It’s the days you rawdog life and go home without music. Thems the days.
Go to therapy y’all. Even if you had a perfect upbringing and zero trauma or adversity, you can still unlock more of your own potential and understand yourself better. Even an imperfect outlet like a NA group setting like is better than white knuckling it.
you can still unlock more of your own potential and understand yourself better
Which is why I avoided saying “full potential” like it’s a life panacea and any failure to achieve 100% is your personal failure instead of the program’s.
Yes please only go to board certified professionals for mental health and/or therapy, and please please puhhlease don’t make an LLM or authority figure like a priest your therapist…
I don’t disagree with what you said, but most therapists will have a degree in counseling or social work. Psychologists and psychiatrists usually do not work as therapists, although there are exceptions.
The most helpful thing about therapy, for me, was the ability to talk about things going on in your life with someone who’s not your family, not your friend, and has no skin in the game beyond trying to help you make healthy decisions.
Too much of it and yet I also don’t care too much anymore. I’ve learned to just let things go. Forgive? Maybe. I’ll be nice to you. Forget? No, I won’t be betrayed twice by the same person.
Not trying to be a dick, but it’s gonna sound it: Yes, absolutely, just by that comment there are benefits worth the price. I hope you are able to seek the help you need dude.
Till then try not to close down, it’s hard to open again after.
I’m only closed to people who have deleted several years of my life expectancy tbh. I’m pretty open to most people. Perhaps one day I’ll have time to get therapy. Till then I’ll have to vent to friends and strangers on the Interwebs. At least my friends and family are very supportive, so they know what’s been going on.
Sure, compared to food or shelter it’s in the ‘nice to have’ category. But for me at least it’s shown a lot of things that I would never have understood or probed deeply enough to address. Better relationships, more understanding of self/finding your actual self, handle adversity better, etc etc
You don’t have to sign up for endless sessions, you can quite viably do a few introductory sessions and ask for takeaway homework/tools to use. Return as needed or when you’ve found a new topic that you feel needs work.
Just do what I do and hate yourself enough while being introspective to never avoid the rough roads. I’m a ridiculously better person than I used to be without having to pay someone else a week’s worth of groceries for an hour of venting.
It’s the days you rawdog life and go home without music. Thems the days.
Go to therapy y’all. Even if you had a perfect upbringing and zero trauma or adversity, you can still unlock more of your own potential and understand yourself better. Even an imperfect outlet like a NA group setting like is better than white knuckling it.
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That “unlocking your full potential” sounds more like personal coach pseudoscience than actual medical practice, though.
Be sure to go to actual collegiate professionals with a certified degree in psychology or psychiatry.
Which is why I avoided saying “full potential” like it’s a life panacea and any failure to achieve 100% is your personal failure instead of the program’s.
Yes please only go to board certified professionals for mental health and/or therapy, and please please puhhlease don’t make an LLM or authority figure like a priest your therapist…
I don’t disagree with what you said, but most therapists will have a degree in counseling or social work. Psychologists and psychiatrists usually do not work as therapists, although there are exceptions.
Therapy costs money. What’s it gonna do for me that’s worth the cost?
The most helpful thing about therapy, for me, was the ability to talk about things going on in your life with someone who’s not your family, not your friend, and has no skin in the game beyond trying to help you make healthy decisions.
Depends on your damage.
Too much of it and yet I also don’t care too much anymore. I’ve learned to just let things go. Forgive? Maybe. I’ll be nice to you. Forget? No, I won’t be betrayed twice by the same person.
Not trying to be a dick, but it’s gonna sound it: Yes, absolutely, just by that comment there are benefits worth the price. I hope you are able to seek the help you need dude.
Till then try not to close down, it’s hard to open again after.
I’m only closed to people who have deleted several years of my life expectancy tbh. I’m pretty open to most people. Perhaps one day I’ll have time to get therapy. Till then I’ll have to vent to friends and strangers on the Interwebs. At least my friends and family are very supportive, so they know what’s been going on.
Sure, compared to food or shelter it’s in the ‘nice to have’ category. But for me at least it’s shown a lot of things that I would never have understood or probed deeply enough to address. Better relationships, more understanding of self/finding your actual self, handle adversity better, etc etc
You don’t have to sign up for endless sessions, you can quite viably do a few introductory sessions and ask for takeaway homework/tools to use. Return as needed or when you’ve found a new topic that you feel needs work.
Just do what I do and hate yourself enough while being introspective to never avoid the rough roads. I’m a ridiculously better person than I used to be without having to pay someone else a week’s worth of groceries for an hour of venting.