Neurodivergent on Sidechat | PSA: therapy doesn't work for everyone. people should still try it, but treatment-resistant depression/mental illness is characterized by the symptoms resisting treatment. therapy is a treatment.

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Neurodivergent 3w

PSA: therapy doesn't work for everyone. people should still try it, but treatment-resistant depression/mental illness is characterized by the symptoms resisting treatment. therapy is a treatment.

Anonymous 3w

Real. Therapy can be super helpful for many people and there are many different kinds to try! AND sometimes it just doesn’t work. I have treatment-resistant ocd and people keep telling me to do exposure therapy. I’ve tried that. I’ve tried that multiple times, including in an ocd-specific institution for 6 hours a day every day for months. Sometimes a treatment just doesn’t work and it doesn’t mean you didn’t try

Anonymous 3w

I’ve genuinely never heard of this before, can I ask how the mental illness is resistant towards treatment? Like does it make you just self-sabotage after therapy sessions or does your mind just feel a need to harvest on the mental illness so it refuses therapy? Or is it something else?

Anonymous 3w

Are you the person from this morning who was whining about how you can’t excuse your actions based on your disability?

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Anonymous

#1 3w

huh

Anonymous

#1 3w

me when I’m trying to argue for no reason with strangers online

Anonymous

OP 3w

There was someone this morning talking about it and tried to come back with “but sometimes therapy doesn’t work so then you can be a bitch to anyone”

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Anonymous

#1 3w

Not sound logic. They need help

Anonymous

#3 3w

The actual answer is that we aren’t really sure. There’s so much we don’t know about mental health and the human brain in general. When the most typical treatments (usually >2 meds and most common therapy) don’t work, you get classified as having a treatment-resistant form. This classification allows you to try less standard treatments and treatments with more risks. For OCD, that’s usually ketamine and TMS. For depression, it’s both of these and ECT. And these sometimes don’t help, either.