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How well does therapy work?
Printer-friendly versionmy parents want to send me to therapy because I cut and I have anorexia. I understand that you see a therapist. While I have never been to a therapist I have heard that it is some person who gets paid to sit there and listen and dosent really care about your problems. Is this true? how helpful has therapy been for you?
There are therapists who sit there and listen without caring but there are people in the profession who genuinely care for the well-being of their patients. Who view you as a person, as more than a mental illness or a series of complaints. It might take multiple tries to find that therapist but he or she is out there.
I had a therapist call me months after I quit therapy and moved out of the area asking for an update through e-mail. Nothing major, just checking in to see how I was doing.
I was in therapy but after moving haven't gone to find a new one. In therapy I generally sit on a couch or chair and talk. My favorite therapist, the most special of them, would take me out to her garden and we'd drink tea. We'd go on walks at a nature reserve near her office or even up and down the streets near her place, just talking.
My psychiatrist also sees me as a person. He asks about my website, asks questions that involve more than my behaviors or symptoms.
So I know as horrible as some therapists can be there are some therapists out there who can make a difference, who make you feel a little more human even when it feels like the world is falling apart.
I've found therapy helpful, overall. I've said it before, I may be psychologicaly unhealthy but I'm a lot more emotionally healthy than I was at fifteen when I first started this site. I'm much happier.
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