I don’t think it really addresses what’s wrong with a person. Drug someone up with a potent hallucinogen and they have a bad trip and they will get issues they never had before.
Psychoanalysis is good if you want to understand the root of your issues or understand things about yourself and learn about yourself. It’s not really good for learning immediate coping mechanisms. That’s my experience.
I started seeing a psychotherapist because I wanted to start dealing with the trauma of my past and it has been helpful for that.
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Based on my own experiences and with conversing with others, the voices will try to keep you in the past and make the past and some bad event(s) define you.
Psychoanalysis can do a lot of harm when dealing with psychosis.
There are a lot of crappy therapists out there any way.
I think therapy is pretty fake. Its not enjoyable going to i feel worse leaving and we dont talk about anything. What good is talking about my problems. It doesnt help anything. It only makes me think of my problems which in turn makes me more depressed
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Yeah I rather look towards the future than the past. I think psychosis makes you analyze your past too much.
I think psychosis can give you special snowflake syndrome. Make you too sensitive, too introspective.
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The past is baggage – weighs a fair bit and inconvenient to carry with you everywhere. Slows you down. Best to unpack your bags and put them in the closet where they belong. If therapy can help a person do that, it’s time well spent.
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Therapy helped some with my depression; sometimes just getting it off my chest helped me feel a little better. I rarely spoke of my past traumas, though, didn’t see any benefit in doing that. I don’t think it would help at all for psychosis; psychosis is so chemical-based that the only thing that can help it is proper medication.
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Come back to the light.
You’re haunted…
Some people think they are Hitler incarnate at least your not that bad off…
Things therapist have said… woot
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I’m not saying that all therapy is a waste of time.
CBT has helped many Psychotic patients.
Finding a suitable therapist can be challenging but not impossible.
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I think it is all just a bunch of ■■■■■■■■ to psyche you out. ■■■■ to distract you from thinking critically about the world. And thinking critically about the world IMO aint total conformity with what the people around you believe.
Meds gave me the stability and the beginnings of insight. Therapy and CBT gave me a toolkit to build on that foundation and help shove the voices back into the corner where they belong. I accept that I will need to continue with all of the above for the rest of my life (in the absence of a complete cure being developed).
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It seems to be the makings of a situation where people tell you what to do and believe for the rest of your life.
Truth. I had one Russian import who sounded like a Bond villain. The sessions were … memorable.
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It’s actually a lot more helpful than you might think. It densensitizes you to the traumas. My first times bringing stuff up was very difficult, involved dissociation, psychosis, etc. But now I can bring things up and talk about them without spiraling at all. I can look back on my past and not be as deeply affected by it. You learn to accept it for what it was.
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@anna I don’t know about that …
I was beaten pretty bad by step dad as a kid and watched him beat mom and death threaten her…
I’ve got ptsd from it.
I opened up to therapist about it…
It doesn’t really change the fact the damage was done and I’ll never be normal cuz of it…
I’ve learned to accept fate on my own terms, not because I talked to a stranger about my thoughts and feelings…
Ironically when we were younger therapist told my mom that I’d be OK later in life because I opened up and talked about everything
And they said my sister would take a while because she didn’t open up and talk about things so easily.
She’s married with 3 kids now and is a pretty decent mom…
I’m 30 no kids no wife no job, literally nothing to show at all for the past 30 years.
I was the one who was open about things I ended up going from bi polar to sz…
She was close off and she ended up with an illness but she’s off meds and able to function in life
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Yeah I noticed I didn’t completely go crazy until I simply wrote down my problems in a word processor.
Well everyone is different. It helped me because it got all the awful out of my head.
I don’t think the awful stuff in my head will ever go away because I have lots of nightmares and they seem real and then I have to wake up and say no its not