how you would attempt to prove or disprove them or if they're positioned to be impervious to attack. You also claim is also that clinical psychology can't be made faster than it currently is, which I disagree with.If it was cost effective, insurance would pay for it. That industry is the reality check on many aspects of life despite people's hatred of it, whether it's medical treatment or whether your house is about to burn down. They are experts in analyzing ROI.
>>84920286i didn't ever make a claim like that. you're making the wrong assumptions. i'm just explaining it how i see it. i think that longterm psychoanalysis is the way, and you could gather that from what i've written. my opinions are based on studying psychology very deeply, especially trauma and depth psychology.not everything can be made efficient. it's just life. some things are more complicated and take time to unravel. what works for me may not work for you, just giving my experience and take.
>>84920302>analysis takes a lot of time>the human mind is not efficienteh that's the direction you were pointing whether or not you stated the thesis directly
Therapists are scammers. I have one friend irl. I can't make new male friends because straight men don't want friends past college age.
>>84919469Everyone always have God as a Friend, even if you choose to ignore Him.
