Therapy is Bullshit: Why Talking About Your Problems Feels Like Shuffling a Rigged Deck
You want the truth?
Therapy is practically useless in most cases.
Not because you’re weak, but because the game itself is crooked.
It doesn’t solve your problems…
It often keeps them alive.
Worse, it’s a business that profits when you stay broken.
The Illusion of “Talking it Out”
The only real value of therapy?
Exporting your emotions for a moment.
You cry, you vent, you talk…
And suddenly you feel lighter.
Like exhaling after holding your breath underwater.
That’s emotional recycling.
It’s healthy.
It works.
But here’s the trick no one tells you:
90% of the benefit happens in the first few sessions.
After that?
You’re stuck in The Dwelling Phase…
Reliving the same trauma like a bad rerun.
Therapists love the Dwelling Phase.
Why wouldn’t they?
The longer you dwell, the longer you pay.
Keeping the Wound Open
Imagine this:
You’re 30, and your self-esteem is garbage because you were bullied at 12.
You go to therapy.
Session one: “Tell me what happened.”
Session two: “How did it make you feel?”
Session thirty-four: “And how did that make you feel?”
Brother, if they have to ask, they already know the answer.
It made you feel like shit.
Constantly digging up the wound isn’t healing…
Its necromancy.
It resurrects ghosts you should’ve buried years ago.
Sometimes the healthiest thing you can do?
Let the old you die.
Therapy = Emotional Impotence
Let me ask you something real:
You’re broke.
Your wife divorces you.
She takes your house.
You’re paying alimony and only see your kid twice a month.
You really think an hour on a couch is going to fix that?
You think reliving childhood memories is going to make her stop cashing your checks?
Therapy can calm you down.
But calm doesn’t fix court papers, child custody, or an empty bank account.
Firmware Hacks: Dangerous and Overrated
Therapy is like letting someone patch your mental firmware.
One bad patch…
One incompetent therapist…
And your whole system glitches.
I’ve seen it.
A therapist uses personal bias, unresolved bitterness, or just sheer incompetence…
And suddenly you’re running someone else’s code.
Sometimes intentionally.
Most of the time for money.
They keep you coming back.
“Tell me more about your mother.”
Translation: Keep the meter running.
Free Therapy
You don’t need a $200/hour shrink to unload pain.
Talk to a friend you trust.
Or write it out.
Or scream in your car until your throat bleeds…the soundproof kind of therapy.
Get it out.
Purge it.
Move on.
Because therapy doesn’t heal wounds.
Action does.
Depression: Not a “Head” Problem
Depression isn’t always chemical.
Most of the time?
It’s situational.
You’re broke.
Lonely.
Overweight.
Stuck.
That’s not a Prozac deficiency…
That’s life kicking your ass.
Win the lottery tomorrow…
See how fast your “chemical imbalance” balances out.
Change your external situation…
Money, purpose, health, tribe…
And watch the fog lift.
The Real Cure
Stop scratching your head about the past.
Stop “processing” your trauma for the 400th time.
Fix your external reality.
Stack cash.
Get strong.
Build leverage.
Find meaning.
Because healing isn’t about dwelling.
Healing is about burying the old you and building the new one from the ground up.
Therapy can hand you tissues.
But it won’t teach you how to count cards in a crooked casino.
-Beau Magic 🃏