[QUOTE="blackacidevil96"]
[QUOTE="Radiatedrich91"]
Therapy does nothing unique that a person can't do on their own.
EDIT: Unless you're talking medication.
Radiatedrich91
therapy is more of the middle man between love, hate and regret. and you can only ever chose two. medications are a bit more finicky. some help. some make things worse. some put you places others wouldnt dare. and such is the beast of the human mind
No. Therapy is some dumb lady who just sits there and nods her head.
As I said before, there are some people who don't need therapists. Some could really benefit from them though. I had a friend go through therapy fighting tooth and nail. He was abused as a child, suffers from panic attacks and resorts to creating personas in order to feel comfortable in social situations with new people. He lied to the therapist and pretty much refused to believe he had a problem, even though for the past 14 months my friends and I have been working as hard as we can to keep him from drinking himself to death. He needs help to fix his problems, he cannot(from my standpoint, having known him almost all of my 24 years) manage to overcome it on his own, and it's been the primary factor that's been crippling his present and future life. He talks about his experiences in an offhand joking way to me occasionally, but always deflects whenever that topic is maintained for more than a minute or two, and he has (a few times) acknowledged he should tell the truth to the therapist work with them on the issue. Instead, he goes and seeks out self-destructive activities to hide away within. I don't know how to lead my friend though issues like that. None of my friends do. Unless something changes, my friend is going to find himself not living past 30, and if I can help him actually live, and have some happiness in this world, by overcoming the trauma that happened in his childhood, then it's worth it. If a therapist can help, and some are more capable than others, then it's worth pursuing. But my friend doesn't want help right now. So he won't pursue it. So therapists, right now, are of no use to him. But when he does want help, whatever therapist he does get isn't going to just sit and nod their head. The ones that do that are just waiting for the lying, prideful ones to pass their session and leave. They won't say no to money, and if someone doesn't want help, they're not going to push too hard.
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