let me pull up my copypasta on this: i'm going to let you in on a little secret, anon. major psych organizations are literally the last people you should trust about this shit. they are the foxes guarding the henhouses. go visit a psych ward sometime in a hospital. ask around what people are planning to be when they go to school/work. if it's not some bullshit "artist" or "musician" dream, it's "psych major". seems obvious when you think about it. psychology is an enormous part of their lives and they invest a lot of time thinking about it. they have interest in it, as it greatly affects them. getting into the field might just be what they need! alternatively, the psychiatrist is sometimes the strongest parental figure in their lives, and everyone wants to grow up to be just like "dad" don't they? one way or another, they're all fuggin psych majors.  well there's a problem there, isn't there? you end up with nuts and whackjobs getting to define what makes someone a nut and a whackjobs. that's not even the worst part. calling someone a whackjob isn't very nice is it? so we can't call people whackjobs anymore can we? in consequences of removing the "whackjob" description, stooges like you think that means they're not whackjobs anymore, because we don't [can't] officially call them that! no, none of your bullshit, asspulled "huhr duhr everyone says it's the most effective" is supported by anything. even if you look at the studies that purport to support them, the studies admit in the abstracts that the data is probably all bullshit and fudged by reporting agencies that don't want to admit how many of their patients blew their own heads off.
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