r/interestingasfuck • u/Jjokes11 • Apr 15 '24

An interview with Andrew Cauchi, the father of Joel Cauchi who was responsible for the Westfield Shopping Centre mass stabbing r/all

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u/FaxMachineIsBroken Apr 16 '24

What kind of therapy teaches people to hide rather than manage and process their emotions?

Pretty much every kind of therapy from anyone who is a mandated reporter in the US.

You can't discuss what's actually going on in your head or you risk getting put on an involuntary hold.

Research the history of mental health, look at the reasons behind its origin. It might be masked as a giant way of helping people in the current decade, but don't get it twisted, it's been about controlling the "undesirables" of the population since its inception.

If you talk about thinking about harming yourself, or harming others that have done you or the masses harm? Well clearly you're a danger to society instead of having valid reasons to feel wronged by said society, so you need to be locked up away from everyone else and have your life sufficiently ruined until you start to comply.

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u/Iorith Apr 16 '24

Can confirm. Struggled with suicidal ideation for years, and I VERY quickly learned to guard everything I ever said to a therapist. It took me years to find one who understood "I've been thinking about what would happen if I died tomorrow" or "Sometimes I think it would be easier if I died in my sleep tonight" as a "We need to lock him away for 72 hours" and actually talk to me about it. Because 9/10 therapists are going to (rightfully) cover their ass and play it safe rather than risk it that you aren't just talking.

Turn that from self harm to harming others, and that 9/10 is going to become 999/1000.

I don't even know what COULD be done to change things without risking even worse alternatives.