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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No-one can ever erase the trauma, but therapy should help you to manage the impacts of the trauma. It helps manage the emotions associated with trauma and can provide better coping mechanisms to help people live their lives without the trauma overshadowing everything.
Therapy helps people process what happened to them, which medicine can’t do. The trick is to find the right therapist, who helps you do the real work. Like any profession, there are people who will be ineffective in helping people, and its a process of elimination until you can find the right one who can help you implement the basic advice. Often people don’t realise that is happening, until time has passed, and they re-evaluate progess. Hope that helps.
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