Anyone have experience with therapy?

[Azami]

So I’m currently in a point of my life where I’m not too sure what I want to do with my life. I’m also currently facing situation that I have no idea how to solve so I made an appointment with a therapist and I am hoping that help? Anyone ever did therapy and if it helped them for the better? I know it’s not supposed to “fix” things straight off the bat but all I know is that I want to be in a better state than I was before.

[De Hollandse Ezel]

yes and I hate it.

to my opinion
therapy is to the psyche what prostitution is to our sexuality.. BAD
something that is ment to create a close bond between two people married for life.. sold by the hour as a superfusicial thing..

to my opinion.. Psychologic Knowledge can be very helpfull as assistance to help people.
But ONLY if a person already has the love and personal desire to help another person.
This dedication can never be sold.... it is there or is not.
Psychological Knowledge can at best be tought TO those people helping the patient by a councelor..

I am quite closed in whats in my heart even to my closest friends and family.. preserving much good and trauma.. for when I find the one to share my life with..
never would I share that willingly with the likes of those who see that as a mere job by the hour.

likewise while I have had psychology as part of my education (pastoral counceling was a chunk of it) I was quite uneasy in doing any of actual counceling and have never wanted to use it in a professional setting.. only using it for those who happen to be in my life anyway.

I think buying a bunch of psychology books (not self help.. actual psychology books) are a much better investment than "a therapist"

and if you have loved ones around you that are willing to read them too.. and BE that listening ear for you without charing 100 an hour and having only 1 hour a week for you.. by all means let them read those books too.,

[Vince ✟]

I like how De Ezel put it. I agree with a lot of that having gone through enough of the cognitive behavioral therapy to know it wasn't something I needed to go through any longer.


Personally for me I tried a LOT of things. A LOT of substances. Some pharmacist prescribed, some given by "medicine men", and some drugs too. Most of my time and experience with these methods only left me attempting to fill a hole in my life I didn't understand why I had, and how to fix. I feel like we all have this in our lives somehow and we turn to so many things to fill that void. A therapist was ok for that, but truly it was my paying for a friendly ear, that was actually not a friend.

A healthy, daily, on-call relationship with God is what has helped me more than anything to get past a lot of my problems. Prayer. Just speaking the name and asking to show me. Asking Him to give me the understanding to see what He wants from me. He fills the void in my life, with joy, purpose, a future, and life, real life.

Jesus is my therapist. My church family is there for me as well, but they're only human, can only love me so much, and truly care only so much. When I'm in need I pray. There hasn't been a time yet where I felt like God was unfaithful in His promises. I'll stop with that. Mainly because I know it largely falls on ears that hear and eyes that see, yet where no faith can be found.

[Chenzo]

I've been in therapy for a while now, and it's been incredibly helpful. It gave me a safe space to discuss my thoughts and feelings and helped me better understand myself. It's great that you're taking this step because having someone to guide you through tricky situations can make a big difference.
Therapy isn't a quick fix, but it can help you gain new perspectives and tools to tackle life's challenges. Over time, I felt more grounded and more transparent about my goals and what I want in life. It's about progress, not perfection, and even small steps forward are worth celebrating.
I also explored systemic constellatio [systembrett.shop] therapy, which helped me see the bigger picture in relationships and life patterns. It's worth checking out if you're interested in different approaches, and there are some high-quality sets made of wood that are used in systemic counseling, coaching, pedagogy, and therapy.

[Azami]

Chenzo の投稿を引用：

I've been in therapy for a while now, and it's been incredibly helpful. It gave me a safe space to discuss my thoughts and feelings and helped me better understand myself. It's great that you're taking this step because having someone to guide you through tricky situations can make a big difference.
Therapy isn't a quick fix, but it can help you gain new perspectives and tools to tackle life's challenges. Over time, I felt more grounded and more transparent about my goals and what I want in life. It's about progress, not perfection, and even small steps forward are worth celebrating.
I also explored systemic constellatio [systembrett.shop] therapy, which helped me see the bigger picture in relationships and life patterns. It's worth checking out if you're interested in different approaches, and there are some high-quality sets made of wood that are used in systemic counseling, coaching, pedagogy, and therapy.

Good for you man :). I haven't been in therapy in a while due to some certain financial circumstances and was thinking about going back. Also never heard of that. Will take a look into it.

[abcd]

yeah, it was helpful to have someone who was willing and able to talk me through intellectual barriers to desiring life. for example, when I brought up that life is a downwards spiral every force in existence seeks to accelerate, and which the good aspects of life are definitively losing to in human society, most people don't want to hear it. they don't want to think about that. it started to feel like the only reason people lived their lives was because they were brainwashed, or didn't understand how life worked, or wanted to live in a kind of delusion by choice.

for one thing, those are all normal needs and normal responses. just because someone is choosing to live a delusion doesn't mean they're insane; many scientists and inventors and visionaries like galileo had to face such barriers, believing deluded things which aren't necessarily true like heliocentrism, and found similar ways of coping. many more live perfectly normal lives, utterly believing that things are getting better when they aren't. and their belief in such a thing allows them to take actions which fight the downwards tide, when others were normally paralyzed. many of my neighbors who I'd trusted then come to believe were crazy were this sort of person. many people who do good things need to at least temporarily make-believe that postive progress is possible or even plausible, rather than a futile effort, in order to achieve real actual tangible immediate and long-lasting benefits for many, many people.

there were other issues like allowing my autism and desire not to interfere with others to create circumstances where they believed I was acting narcisstically, when infact I didn't perceive that there was a social gap where they could infer such and did not take the steps to clarify my motivations. and that if I tried to maintain contentment in not addressing these feelings, or not trying to recognize such situations when they happened, then I really would be doing something selfish. even if, again, i'm fighting the tide just believing it's possible for me to understand peoples social perceptions in this way.

it was also nice to hear someone who i'd talked all of this through with, among other points, explain to me that I lived on the fringe of what society experienced. a 6 year old who knew all of this and decided that, rationally, they should kill themselves, is not a common occurrence. let alone one who can argue and defend all of these points, and had personally seen an influential technology they'd developed only two years prior grow out of control and be used to permanently harm almost every aspect society. all I did was compute minimum space, because I was trying to tesselate turtles and achieve maximum turtle per area, and now people can compute minimum profit and living spaces and maximize society for short-term gains at the expense of long-term sustainability. I wouldn't have done things like take control of the global market and try to force them to consider long-term viability without the turtles and minimum space. nor without my therapist, telling me it was possible to fix mistakes. even mistakes that are permanent and irreversible.

that was a long time ago though, and I was lucky to have such a therapist.

[JD]

I have 14 years of therapy experience and medication experience. Medications never worked for me, so I gave up on them about 5 years ago. Therapy works if you go every week and invest in your mental health. Also, you need to find a therapist that is on your side. If your mental health gets worse while seeing a therapist, feel free to find another one.

[DoomsDay]

find some good lawyer, win some case, find faith in system and culture, and you will be walking on the bright side of the street,feeling pretty like a really spoiled brat.