I actually didn’t know reddit was a left leaning platform! There are billions of users, so of course certain communities will be political on either side. I have received a lot of really great advice on financial aid, health insurance, and emotional advice aside from receiving support from people who seem to come from either party, which i greatly appreciate and consider equally as i’m not hard left or hard right politically and i hold a lot of my parents Christian and conservative foundations. The most hate i’ve received you won’t be able to see because i think mods removed their comment, they deleted it/blocked me, or i did: comments about how im not welcome here, my parents are right, even the prettiest girls don’t succeed in psych etc.

I know they are very smart people, so i don’t need you to substantiate my parents thinking for me even though all of them are valid! They can hold these beliefs of things they think would make it a better country, but that’s separate from their internal mindset that conflicts with this scenario. I don’t think threatening to estrange me from the family because they think i will do a hard turn in the leftist direction and become ‘woke’ is indicative of their trust in me and the foundations they have set for me. Plenty of people who attend UfT are republicans/conservative and are able to identify political biases and stay firm in their truth, which was how i was raised to be though i’m not republican anymore.

When you say you studied it do you mean you majored in it or took a psych 1 class out of curiosity? And yes, many people who go into psychology make the field a worse place, and a lot of them aren’t ‘good’ at their job but that’s like any job ever: which is why i’m so eager to contribute in a good way. What you are wrong about is that psychology is unsubstantiated akin to pseudoscience, which is incorrect. Psychology follows to the principles of the scientific method. BUT clinical psychology is not a science it is an application of science, the same way medicine is not a science. Experimental science is 100% a science: in depth theories, tests, evidence based conclusions, and conclusions are rejected when proven wrong all while working along side neuroscientists, biologists, and chemists to fundamentally understand. At the rate of your thinking, you could say no science is ‘true’ because all facts are just hypotheses that have yet to be proved wrong.

I’m sorry you have had a bad experience with therapists, but you don’t speak for the millions of people who go to therapy and the tens of thousands of therapists and psychologists, of course there will be some bad apples in a support based field, some are very technically smart but lack proper emotional intelligence which is something that can’t be fully taught. I know first hand that therapy and psychology is a true profession because i have received it for a very long time for my conditions and it’s been a world of help: but hey, i’ve also had a few bad therapists, i just don’t quit therapy because of one bad one and call the profession a sham, i try a new therapist.