How does saying things out loud help solve anything? How is it different than just thinking about your problems?
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Imagine your car. You probably don’t know all the nuances of its mechanics. You might only know that it runs on gas. Maybe you think that shudder on braking is normal. Maybe the check engine light just came on.
With a car, you’d take it to a mechanic, who knows precisely how everything works and can fix it themselves while you wait
But your brain is a closed system and customized to your life.
So the “mechanic” can’t reach it and only understands all the parts in conceptual and general terms.
Talk therapy is like having a mechanic on the phone to help you fix the car. You have to tell them what you see and they tell you how to fix it based on how they understand what you say you see.
Talk therapy is about getting all those jumbled thoughts organized enough to express them. This makes them easier for the brain to handle because the brain is a pattern recognition machine. The therapist pushes back, turn a bolt here, reframe there. Pull out that filter, check your breathing and unclench your body.
You only get one car/brain. Maybe it just needs maintenance. Maybe it’s a clunker. But with a good therapist, you can ride straight to the end of a long, happy life
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