Firstly I have used this company and had somewhat of a basic experience nothing extraordinary good or bad but these ads are insane
So to start off with I totally agree that therapy can be very helpful but the way this company seems to go about it, seems unethical and a very dogmatic approach towards therapy like it wants to make you feel guilty for not being in therapy all the time ..the way it sells therapy is how grifters sell you their weight loss tips and tricks. It's like making you feel guilty for eating every bite of sugar or every sip of coke
To begin with these ads are relentless. I'm getting multiple ads daily in fact every ad I get on YouTube is a better help ad now and the ads are quite lengthy as well and go on about traumatic situations like breakups or getting IBS and so on
For example the one ad is a woman telling you about how she got better after a breakup only because of therapy as if there is no other way to manage a breakup without joining therapy and the other ad a guy talks about how he developed symptoms of IBS due to stress and anxiety and so on ..
It kind of feels like they want to scare you about getting IBS or any other dramatic illness if you don't immediately sign up for therapy it seems like everything and anything happening with you can only be fixed with therapy .. It's almost like wanting to make you feel guilty for not being in therapy all the time
like they want to trigger you to feel that if you are not in therapy all the time then something is deeply wrong with you or can go wrong with you and the only way to make it right is by signing up with them..
No other online therapy brand seems to be pushing it as hard as these people are I feel very icky and disgusted by this company now
The reason I feel this is relevant here is because most of our anxiety and stress problems are due to capitalism and this company wants to bank on that by charging you $65 a week to sit and rant to a person halfway around the world on a zoom call and somehow that's supposed to fix everything when you can't afford rent and groceries.. this shows the insidious nature of capitalism creating problems and then setting you solutions