An EXCELLENT cultural sign?

I saw a TV ad this morning which included a graphic of a leaf (I think) and an advice: "Find your trash in therapy," which after a second or two changed to, "Find your self in therapy." I didn't see who paid for the ad. There was no other CTA (marketing lingo for call to action), and nothing specific for anybody seeing the ad to do. So the only likely effect intended by those who created the ad and bought the media, was momentary wondering about what trash and what self.

Maybe this is a harbinger of changing social attitudes in mental health. If so, it makes me very optimistic. I would really love to find out who the people are who created the ad, and what they think the value of running it on TV might be!

My wife and I have a very good friend who is a Ph.D. psychologist and full-time practicing professional therapist. Diane insists that she does not share my "extreme" views on psychiatric drugs, because many of her patients appear to need them. However she agrees with me that mental, emotional, and behavioral problems are not, or at least not strictly, medical issues. She also shares my near horror about the prospect that psychedelics will become a replacement for antidepressants in psychiatry.

Speculating about this "Find your trash" ad, my wife (who is actually a renowned, top expert in marketing) suggested that the intent might be to tell people needing help, "Look for a Diane, don't go a psychiatrist who will just prescribe drugs."

Although I do not believe there is significant value in the supposed "science" of psychology for any purpose other than selling things to reactive people, I certainly trust Dianes to cause less harm than Syed Hussain, Daniel Cuneo, Corcoran, Malis-with-malice, and the other plantation overseers who perpetrate the crime of psychiatric slavery against humanity.

There is much argument and frequently vicious allegation on my X (Twitter) feed, back and forth between British mental health professionals loyal to either orthodox psychiatry on one side or psychological models of "treatment" on the other. I always like it when the psychologists seem to be winning the argument. But that's not because I think they're substantially right about anything other than the fact that psychiatry is fundamentally harmful, and I'm sorry to notice that they are rarely willing to even state that view plainly.

I believe that psychiatry has finally failed as a supposed medical specialty. There were various times in the past two centuries when that could have been, and was, said. But right now, unlike e.g., in the 1960's, Western culture is generally cynical about medicine and science itself. This cynical moment will be a brief opening, because science is mostly on the side of truth and medicine is mostly helpful.

But maybe it's a chance to strike to an effective blow toward abolishing psychiatric slavery, coercion and fraud. Maybe the ad I saw this morning is a good sign!

Maybe people will think about what trash, and what self.

Therapy, not violence.