Does Therapy Work?
Plenty of people (mainly therapists) will tell you that talking out your problems has the benefit of making you feel better. You can find out who you are, realize you were abused and divorce your wife in therapy… but does it help? Does remembering a traumatic experience from your childhood, at the age of 43 really make you a better, more well adjusted person? Or are these kooks just taking your money and asking you, “how does that make you feel?”
Have you been in therapy? Has it helped? Is it bullshit?
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I have never had therapy, but what I do know for sure, is that talking with someone about issues helps to clear the mind and get us feeling better.
As a retired social worker I have seen people make positive changes in their life after being able to discuss openly about what is bothering them. the issue here may well be the defnintion of therapy, itself.
tbh I see it as a bunch of hocus-pocus. It feels like people have stopped trying to deal with their problems anymore. Now I'm not saying problems like clinical depression couldn't be real.
What I'm saying is we can't really tell if a person's depression is real or they're mimicking symptoms to gain sympathy or some other external stimulus. I mean, we were better as species, we managed to deal with whatever problems because of family, friends or finding ways of creating meaning of life. Since when we started needing clinical psychologists to cope with a celebrity's death? I mean get real.
I'm even ready to put on a tin foil hat and say at times these "issues" are being thrust upon by corporations. I'm really tired about seeing ""jokes"" too often about being depressed. I mean take a fucking pick. You can joke about anything but not joke about being depressed all the time. Either it's a serious issue or the unacknowledged consensus is that under all that garb it really isn't. I sometimes see it as a way to normalize illnesses to see the pharma sales go up so that some jackass can fly private.
Look up the story about Viagra. They accidentally invented Viagra, and to sell it, they literally came up with a disease and suddenly everyone "has it". I really don't know what to believe.
Partly I think we're in this state because of broken family structure. We need amalgamated families, and less reliance on things in general. I hate that we've come to this place.
My honest and non-professional opinion on the topic is that start dealing with the issues when they're small. You will succeed at some point. Assuming you're not a criminal, there's no problem that you can't deal with if you just have your family by your side. Treat your family better. Be a better person.
I have been in therapy and it helps, talking out your problem heals in a way that it relieves you and also enables the other personwho is the therapist to be able to help you out appropriately, however therapy does not work if one does not open up to share their presenting problems simply because the therapist will not be able to assess you effectively. Assessement is only effective if the client has given in the correct information to the therapist so that he can set goals hand in hand with the client to be able to handle that particular problem.
A therapist who is not skilled may also not be ble able to help a client heal through therapy.
Other wise therapy works really good especially counselling matters.
That's my view... Thanks for engaging us to be part of the discussion on therapy.
There's no hocus-pocus here. People struggle within their minds about all kinds of things. Getting those things out can be the healing process needed to get over the struggle. In a perfect world everyone is on top of everything and addresses issues when they are small as @pqbd said. But we live in the reality that stuff gets tucked away because of fear, embarrassment or any host of reasons. Therapists can be extremely important for those of us that don't nip an issue in the bud early.
Talking your problem out is good, but you need to know who to tel so your problems do not become a public matter to be devoured by the wolfs. I have not been in therapy, but from people that I know that have been. I heard it is good and works. However human beings differs, what works for Mr X may not work for Mr Y
True... A therapist has to be confidential enough with their clients problems,this helps a client to build trust in his or her therapist.
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