A local psychotherapy firm is offering free counselling on Friday afternoons from 2-4 p.m. I called them this past Friday to see if they were to still offering it, except they can’t do it at their offices because of the virus. My only concern is, are my problems serious enough to talk to a psychotherapist? All I know is things really started to go bad for me in grade 6 when I hardly ever got my homework done. That was a little more than 31 years ago, but I think it sent me off on a really bad trajectory. Just putting it out there.
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If you like talk therapy, there are plenty of “normal” people that go there.
If you are sz then you have a big reason you could go there.
What I mean by “serious enough”, @dreamer54, I don’t think I had it as rough as my dad did, or what my brother went through. It’s just that I feel I’ve been remembering and holding on to these memories for too long.
You have all the right to go to counselling. People go there for less.
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Its useless for schizophrenia.
Maybe useful for smoething else.
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Not true at all. I don´t do it myself because I don´t like it tho.
If the patient is willing to do it it has benefits for positives, negatives and depression.
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Well it didn’t help me lmao
Did it help you?
What’s your medical proof?
Psychologists are not trained to treat schizophrenia, that’s a known fact.
Psychiatrists are trained to treat schizophrenia, psychologists aren’t. They can’t prescribe meds.
??? just do a quick search for "scientific articles on counselling for schizophrenia ".
There isn’t solid info. My psychiatrist would have referred me to a psychologist if it helps, he said it doesn’t.
And, psychiatrists are trained to treat schizophrenia, psychologists aren’t. They can’t prescribe meds
Ok u right. 15151515
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I find talking therapy with the psychologist to be tiresome and pointless.
I ended up with another label to add to my Schizophrenia because of it as well.
It’s up to you how much you want to engage in this kind of thing.
I am just trying to see if it has any benefits but I am yet to see any
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Therapy has helped me a lot, along side medication. I’ve found that therapy is particularly good to help with paranoia and delusions. You just have to go there with the right attitude to get better.
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How do you know its not the meds that are helping?
Were you able to stop meds with psychtherapy?
Only meds stopped my psychosis.
I wasted 200$ and 45min on psychotherapy, the psychologist was just feeding my delusions and my brain just made new delusions everytime.
Meds stopped that, no more delusions.
Of course the meds helped, but so did therapy. Therapy alone won’t help you much. My therapist has also worked with a lot of schizophrenics, so he knows a thing or two about this illness. The best thing therapy has ever done for me was teaching me to stay positive even with the worse of symptoms like paranoia.
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I’m not really talking about schizophrenia but issues relating to bullying and physical abuse anyway.
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It doesn’t matter how “serious” your problems are. Some people just go to therapy because they have work related stress or some other mundane thing and need a place to vent and to learn how better to cope with it. A good rule of thumb is if you feel like you need therapy, you probably need therapy. It can’t hurt.
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The best thing I can recall from my psychotherapy is that he said “You don´t need to greet people that do you wrong, you can just ignore if you see them in the street”
That was eye opener. I was too cordial to some people before.
Were you able to lower your meds dosage with psychotherapy?
Yes, @dreamer54, especially during my last semester of high school, I really think I was too outgoing. But, believe it or not, there were times growing up I could be downright nasty towards other kids, myself.