How is therapy effective when you (typically) only talk for one hour per week?
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There’s no simple answer. A huge part of it us finding the right therapist and the treatment that works. The rest is the work someone does outside the sessions based on what was learned. It’s a lot of trial and error and it’s far from perfect, but it’s a process.
There’s no simple answer. A huge part of it us finding the right therapist and the treatment that works. The rest is the work someone does outside the sessions based on what was learned. It’s a lot of trial and error and it’s far from perfect, but it’s a process.
I am not any sort of expert on the subject, but my thought is this:
In our lives, every interaction is colored by the circumstances, stakes, and relationship between the two people. When you talk to friends, family, coworkers, etc. everything about your relationship frames and affects the way you interact. All that unspoken stuff is there constantly.
With a therapist, however, there is none of that real-life stuff. So you are free to communicate just for the sake of communicating. Without all the usual stressors, you have a greater chance of getting to purest truths of your feelings and perceptions.
It might only be an hour a week, but it’s an hour that’s totally unlike any other hour of talking you might get. Most people don’t get *any* of that kind of talking in their lives.
I am not any sort of expert on the subject, but my thought is this:
In our lives, every interaction is colored by the circumstances, stakes, and relationship between the two people. When you talk to friends, family, coworkers, etc. everything about your relationship frames and affects the way you interact. All that unspoken stuff is there constantly.
With a therapist, however, there is none of that real-life stuff. So you are free to communicate just for the sake of communicating. Without all the usual stressors, you have a greater chance of getting to purest truths of your feelings and perceptions.
It might only be an hour a week, but it’s an hour that’s totally unlike any other hour of talking you might get. Most people don’t get *any* of that kind of talking in their lives.
Bc therapy isn’t just talking, it’s about giving you tools to deal with mental illness/ distressing situations/ trauma and teaching you how to use them.
It’s like school. You might only do one or two hours a week of a particular subject where the teacher just talks, but over time it’s enough to give you the knowledge you need about something. Therapy is the same.
I am not any sort of expert on the subject, but my thought is this:
In our lives, every interaction is colored by the circumstances, stakes, and relationship between the two people. When you talk to friends, family, coworkers, etc. everything about your relationship frames and affects the way you interact. All that unspoken stuff is there constantly.
With a therapist, however, there is none of that real-life stuff. So you are free to communicate just for the sake of communicating. Without all the usual stressors, you have a greater chance of getting to purest truths of your feelings and perceptions.
It might only be an hour a week, but it’s an hour that’s totally unlike any other hour of talking you might get. Most people don’t get *any* of that kind of talking in their lives.
Bc therapy isn’t just talking, it’s about giving you tools to deal with mental illness/ distressing situations/ trauma and teaching you how to use them.
It’s like school. You might only do one or two hours a week of a particular subject where the teacher just talks, but over time it’s enough to give you the knowledge you need about something. Therapy is the same.
Bc therapy isn’t just talking, it’s about giving you tools to deal with mental illness/ distressing situations/ trauma and teaching you how to use them.
It’s like school. You might only do one or two hours a week of a particular subject where the teacher just talks, but over time it’s enough to give you the knowledge you need about something. Therapy is the same.
Those hours add up. They’re also (ideally) spent talking through things we typically don’t try to resolve on our own time.
That hour is spent on difficult topics that you typically can’t process or talk about with anyone else. It’s an hour week to take time to work on yourself
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