Discussion Isn't psychology a faith?

[Limitcel]

So there is a state of mind that you should always reach with the right treatments and in that state you will be satisfied with life and you will not commit suicide.
I think in other words: magic words or a treatment that will always put you in a state better than suicide.

Isn't that a kind of faith?
It's basically the same coping mechanism of an religion, but secularized in a (I don't know if really) scientific method.
"Everything will be okay"

The main belief is that there is something to be lived in this world that everyone must live (Even though there is no confirmation of this, and everything indicates that human life has no value and no meaning, it is just a cluster of billions of particles over billions of years)

This basically falls into the same idea that all lives have a purpose, that God or anything else created us for a reason (the main cope that religion generates)

I don't believe in mental health, I don't think there is a healthy state of being, or a right way to be, I don't think there is even a self.

 

[unborndegenerate]

NT chads are healthy and have a clear vision of life hence a healthy state of mind. We can cope with denying it but that would just be a cope

 

[Limitcel]

NT chads are healthy and have a clear vision of life hence a healthy state of mind. We can cope with denying it but that would just be a cope

They are just numbed by pleasures

 

[unborndegenerate]

They are just numbed by pleasures

not really,this state of nihilism we have is the result of multiple traumas we had been inflicted with

 

[Mecoja]

Only semi-sincere psychology I saw was things written by Victor Frankl. His point was that you need goals and purpose in life that fulfill you and make you happy, and if you cant achieve them, no point in living. No meds or pep talk can change that. I dont gaslight people, if I see a person has potential to be something in life, I decided to encourage them.

 

[Limitcel]

not really,this state of nihilism we have is the result of multiple traumas we had been inflicted with

If you take these things away from them, they will be in the same situation as us, pleasure only serves to blind the emptiness, emptiness is a more primordial and rational state.

(1) there is something to do;
(2) there is somewhere to go;
(3) there is something to be;
(4) there is someone to know
None of these things really exist, we are just animals that were born by chance into this world, there is no real cause for our life.

Only semi-sincere psychology I saw was things written by Victor Frankl. His point was that you need goals and purpose in life that fulfill you and make you happy, and if you cant achieve them, no point in living. No meds or pep talk can change that. I dont gaslight people, if I see a person has potential to be something in life, I decided to encourage them.

You basically need to invent a belief system then to deal with existential emptiness, that's what "goals" are, things that you believe will cure life's problems if you reach

He may be right but I don't think it's much superior to suicide

 

[Mecoja]

but I don't think it's much superior to suicide

I agree. One of main goals that transcends one's lifetime is creating a better conditions for your kids, and none of us will ever have kids so why do anything, it will be over pretty soon. I am religious, still i dont condemn the suicide, but dont condone it either, as life is too short anyway.

 

[despisedpaul]

psychology is an opinion, collectively asserted by liberal women who whored around in college because its an easy major. modern psychology is a detrimental pseudo science.

 

[BricABrac]

Well until you hear about formal undesirability or the law of non contradiction!

 

[light]

psychology is an opinion, collectively asserted by liberal women who whored around in college because its an easy major. modern psychology is a detrimental pseudo science.