When my marriage broke up, I went to three separate therapists, and each was worse than the last. I can only speak for myself. There are other people it's been incredibly useful for, but not me.
I don't think there's anything better than talk therapy.
I tried therapy. This had never appealed to me. For me, it was a bit like a Chinese meal: very filling at the time, but then an hour later you're hungry again.
I have tried therapy a couple of times, but it hasn't worked.
I realized that therapy helps me explain what I'm feeling better.
The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.
I've struggled a lot with therapy because it's got a stigma to it, and also, it's really gotta work for you, I've found.
The first time I went to therapy, I had to stop going because they were making me hate my parents.
I still think you shouldn't use acting as therapy.
I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.
I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.
Therapy is so personal but it can be a really amazing tool so long as you are not forced into it.
I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.
One of the leading theories of why electroconvulsive therapy is effective for most severe depressions is that it causes a loss of short-term memory - patients feel better because they can't remember why they were sad.
There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.
I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it. Then I found that it intensively went into every irrelevancy under the sun - and that it didn't work. People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
If, like me, you have many reasons to be less than secure and self-assured, and like me, you are far from stable even on your best days, don't for a moment imagine a psychotherapist will be of more help than a physiotherapist.
I think psychotherapy saves lives and is hugely meaningful and I think that one of the unfortunate aspects of prescription drugs working well is that people tend to think that's enough.
I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?
Going into therapy doesn't guarantee poop on toast.
If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn't. It's called the 'nocebo' effect.
Although no one treatment will ever be a panacea, research studies indicate that cognitive therapy can be helpful for a variety of disorders in addition to depression.
Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece.
Everybody wants a robot that will do psychotherapy. But If you don't have empathy, you don't have psychotherapy. The robot doesn't know about life.
I went into therapy several times, but it rarely made an impact.
