On the one hand I don't want to make big claims about my capabilities. On the other hand I helped someone learn how to walk again through my bootleg therapy. So I don't fucking know.
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one of the 3 examples i'm talking about here is a video of richard schwartz doing IFS to a woman and resolving chronic back pain that she'd had ever since a car accident years prior or something like that. so i def believe things like this are possible
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the therapy example in particular - i've seen 3 different examples now of people who pioneered a therapy technique using that technique on other people live and they do something special that people who didn't pioneer the therapy don't do. sort of a kind of hypnotism
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i wish I could better explain and teach this level of capability, but the best I can do is transmit a low detail copy of my model. I can't even point to what my secret sauce is other than time and attention combine into something special.
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Like what the hell am I doing that I pull off this stuff when all I do is cry in my bed and apply what I learned, while someone could spend years with university and certifications and workshops then end up as a mediocre therapist.
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tbh i think good therapy is just actually really hard to teach and people mostly don't teach it successfully ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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2. what if therapists mostly suck at learning modalities of therapy
several people have told me that me doing my work on them has been better than any therapy they've had. i have no formal training or certification, i've just been dicking around. this is nuts
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reading textbooks and listening to lectures about psychological models or whatever is just not a substitute for actually trying to help yourself and other people with their actual problems
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