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WHAT KIND OF COACHING, COUNSELING, THERAPY, MEDICAL CARE DO YOU NEED
(riffing off a friend’s post)

Having been on the spectrum and worked my way thorough it I’ve had plenty of experience with the mental health industry – more positive than negative but the negative was VERY negative. So my work on AI , neuroscience, and cognitive science has given me insights into the failings of the field. And I see the industry as unfortunately needing to continue to transition (reform) out of the hole it dug itself into prior to 2000 – for over a century – just at a tie when our people need it more than at any time in history.

Coaching, Therapy, Psychiatry, and Behavioral Modification by everything from ‘suggestion’, to repetition, to shocks, to hallucinogenics to surgery can work. 😉

IMO the various versions of ketamine are the most effective, fast, and durable means of altering negative thoughts and their consequences. But I doubt that we will ever escape the need for pharmaceuticals if modern levels of stress across the spectrum aren’t alleviated through ‘ritual’ meaning ‘training’ means, early enoug in life to serve as a prophylactic.

So:
(1) Coaching (enhancement therapy) is almost always effective if you find someone who can sympathize with your cognitive and emotional framework. I have a problem with this term because some people are in fact therapists and others are simply randomly adopting this term as ‘advisors’ or ‘friendly advice you pay for’. So I would rather see a new field between coaching and therapy. But at present the problem is determining the criteria for licensing someone to use that term.

(2) Therapy (corrective therapy) is a systematic process of suggestion, training, and education, and can be effective but it is more dependent on sympathy with your frameworks than is coaching – and about 80% of therapists are just bad at it, and of the remaining 20%, most are using outdated feminine paradigms, when people like Noah Revoy (coaching) and Taraban (therapy) have completed the transition of the industry out of that debilitating infantilizing depressing model of therapy. I use therapy like most people use the doctor. When I have a problem and I don’t want to burden family, friends, girlfriend, wife, business partners etc, I just make an appointment and usually I can work thorugh ordinary life issues in as few as three weeks, and as long as a couple of months.

3) Psychiatry works just fine, though the same 80/20 rule applies, but the ‘filtering’ process given that it’s effectively a medical degree will often produce better talent at a higher cost.

Within Psychiatry the following techniques work just fine, Why? Because you’re trying to cause different neural pathways to organize – and neurons are plastic – and can adapt if you find a way to adapt them, when prevarication and obsession on stressors trauma and other odd behaviors and depressions continually reinforce those networks.

So to alter your behavior you have to ‘overstimulate’ some other neural network in order to ‘bypass’ and develop different networks of association:
… (1) Hypnotherapy etc: though there are genetic reasons some of us are more or less susceptible to suggestion. This is a very ‘light touch’ means of altering the behavior of some people in the population.
… (2) Cognitive Behavioral Therapy will adjust minor oddities like irrational fears by repetitions of exposure to the stresses until you’ve trained some network or other to interpret it as other than a risk. (BTW: fear of heights is genetic, sorry.)
… (3) Shock Therapy such as cold therapy as stated above works for trauma and should try it first.
… (4) Ketamine therapy (or any related version) will almost certainly work for depression and trauma
… (5) Pharmaceuticals will work if either a) you need an immediate relief (xanax etc), (b) or it’s a biological rather than trauma problem such as social anxiety, panic disorders, chronic depression, in my case autistic difficulty switching topics, and many cases of ADD (which would not exist if most boys were not forced to sit in chairs in classrooms)
… (6) and even surgery can be required in some extreme cases – (sarcasm:) Even though it appears that the use of lobotomy hasn’t been fully suppressed given the number of radical leftists out there…. 😉

Personal: Pharmaceuticals do work. The problem is they can also hurt you – and often irreversibly. (I had a lighter version of the same reaction as Jordan Peterson). It’s not good.) 😉 I’m perfectly happy without OCD and ADD medication. However, it seems to annoy the heck out of people around me now and then. Because while it’s a profound asset at times, the inability to switch contexts or even ‘hear’ or pay attention to others is just, well annoying to them. 😉

Hope this helps someone.
Cheers
CD