In addition to what others have said, there’s a lot of potentially useful fail-data at Troper Tales: There Are No Therapists, one of the more grim pages on TV Tropes. (Note: due to the lack of links, this page doesn’t share the usual TV Tropes time-sink warning.)
I don’t know that it was especially unhelpful for me compared to other people, if that’s what you mean, but I suspect so, since so many people bother with it..
If you mean how was it especially unhelpful for me compared with other interventions? Well, I dunno, it just didn’t seem to help much. It made me feel better about as often as it made me feel worse. It wasn’t a source of great insights since I could usually predict what my therapist would say in response to any given thing, and I’m very introspective in any case. And I’ve never noticed that it seemed to improve my capacity to get shit done.
I’m more interested in how you think therapy is usually helpful, or how you have actually found it to be helpful. (And if you live in my area, the name of your shrink.)
I went into therapy as a treatment modality for depression, in which capacity I hoped it would help me get less depressed. If it worked for that at all, I couldn’t tell. I was also hoping it would help improve my emotional resilience and capacity to get stuff done, or at least teach me things I didn’t know before. All I can say about that is that all the stuff on my list worked a lot better.
At this point I’m just kind of confused about what your questions are getting at. I’m not offended or anything. This just isn’t the kind of feedback I was expecting to “Therapy didn’t work for me, but I’d love to hear about how it worked for you, if you can be really specific.”
I want to be more resilient in the face of failure and of people being mean to me. And my episodes of major depression have usually been precipitated by environmental factors, but I suspect based on their repeated ocurrence and my family history that I do have a biological predisposition for depression. I am currently feeling fine, but I consider it quite probable that if I were subjected to a significant environmental challenge, I would have to seek treatment again.
So when you were in therapy, you tended to talk a lot about your problems and how you conceptualized them, and the therapist would point out more dots to connect? Or just ask useful questions that helped you notice more dots? Or how did you find the extra dots?
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In addition to what others have said, there’s a lot of potentially useful fail-data at Troper Tales: There Are No Therapists, one of the more grim pages on TV Tropes. (Note: due to the lack of links, this page doesn’t share the usual TV Tropes time-sink warning.)
I don’t know that it was especially unhelpful for me compared to other people, if that’s what you mean, but I suspect so, since so many people bother with it..
If you mean how was it especially unhelpful for me compared with other interventions? Well, I dunno, it just didn’t seem to help much. It made me feel better about as often as it made me feel worse. It wasn’t a source of great insights since I could usually predict what my therapist would say in response to any given thing, and I’m very introspective in any case. And I’ve never noticed that it seemed to improve my capacity to get shit done.
I’m more interested in how you think therapy is usually helpful, or how you have actually found it to be helpful. (And if you live in my area, the name of your shrink.)
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I went into therapy as a treatment modality for depression, in which capacity I hoped it would help me get less depressed. If it worked for that at all, I couldn’t tell. I was also hoping it would help improve my emotional resilience and capacity to get stuff done, or at least teach me things I didn’t know before. All I can say about that is that all the stuff on my list worked a lot better.
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At this point I’m just kind of confused about what your questions are getting at. I’m not offended or anything. This just isn’t the kind of feedback I was expecting to “Therapy didn’t work for me, but I’d love to hear about how it worked for you, if you can be really specific.”
I want to be more resilient in the face of failure and of people being mean to me. And my episodes of major depression have usually been precipitated by environmental factors, but I suspect based on their repeated ocurrence and my family history that I do have a biological predisposition for depression. I am currently feeling fine, but I consider it quite probable that if I were subjected to a significant environmental challenge, I would have to seek treatment again.
So when you were in therapy, you tended to talk a lot about your problems and how you conceptualized them, and the therapist would point out more dots to connect? Or just ask useful questions that helped you notice more dots? Or how did you find the extra dots?
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