do y'all actually know people who've been in therapy for like 5+ years and it doesn't seem to be helping them very much? i keep hearing about these people but i don't actually know any. what kind of therapy do they do?
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that was me. I did psychodynamic and client-centered therapy as well as general “interdisciplinary” “counseling” before quitting in 2019. considering going back this spring, maybe to a couples/relationship person.
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never did CBT bc (asshole alert) it just seemed so dumb. was curious about DBT but it always seemed to involve group therapy with some wildly unstable/unconscientious people.
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i have slightly more respect for CBT now than i used to but i don't think it makes sense as a place to start for most people. psychodynamic therapy seems plausibly good from wiki; what was it like (like what did you do in sessions) / how helpful did you find it?
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that was actually the least helpful for me. I was young and very prideful and didn’t really have a sense of how “normal” healthy functioning involved a good amount of contextual socioemotional learning, so I was trying to skip straight to solving philosophy and ruling the world
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meanwhile my poor relatively-inexperienced, very warm but to-me-insufficiently-ambitious therapist tried to get me to care about trauma and disagreeableness and generally alarming things I said about Other People
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good intro to contemporary psychodynamic/psychoanalytic therapy that debunks a lot of the straw men portrayals of it - by jonathanshedler.com/PDFs/Shedler%2
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