The Mental Health Mistrust

I see a therapist every Tuesday, have for just over a year now, and one of the things I've talked about is my huge distrust of the mental health field, and how it all started with my misdiagnosis and the dutiful taking of medications from a psychiatrist I certainly felt I didnt matter to, for 8 years, making myself worse. I had countless therapists disappear without warning, I was hospitalized four times and had people on the psych ward tell me "You better yourself together or you'll end up in the state hospital". 

My social media feeds are filled with what I feel are too simple a solution to complex PTSD with generalized anxiety and severe depression. I've called a lot of these people and places out for preying on the desperation of people and offering them false hope.

I decided recently to have a consult with a hypnotherapist I found on my feed and the conversation, while going well for the most part, started steering itself towards conversation regarding psychiatry and medications. I listened, and agreed that a multi-pronged, multi-faceted healing process, past just therapy and TCH/CBD tinctures is something for me to look at. 

This individual told me I was allowed to text them or message them on ***. I poured my heart out to them on text, both thanking them for the conversation and insight, while also stating why I felt psychiatry and medications was not a path I trusted, with medications typically having more adverse side effects than actual benefits, as well as feeling like psychiatrists in my area are not to be trusted. 

All it got in reply was "Sounds good 👍"

It hurt. It fostered. So I left this "Anxiety Support Group" she had set up, some of it with rather condescending and abrasive beliefs about healing and went off on her on messenger, telling her how dismissive her reply was and how she's just like the rest I've encountered online, preying on the desperate with false hope. I dont care how much the Internet says hypnotherapy is beneficial to those with PTSD. I think its an absolute crock, and all those who practice it should be ashamed of themselves for making people believe it actually works when it doesn't.