we're talking about EV, not about results, surprising you got to this conclusion as a poker player

I guess though you could make the argument that people who are already extremely happy and suffering free might not need it, doesn't appear to be ur case

not to pile on but that's some genuine cherry picking as the rest of the page says the exact opposite

question: If someone has literally $0 to their name, is therapy so +ev that this person should steal money to pay for it?

question: When Bezos talks to his therapist, does he learn about how he can make an impact on the world as a whole or simply how to selfishly continue increasing his share of finite resources?

question: If someone with trust issues interacts with a therapist for a few years and this therapist rapes them, should they immediately seek out a new therapist?

Alright I did my due diligence to try and help the guy, just in for the ride now

it might be +EV in some cases to steal the money to pay for a therapy I would assume

as for bezos I'm guessing he's not trying to figure out how to make more money when talking with a therapist

yes

90% of the time he asks for help, advice and starts challenges to get out of his below terrible busto life

then he runs good for a few days and acts like dan bilzerian

then goes back into mop mode

gotta appreciate how textbook he is, its fun.

Literally Ive never asked for help or advice on 2+2 lmfao

90% of 0 is....................

yeah I would say that's a good idea

were you raped by your therapist?

Depends on how good of a therapist they are

I just find it an extreme waste of time and money to pay someone to tell you to do more things that are good for you and less things that are bad for you.

There are also books and the internet to help with anything one may need.

Paying for a therapist is like definitely in the 20'ish+ things that would improve my life

1.) Money
2.) A pet
3.) Better health
4.) Massages
5.) Eating better food
etc etc........
maybe 20.) Pay for a therapist even tho I dont really need one lulz


In other news I did get my 1st massage in 2 years today. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck it was nice. 90 minutes for $25.

Up $4,000 so far this month with $4500 in bonuses left.

Increasing my budget by 50% and will work towards a biiiiiit of balance bc more money allows this.



... The Beast Is Coming ...

Would you like me to write up some fan fiction?

your post deeply implied that you attempted therapy in the past and that's what happened, otherwise i don't understand why you'd use the threat of your therapist raping you as a reason not to get one - don't really think that's a big thing that happens often but could be mistaken

I genuinely dont understand the logic. A question cannot be asked without assuming that the question has some existential subconscious connection with my personal life?

I never said its a reason not to get one.

Its called a hypothetical.

Its funny you did not assume I robbed a bank to pay for therapy or that I role play in my mind that I am Jeff Bezos.

look man, i'm genuinely not trying to troll you - i do poke fun at times but that's nothing personal just my personality as i'm always joking around with people

i'm genuinely rooting for you to find happiness but it seems like you are at times your own obstacle to those ends where you don't look at things objectively

you have an entire thread of people advocating you look into therapy - this is not a normal occurrence here, if one or two people say it then sure go ahead and ignore but when most of the discussion in the thread is people advocating therapy then perhaps you should dive deeper into maybe all these random strangers all agree on this for a reason and are able to more objectively see things than i can

it's like that saying that if you meet a jerk at the grocery store parking lot then you met a jerk, but if you also meet a jerk inside the grocery store and then at the office and later at the restaurant during lunch break then you're not meeting a bunch of jerks - it's you who is the jerk but your perspective so far off that you fail to see yourself as the villian so instead of realizing that you are the difficult one to deal with who brings arguments and drama wherever they go, you instead lay blame on everyone else

i'm not labeling you a jerk, just pointing out that few people are able to objectively view themselves and thus when they find themselves in a bad or unhappy situation where they played a large role they fail to realize this and blame it all on outside forces so the cycle just repeats endlessly and they aren't going to find happiness or get into a better situation in life until they acknowledge the role they play in their own lives - which nobody in the world is doing optimally




but more to the point, it's just really weird that your response to why you shouldn't get therapy is "what if he rapes me"

it's disingenuous, not a real thing that is an actual danger of happening, nor would you robbing a bank be a normal outcome for therapy and it prevents real thought on the matter

i know you didn't rob a bank, but i do know you suffer and clearly had a rough go early in life that still lingers with you (i recall those poems you wrote quite vividly), so i genuinely wouldn't be surprised if a lot of that was that you were indeed sexually assaulted when you were younger by someone in a position of authority over you such as an adult family member or social worker or state appointed therapist etc etc - i genuinely couldn't rule out that indeed happened and it was so out of left field that i thought it may have actually occurred in the past - which would obviously explain why you're so adamant about seeking therapy

it's also not nearly as expensive as you're making it out to be, you're not going to be seeing a manhattan therapist, you'd be doing stuff locally or online for a fraction of the cost, in fact, if you googled "free therapy options" you'd find a number of organizations provide free counseling exactly because they don't want people deciding whether or not to seek therapy to be a financial decision - there are dozens of places that offer it for free and many more that provide it at nominal costs

to say you could be raped or would need to rob a bank is not being honest with yourself - for whatever reason you have, you choose not to go that route - just own up and acknowledge that - it won't be as helpful as going to therapy yourself - but it'll still be a positive step in the right direction to attempt figuring out the root cause of why you are choosing that path instead of pretending you'd be in physical danger nor could never afford it which are totally false (but my guess is you already know that, just a matter of asking yourself why you'd rather pretend that to be the case instead of looking at genuine reasons)

