How does talking to a professional about your problems help you in any way? I’ve been in and out of therapy for years and I simply don’t find any use in it. I just tell the therapist about my emotions and my life, they try to be understanding and offer some very basic advice I already knew about. Why is therapy often recommended more than medication and thought of as a better solution when it’s literally just normal discussion that can’t change brain chemistry?
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You have to work through your fight or flight mechanism. Pills numb the response, therapy helps lessen the mechanism activation by teaching you how to see the situation differently. If you do it long enough, well enough, you can actual break a chest-tightness-inducing situation down while it’s happening. Your anxiety will spike, and this is where a combined therapy and medication approach is advised, but you most likely won’t be throwing up at 3am or whenever based on your brain betraying you.
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