Every negative emotion I have, I'm told to go to therapy.

Negative emotions are human!

Why have we, as a society, grown to fear them?

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[–] -3 points 1 month ago (11 children)

everyone could benefit from a personal trainer too!

should everyone have personal trainers?

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    Actually yeah, if everyone could check in with a personal trainer every month or two for free, that would probably return many times the value of its cost through how much healthier it would make the population in the long term

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    that would probably return many times the value of its cost

    This seems like a testable hypothesis.

    Personally, I'm skeptical that it would offer significant benefits over much cheaper interventions.

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  • [+] -8 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    cool, do you live in a world where money grows on trees too?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    No, money grows in the pocketbooks of the rich because we let them avoid paying their fair share.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Yeah, I don't need one because I can take care of my own workout routines myself.

    Almost as if... not everyone needs therapy either for the minor inconveniences of life...

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Almost as if you deliberately ignored the operative word "could" in my original reply so that you could pretend I thought everyone should be forced to see a personal trainer and get mad about that

    When people have the choice to receive benefits, they typically only do so when they would actually benefit. People without a problem they believe therapy can address typically won't choose to see a therapist, for the same reason you would not choose to see a personal trainer.

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