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by dont0say0iloveyou on September 12th, 2007

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Why do people think that therapy can help a teenager with suicide thoughts?
when its practicly torture

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  • by Athrael on September 13th, 2007

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    Yes. If the teenager is willing or able to talk.

    See all a therapist does is guide you to your own conclusions... at least the good therapist does.

    A good therapist may shed insight from time to time or hand you tools to cope or deal or better manage what is going on inside.

    Of course the best therapist in the world can not help you if you decide not to talk. If you lie or tell mis truths of half truths the therapy will not work.

    Yes it can be hard, it can also be easy. Ultimately it is what you make of it.

    If you do not want to talk about the problem itself, then say "I do not want to talk about it" But you need to talk about something, so talk about your day, talk about something that happened to you that affected you.

    A lot of ground is covered in talking about seemingly unrelated things. Of course you need to let the therapist know that you want to talk about other stuff.

    They (therapists) take notes for a reason, it is assumed that you will talk about a lot of stuff - they take notes so when you talk about how your dog made you cry in April they can remember that when you talk about how your dog made you laugh in October. Although many months separate the two events - they are connected and they tell something which will help in the long run.

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  • by .....----- on February 22nd, 2008

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    Because it can help if you are willing to get better, sometimes i don't feel like talking and yeah is torture but if i see it from another point of view i'm still alive and that is worth 3 hours of torture a week.

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  • by Grandma Roses - my avatar is my real dog on February 22nd, 2008

    Grandma Roses - my avatar is my real dog

    It's like a lot of things that hurt in the short term but help in the long term. I had major, major surgery some 20 years ago. The pain was unbelievable, but if I hadn't had it, I would probably have been dead within a couple of years, leaving 3 young children without a mother. I had the advantage of having confidence in my health practitioner; it seems that you don't. I knew what result I wanted (staying alive) and I got that result by co-operating with my surgeon.

    Please continue with your therapy. Even tiny steps forward are better than no steps.

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  • by friend2umon on February 22nd, 2008

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    The illusion is to think that therapy is therapeutic, yet it is equally illusory to limit one's understanding of their self as merely a body. To the degree then that the direction of any dialog questions this limitation, the efficacy is self-evident. You might then consider that therapy may propose alternative paradigms for seeing oneself and others. Neither the therapist nor the paradigms heal, however, they may foster a release for the person that temporarily seems themselves in need of therapeutic intervention. The direction of the release need merely point the patient to their own self-healing abilities.

    -Nash-

    http://www.emergentthoughts.com/

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  • by Pinkheavens on February 22nd, 2008

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    They want desperately to help you, but they don't know how to do it themselves....

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  • by - AJ - on September 13th, 2007

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    Some it helps, some it doesn't, it didn't really do either for me... maybe it was a bit helpful, but if often made me worse and I've always dreaded the appointments... I just rely on the tablets, self harm, and try my bets not to get that low again, but I can't fight forever and every now and again there's another attempt. I can only hope I'll grow out of it, but what can you do when you're prone to it, it's not reactive depression, it's juts ingrained in your personality and you hurt for no apparant reason... I can't see how therapy will help that.... but yes I'm still having a few appointments... hmmmmm x

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