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Yes as far as I understand therapy is fairly effective at treating anxiety disorders surrounding specific triggers.Most therapy is pointless to counterproductive. If it doesn’t have an aim or a set goal to stop then it’s just whinging. I know someone who was in an earthquake and trapped and she had therapy to help her not react so badly to certain stimuli. She found it very helpful, but it was a set goal - desensitising to x and y. To just go and spend money for someone to affirm your delusions is not helping, it’s making things worse
Ironically I always thought one element probably was positive: The fact that therapy involves a person who might be kind of a depressed shut in being forced to shower, leave their cave, then go someplace different and actually speak to a real person for a while.
If someone already has people to talk to obviously that won't be that ground breaking, but if you're dealing with someone who's severely depressed or stuck in a rut, just that little bit of momentum and change of scenery can have a positive effect.
Of course then covid came around and the industry decided "Actually that whole human to human thing is too inconvenient, we'll all switch to remote therapy so everyone can keep sitting at their computer staring at a screen instead" which proceeded to strip modern therapy of its sole consistently beneficial element.
Bug people love it though as some form of modern secular confession, and to be on topic to the thread there seem to be modern social media addicted women who see it as some type of means of controlling males to the point I've heard of these hos going on dating apps and saying shit like "The most attractive thing to me is someone who goes to therapy", which of course actually means the most desirable thing to them is a soft and easily controlled dude who's self doubting and will let himself be treated like a doormat.
Then you fall for the trap and slowly turn into Idubbbz.
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