I genuinely dont think your native language is English lol

I just cant

How on gods green earth you thought I was asking this lmfao

again more deflection



let's poll the thread

so guys, what is your understanding of this post above?

Bro Im offended. You clearly have not read all my posts. I thought you were a true follower. I already mentioned this happened.

My babysitter threatened me and my brother to lock us in our rooms with the lights out when we were 6 and 8 years old if we did not perform sexual acts with him and between my brother and I. He told us to do things to eachother and we did it. When I was 6 years old I gave head to an 18 year old and gave head to my 8 year old brother too. There was no penetration though.

Tbh its not very traumatizing for me personally. There are different degrees of molestation. Touching a childs genitalia is obviously different than anally penetrating them. Some may call what happened to me rape. Maybe it is.

Some societies mutiliate a childs genitalia (circumcision) - some jewish sects suck the blood off the bloody baby penis after they mutilate it - so some things that may be deemed sexually deviant or traumatizing are only so because of societal norms.

It was a lot worse when my father embarrassed me in front of my entire school by cursing at me at the top of his lungs after a school concert. There are like a couple dozen things more traumatizing imo than the molestation.

By the way Ive been through hundreds of hours of therapy in my life.

The question about therapist raping had more to do with my belief that a human has strong natural mechanisms to heal and recover.

I find it a bit psychopathic that you all answered IMMEDIATELY seek out a new therapist

If the person has trust issues and was raped by the person they confided their deepest secrets to, let that person ****ing take a breather. Holy ****.

lmfao it was LITERALLY a hypothetical.

No no no no you got me. Im secretly afraid of therapy even tho Ive had hundreds of hours of it bc Ive been raped by my therapists. Not because I genuinely think its kind of pointless for me.

says something more to do with you imo

as I said you didnt assume I robbed a bank or have a split personality disorder in which I fantasize about being Jeff Bezos.

btw keyword was immediately

unless you think I was raped by a therapist within the past year or so

This is just -ev for me now - ****ing terrible for me to type

I also think therapy is also overused for weak minded pussies that want to feel more elite bc they have money to spend on fluff.

It is obviously insanely valuable for victims of trauma but some people just need to grow tf up

look man, i'm not trying to pick a fight with you, if others want to respond to post #142 and give input on how everyone else interpreted that then let them



but as a thought exercise, would you disagree that you have an extremely particular viewpoint/interpretation of things compared to the general public - do you not think you do things in a particularly unique way as a result - everything from social life to dating to where you live and how you earn a living etc etc?


and i'm genuinely sorry for those things you went through in the past, that sounds terrible, i can't possibly imagine going through something like that

what i mean to say is, why don't you just simply say "i've had hundreds of hours of therapy already, i didn't find it helpful" instead of talking about bank robbing and rape - if you do that then people will say "ok then i get it you've tried it and didn't like it" and then everyone moves on and we chase the poker dream again

glgl

If you are not trolling with those questions and present them as serious arguments it is a bit concerning .

Like rhetorical questions often try point out something obvious but if answering your questions I think we are getting obvious answers but unsure if they are the answers you await to be getting .

So the big question is trolling or not?

Lets try anyways :

Why the hell would Bezos seek therapy for anything else but working on his personal issues?

Having no money means having no honey , no therapy , no nothing

Third question is bizarre , pointless to jump into it

to be fair OP it feels like we’re walking on eggs when talking to you, you are insanely quick to get offended and I don’t blame you given the plethora of childhood traumas you appear to have but it feels like it’d be beneficial to you to stop downplaying those and address them so that you may learn to feel safe and secure when facing any sort of criticism really

probably quite a lengthy process but one step at a time, just like poker

tbf this thread isnt about receiving criticism or guidance or help or feedback or advice

If I wanted it I would ask for it.

It is a journal that I update to show progress and have light care free banter.

The amount of assumptions, judgement, ridicule etc about my life has been legendary. But most of those guys have been blocked. I think its over 30 now on my list.

Pretty sure Ive never trolled ejames. There is a reason for that.