On average, you'd find the therapy you've tried to be mostly ____
- Helpful29%
- Neutral26.2%
- Harmful5.4%
- Haven't tried therapy39.4%
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therapy makes you dependent on therapy
learn cognitive behavioral therapy and you can fix your own problems
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1 Really depends on the therapist and the circumstances. There's a lot of parents who are effectively using therapy as a weapon and often the therapists are complicit. There's a weird conflict of interest there. Most therapists are not qualified in my experience, but some are
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First therapist was harmful, second was neutral (but I stayed there a long time anyway because I didn't know better), third/current has been helpful
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My therapist's office was right next to a great burrito place so I might be overrating the positivity
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I had a kind a mixture of Gestalt Therapy and CBT. For me it was life changing. The therapy was explicitly NOT focused on why I was depressed, but rather how to change my negative thought patterns. My therapist would say "don't ask why, ask how".
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