How psychotherapy helps you to deal with depression?
I have been going to the counselor for over three months and I have stopped commiting or planning suicide.I haven’t thought about giving up these three months at all,everything is better,still being sad sometimes though.But,I haven’t understand what changed,I just go there twice in a week and talk about my chilhood,my relationship with my family,friends,boys and generally people.How psychotherapy makes me see life in a different(better) way?
tsuigou said,
Wrote on March 17, 2010 @ 3:28 am
From what I understand when I look at myself, when I’m depressed it usually means that I’m carrying too much on my shoulders.
For me, it means that I have certain problems with certain things and not talking about them makes it feel like you’re carrying a heavy burden that’s threatening to crush you.
Talking to someone forces you to deal with those problems (be it subconsciously or consciously) and thus lightens the burden or lifts it completely.
That’s what they mean when they say that it helps to talk about your problems to someone who understands. Some of these problems may be obvious, others may be lingering or subconscious and thus not so obvious.
I hope this helps.
pay it forward said,
Wrote on March 17, 2010 @ 3:50 am
Everything in life needs to circulate. So we breathe in but we need to breathe out to get a fresh breath. Even when a person has money & holds on to tight things start to happen so they will let go of someone it. Oprah gives away a ton of money cause she has to in order to bring more in…when you talk to someone you are letting all of that out instead of holding it in. I coach people but I do many other things instead of being a therapist we talk about anything but I do make sure we have them set a couple goals for the week. The point is that for an hour every week we just focus on them. Just letting that stuff out takes on a life of its own.
Evofirst said,
Wrote on March 17, 2010 @ 4:02 am
Depression is worst when the only person we talk to is ourselves. That is to say that we talk to ourselves in the head and have no answer to our questions.
Depression is also worst when there is no one to talk to and no one understands what we feel.
All the negative feelings we have inside just fester and fester and eventually it overwhelmed us that we cannot see any way out rather than killing oneself.
Psychotherapy helps by allowing us to express our negative feelings by talking and unburdening the heavy load we have been carrying all these while. After some time, things that appeared to be overwhelming bad or futile will start to appear trivial and life is actually easier to manage.
In short, you start feeling more in control of your life and emotions are not running amok, you start to think and see clearly and feel that you are now in charge of your life.
craziibuti_ful said,
Wrote on March 17, 2010 @ 5:01 am
They are just making the subconscious conscious for you. In psychotherapy, they believe that people’s psychological problems lie, primarily, in their childhood experiences and life so by making you talk about these experiences they help you uncover the things that might have played a role in making you feel the way you do, or DID, before the therapy sessions.