What Various Types of Mental Health Therapy Are Available?

Question by Spec Tac: What various types of mental health therapy are available?
I’ve heard several terms; therapist, psychiatrist, psycho-therapist, etc. Sounds like there are a lot of options out there. Can anyone break down the various types of treatment for me?

Best answer:

Answer by Anonymous123
A therapist/psychotherapist (PhD degree) is what one would refer to as the “talk therapy” type person. They sit down with you in a 1-on-1 session and you discuss any issues you might be having and they essentially coach you or provide the correct treatment or assistance in accordance with your current situation/mental illness.

A psychiatrist is a person who has a Medical Degree (MD) and therefore, can prescribe medications. They usually dispense psychiatric medications to patients with mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, and more.

Answer by Stephen H
The systems don’t have a concept of “mental health”, so mainstream is all negative focused and negative biased with a made up concept decided committee and wide open to interpretation and covered with multiple double-binds like “fixed delusional belief” and “lack of insight” and “lack of decision making capacity” that can lead to an utter and complete loss of reality amongst the decision makers involved with statements and even very clear medical evidence being contradicted and “lack of insight” etc. being claimed and assigned to a target to justify forcing harmful drugs to attempt to address a growing made up negative biased concept. i.e. it’s the most negative and divisive and destructive influence in society.

So people should be very careful who they get involved with. And key things to look for are strong indications of personal experience of having applied things for themselves, so they are on the same side of the fence, open-mindedness and willingness and intention to be self-reflective and learn something from the experience themselves, a non-judgemental and non-critical approach without any force or pressure applied. And it’s positive intention that lies at the heart of these kinds of things, so no double-binds to switch “yes” and “no” and “good” and “bad” around are needed. And the focus is on experience being valid and positive metamorphosis or transition, and words like “transpersonal” or “spiritual” or “psycho-spiritual” are indicative of the possibility of that kind of lifting, empowering connecting and integrative approach and a desire to free people and let go rather than enmeshing and forcing co-dependencies and negative relationships and destructive behaviours, as compensatory mechanisms for decision makers and “therapists” who feel disconnected and separate and just forcingly leak out their problems on others. And even priests, clergy, imans etc. are far more likely to be able to offer something useful than some of the mainstream services and some independent spiritual practitioners, but transpersonal psychology theoretically at least has the more positive and open minded approaches involved (even moreso than some religious officials) so I expect that to be a big growth area and it’ll be interesting to see if that proves effective over time and isn’t dominated by fashionable and ineffective theories and concepts.

But the list of titles is so long. But more holistic, open-minded and shareable and full positive quality of life focus, rather than anyone-sidedness or limited or negative bias which constitute a disservice rather than a service and tend to be extremely competitive and more oriented to eliminating anything better by force.

And psychiatry in it’s present form (other than with a few exceptional psychiatrists) utterly and completely lost the plot but yet highly influential and messing up the whole of the mainstream arena without even getting round to the obvious of must rely on made up concepts of a “mental health” one that they could potentially find occasionally and braintrain themselves in instead and drop the double-bind cult-like switching and harmful drugs if it existed.

But I’ve had harmful drug “treatment” myself when from my point of view I didn’t need any treatment at all, and mostly I get people away from the services and “treatment” altogether because in practice they do much better without the UK mental health services involved at all and recover from any issues if they have any aside from the services insistence. Noone with a degree of health could be considered healthy by the mainstream psychiatrists (most of them in agreement with each other) because anything they don’t understand or get completely wrong, i.e. including anything better (which is not hard to do) is just reacted to with “lack of insight” etc. to switch it around and force harmful drugs to try to force people below the same superficial and negative threshold level and make them continue with harmful drugs.

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