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awaiting dawn
Killjoy
Age: 29
Gender: Female
Posts: 39 | May 28th, 2009 at 04:56pm
What kind of things make you need therapy. And if you think you need therapy you should you turn to for help. Is it ok to make people go to therapy because of a certain opinion?
Give me all your true opinions on this.
Thanks! |
Your Ghost.
Thinking Happy Thoughts
Age: 28
Gender: Female
Posts: 440 | May 28th, 2009 at 09:01pm Honestly, it depends on what opinion. Mostly, I would leave the ability of the person possibly in need of therapy to choose. If the person is in danger the someone elses opinion may put them into therapy. Although, I want to also point out, that if someone is forced into therapy it may not even help them because they don't feel that they need to be there. So, I guess it goes a few ways. |
LunacyFringe
Killjoy
Age: 30
Gender: Female
Posts: 82 | May 28th, 2009 at 10:15pm It takes a certain type of person to be helped by therapy. Im someone who has always been more shy and never liked talking about my feelings to people I dont know well. So when my parents took me to therapy, it didnt help me much because I didnt have anything to say.
If you need someone to talk to, and it helps you to talk to someone, then I say go see a therapist and talk your heart out, and if thats not your style, then it might not benefit you much.
People go to therapy for all typed of reasons. Whether you have depression, anxiety, or you just need somone to talk to about life. Its up to you. |
awaiting dawn
Killjoy
Age: 29
Gender: Female
Posts: 39 | May 29th, 2009 at 05:08pm Exactly! If someone is forced into therapy, they don't want 2 be there so they won't listen 2 any of which the therapist says. Which might even make them even more mad then before therapy. But if someone is in danger, i just would tell a parent or teacher so they can help that certain person. (maybe not by therapy but still) |
questionable content
Always Born a Crime
Age: 28
Gender: Female
Posts: 5604 | May 30th, 2009 at 11:35am If someone's in danger, doesn't want to go to therapy, and is forced to talk about it (which frequently includes therapy, actually), how is that any different from anyone else who is forced to go? |
xxtoryxx
Killjoy
Age: 28
Gender: Female
Posts: 51 | May 30th, 2009 at 12:15pm Truthfully I think that you need theripy when you have sumthing bothering you or your just mest up. But I would'nt no cuz I've never been to theripy. And you tern to a parent or someone you really trust...I gess. |
t'lema
Salute You in Your Grave
Age: 33
Gender: Female
Posts: 2109 | May 30th, 2009 at 12:19pm awaiting dawn:Exactly! If someone is forced into therapy, they don't want 2 be there so they won't listen 2 any of which the therapist says. Which might even make them even more mad then before therapy. But if someone is in danger, i just would tell a parent or teacher so they can help that certain person. (maybe not by therapy but still)
Just a head up, you need to watch your chat speak, the mods don't like it 
People can only be forced into therapy (in the UK) if the police and a consulted psychologist agree they are a danger to themselves or others. Then they are committed to hospital for treatment. It is difficult to tell whether people gain much from this, but as someone with experience in counselling, I can say it is hugely helpful and effective.
Also, if you're in the UK you can get it free on the NHS (although there is a waiting list) |
Fever
Killjoy
Age: -
Gender: Female
Posts: 7 | September 15th, 2011 at 08:24pm Honestly, what can people do to help besides therapy? What do they know? A lot of things about how the mind works are still total mysteries, and therapy is something that people usually think of when they think someone needs 'mental help'. Obviously they'd try that first, sometimes regardless of what the person says because they want to help and it's the only way they think they can |
Darkromance
Banned
Age: -
Gender: -
Posts: 322 | October 10th, 2011 at 10:43pm a person should never be forced into therapy unless he/she thinks that he/she needs it and wants to change for the better. I've known grown adults with shitty, hung up attitudes about life, and therapy didn't help them change their attitudes because they thought that they were right (they were told to live their lives and to look to the future and to forget the past and all its irrelevent details) |
malibu.
In the Cannibal Glow
Age: 30
Gender: -
Posts: 54114 | October 28th, 2011 at 09:10am You definitley need to want to be in therapy for it to work, there is no other way around it, other than realising the fact you need help. I'm not sure about other people, but I have a lot of councelling services in my country, very easy to get in touch with through school on your doctor. I definitley think therapy is a good idea. I myself have seen school councellors, and my doctor has given me the choice of seeing someone I can talk to, or alternatively taking medication.
I personally think therapy is the only true way to discover what's wrong, or just what's going on inside your head. While I personally have considered anti-depressants, they only help block out issues so you can focus on your life, they don't solve anything at all. I found it really hard to admit I needed help because I'm a stubbourn person, and being the eldest child doesn't make me any softer. Therapists usually commend you for coming to see them though. I do wish they were percieved more friendlier as opposed to sterile, unemotional and pushy. |
paradox;
Demolition Lover
Age: 29
Gender: -
Posts: 19881 | November 18th, 2011 at 10:22am My mum's been looking into therapy for me. I have pretty bad self-esteem issues to the point where it's disrupting my life and I'm positive that this will only get worse in college.
it's weird, though, because I don't think my problems are "bad" enough to need therapy for them. I know obviously that isn't true, because anyone can go to therapy for anything, no matter how small or insignificant, but I always feel like I don't deserve a therapist. Like I'm not... messed up enough to have one? I know that sounds really stupid, but it's just what my brain makes me think sometimes.
She's not forcing me to go, though. I'm willing to go just to see if it helps. But does anyone else feel like some problems don't really warrant therapy? Or feel that way about their own problems? |
brandleys;
Death Defying
Age: 29
Gender: Female
Posts: 186346 | November 19th, 2011 at 03:21am Well it may depend on the person really. For some people other things may seem worse to them than to others.
Therapy only helps if you let it help, but it also takes a good professional. The therapist I have now is good, but all the ones before her were dreadful. There needs to be trust when talking to a therapist. When I was 14 I had a therapist who did not take anything I said seriously and I was sent to the psychiatric hospital because she thought I was crazy. She told my mom things that were unnecessary for her to tell her about and it made me distrust her as well. The therapist I have now is the total opposite-- she asks me after nearly every session what's okay to share with my mom about or not, and doesn't just guess what's okay. |
ViperVenom13
Banned
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Posts: 8 | November 25th, 2011 at 10:37pm I think Therapy is a good way to help people in hard times. People should go to therapy even if they think their emotional health isn't too bad. It can still help. |
