Sorry for the very late reply to an ancient thread. Just want to point out one small thing that is not helping your case:
Many self-help interventions are incentivized against actually fixing people’s problems (e.g. therapists stop getting paid if they permanently fix your problems).
This is a typical pseudoscience/​fake medicine line. The doctors and pharma companies want you to be sick! That’s their business model!
Doesn’t add up.
[Edited on Nov. 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM to add: think about the incentives of the researchers who came up with cognitive behavioural therapy or who tested its efficacy. Think about the incentives of the clinical psychology professors or other instructors who teach therapists how to apply techniques like CBT. What are they incentivized to do? Are they incentivized, in any plausible way, to develop of teach techniques that don’t work? Skeptical, iconoclastic, anti-establishment hunches like these about science or medicine typically start to look implausible very quickly when you start to look at them more closely.]
Sorry for the very late reply to an ancient thread. Just want to point out one small thing that is not helping your case:
This is a typical pseudoscience/​fake medicine line. The doctors and pharma companies want you to be sick! That’s their business model!
Doesn’t add up.
[Edited on Nov. 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM to add: think about the incentives of the researchers who came up with cognitive behavioural therapy or who tested its efficacy. Think about the incentives of the clinical psychology professors or other instructors who teach therapists how to apply techniques like CBT. What are they incentivized to do? Are they incentivized, in any plausible way, to develop of teach techniques that don’t work? Skeptical, iconoclastic, anti-establishment hunches like these about science or medicine typically start to look implausible very quickly when you start to look at them more closely.]