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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fwiw, my thread of personal recommendations for therapy modalities, all of which i suspect are much better than what most people in therapy are doing (but i would like to check that assumption!)
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thread of therapy and therapy-like thingies that have helped me or people i know:
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damn some of y'all got some rough stories :(
maybe it's less about modalities and more about the therapist. some relevant thoughts from
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So many oofs reading these replies :(
This is why #8 is on my list; because "just listen to you talk about your week and provide some emotional support/reflective listening" can feel nice, but it's often not enough, and rarely worth the price.
daystareld.com/the-bad-therap
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mmm
i did 4 years (and then another 4 intermittently) of psychoanalysis with no homework or anything
overall it was a net good for me
but i see the downsides of it in retrospect
we also never set an end date
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granted, i would have resisted both, at least initially, so 🤷♀️
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i've recently started doing something therapy-like but not therapy
i don't want to talk about it just yet but i will say it's quite lifechanging and it is more action-oriented
already after a few sessions i've made some incredible progress with a few things
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