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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread just proves that people don't generally come looking for true information, much less different opinions, so much as they come looking to validate their own point of view.

If you think therapy is a good and useful thing, then it probably will be helpful to you. If you think it's "anti-science hokey" or something you have zero need of, then it likely won't be of value.

Pretty much a self-perpetuating discussion here and real life decision making.

I feel for your wife OP.[/quote]

I came here to discuss why some people are so attached to the idea that we all have some deep unaddressed trauma that needs to be talked out, and lots of people have made thoughtful suggestions for ways that one can better themself that don't involve all that, and a small number of people who seem totally in thrall to the idea of paying a therapist to talk about unhappy things have reacted very poorly.[/quote]

I’m the PP you were talking to about Freud and I actually have found it very useful to talk to a therapist about unhappy things. But in my case, it was more of a “wow I am super anxious whenever my parents visit, what’s up with that?” and unpacking a lot of the unhappy stuff helped me to understand what was going on and then move past it. Now I am able to enjoy their visits, or at least enjoy my kids enjoying them. But we approached the talking about unhappy things in a very CBT way: OK, what are the thoughts that are occurring when you think about your parents, etc. etc. Learning to recognize the patterns was key to interrupting them. And now I’m done!

But I know someone who has cut off a bad dad and is sad that things were such that that was the right call, but whatever, that’s life. And I don’t think that person needs therapy to deal with it.[/quote]

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