Effectiveness of therapy is real

[EverydayProfessional]

I went for a Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy a few days ago and realised that people have actually created many misconceptions about therapy and those are promoted as well.
Therapy is not a waste of time and neither it is something which could be performed by self.
It is not just about talking or a conversation but also includes different techniques which an ordinary person would not understand.
So I am here just to share that therapy is simple, convenient and effective especially those who are under some psychological issue or facing any challenge, they must consider it.

Oh definitely - therapy in many forms is why I’m still alive today.

The zeal of the newly converted. I suppose every revelation comes with a missionary phase.

there are many therapies that get put down because it’s in the best interests of big pharma to do so.

They dont like talking therapies, swimming, acupuncture, kinesiology etc because there’s no pills made by them and giving them profit when we use these. It’s skill not pills.

CBT is proven to work.

Proven to work for what? And in how many cases and for how long?

i dont know the answer to your question but talking therapy generally does work once you get the right one and right therapist for you.

the nhs presumably wouldnt pay staff to deliver it if it didn’t give results.

It’s never really worked for me. Recently had EMDR and it honestly felt like a joke.

I think for a lot of people just need someone to talk to and be interested in them, if you have to pay for that and call it therapy and it helps, fine. The hope that there is a 'cure' and this is they way to fix it is also very important in it working.

Can you say a bit more about this. I am currently undergoing EMDR treatment.

I agree with this.

Yep, I’m ashamed that I’m such a loser that I have to pay £70 a week for someone to pretend to care about what happens to me.

I have had 3 attempts. First I found entirely useless, pretended I felt better just to end the sessions 🤦🏼‍♀️ Second was better,
really liked the therapist but found a lot of what was being said just common sense (to me) Third and final attempt - absolutely brilliant! Therapist was a gentleman of retirement age, I was a female in my 30s so wasn’t sure if we would gel or whatever but he was fantastic and I went for a year!

I don’t know what else to say. I found the whole thing just ridiculous.