To those who have done and are currently in therapy, how has it helped you and what did you gain from it? I have my first therapy session this Wednesday, and I’m feeling a different range of emotions at the moment.
What did you gain from therapy?
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To those who have done and are currently in therapy, how has it helped you and what down the truly gain from it? I’ve my first therapy session this Wednesday, and I’m feeling a different range of emotions at the moment.
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Helped me realize I have issues with impulse control and what to do with that
First session will be very soft, after all this person is meeting you for the first time.
Usually this will be where the therapist will get to know you, what do you do in your day to day, and ask about you.
Personally mine gives me homework so I can work on what’s bothering me and this has been helping a lot.
I’ve had a lot of different kinds of therapy. Learned how the brain works, learned psychiatric theories, unpacked my past traumas and recurring fantasies, and learned somatic strategies for disrupting panic attacks and grief.
That’s all well and good and having awareness and certain mental tools helps in ways … I think the biggest benefit of continued therapy though is basically having someone to bear witness and be a sounding board to your issues. It can be important to feel seen. -But it can be tricky to find a good fit and can get expensive since there’s really not an end to it.
Not much positive.
One bad therapist can do bad things to you, a series of them is catastrophically bad. You couldn’t get me to go back with a court order and a gun to my head.
It helped me recognize patterns in my life that I never noticed, then we discovered the root cause of them. It helped me understand “me” and it helped turn my life around – broke habits that were self destructive and then later to accept/forgive myself
Congrats on taking this step. Go in with an open mind and understand it’s a process
talk therapy, like counseling – absolutely nothing
did it for 6 months to address some medical anxiety. made things significantly worse. they kept wanting to talk about childhood trauma, so I indulged. it sucked and nothing got resolved. I kept asking what the “plan” was and they couldn’t give me an answer. I asked for some kind of concrete map to outcomes and they said “it’s not that simple.” so I just went and let them dig through my entrails for six months until I’d had enough. therapy – talk therapy in particular – doesn’t work if you have tangible goals. tried CBT and directed hypnotherapy later on and had much better results, but nothing spectacular.
also, make sure you don’t get a therapist who quietly hates men. you’ll notice right away
It changed a lot of my behaviors. I was plagued with alcoholism and substance abuse disorder. I learned coping skills like how to handle stress with mindfulness. It got me to open up and be more honest with those bad habits and approach them with kindness and understanding rather than ignore it and feel shame. I cried so hard in my first session because I was a mess.
I think your sessions won’t be as dramatic as mine. My best bro recently started going and he’s been doing way better than before.
Honestly I just recommend finding a church. It’s cheaper, more social, and about as scientific.