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I've done this for sure, but I've also done the "go to therapy" thing and tbqh it has only very moderately helped, or not helped at all, with most issues I've sought help with. I feel a little like the "go to therapy" prescription is (while gender balanced!) not always so useful.
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(And like .. it was not just a bad therapist or something. I went to a _lot_ of different ones. It's just that not everything gets fixed that way. I guess I'm irritable about the cultural narrative we have that it does.)
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I've persisted with it a long time with many different ones and am now seeing results. One of the things that has helped (for me) is taking a collaborative approach with my psychologist, trying to be courageous and letting them know when things work or don't work.
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A lot of it is about getting better at coaching them to be better at helping me. Ultimately the goal is to rewire my brain so that I can function better going forward. Not sure if that perspective is helpful at all though - I'm sure you've tried lots of stuff yourself.
Personally I've found that what I want, they cannot provide; and what they can provide, I do not want. It is an exercise in visiting a car dealership when I am looking for shoes. This would be fine were it not the case that all shoe situations get the advice to go car shopping.
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Yeah, fair enough. Semi-related, but folks in the US tend to talk about 'therapists' and I find it hard to know what they really mean by that. Counselor? Life coach? Clinical psychologist? Psychiatrist? They all have different, but sometimes overlapping roles.
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