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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Therapy IS expensive and time-consuming.  Few providers take any form of insurance, and insurance companies are miserly at best in dealing with families facing mental health crises.

Here's the thing: recovery from serious mental illness is a life-long project, one that does not follow a straight line of upward progress, but involves a lot of setbacks and regression.

Have two years of therapy fixed my kid?  I'd never make that claim.  She's alive, despite two suicidal episodes, so there's that.  We know more about what her emotional challenges are, so there's that.  We communicate better as a family, so there's that.[/quote]

I am really happy for you and you DD.  Glad that she is alive and improving. I have studied Psychology and I am sorry to say that I think it is a Pseudo Science.  I now think that good therapists are actually people with great patience and good understanding and listening skills, but that the majority are self inflated quacks. I am glad you found the person who was able to help.[/quote]

Where did you "study" psychology and why would you study it if you think it's pseudo science. You sound incredibly angry. I'd suggest therapy...but I guess that isn't going to happen.[/quote]

Here's some science to back up what she's saying ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/03/03/errors-riddled-2015-study-showing-replication-crisis-in-psychology-research-scientists-say/[/quote]

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