How does saying things out loud help solve anything? How is it different than just thinking about your problems?
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A therapist can also help you notice patterns and habits that you have, and figure out strategies for breaking out of them.
People bash Sigmund Freud a lot these days, but one of his real contributions to psychiatry was the idea that people have subconscious motivations. We can sabotage ourselves, and do weird things over and over in pursuit of some goal buried in our psyche, and we can have a huge blind spot about it all at the same time. It’s really hard to self-diagnose stuff like that.
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