1.
What is therapy?
Therapy has been known as "the cure through
words". It is characterized by a series of private and confidential
sessions with a therapist. Each session lasts one hour and a half and
t can be held weekly or once every two weeks, depending upon the patients'
expectations. An important factor for the success of a therapy is that
the patient should feel well and comfortable with his/her therapist
and sees him/her as someone trustworthy, open minded, competent and
moral. It's essential that the patient feels he/she can to relate well
to his/her therapist and that he/she will be able to understand the
patients' problems. But the most important thing, yet, is that the patient
feels that his/her life is indeed changing because of the therapy.
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2. When should onde serch
for a therapist?
The most conservative answer to this question
is if you have a difficult problem it doesn't necessarily mean that you
need therapy. Our lives are made up of misshappenings, one after another.
When the same misshappening keeps happening over and over again you may
need therapy. Any person can be benefited by therapy, and the benefits
are greater when this person isn't going through a crisis.
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3. Under which more specific
circumstances should onde search for a therapist?
One should seek for a therapist when he/she
is undergoing these specific problems that have great influence over their
quality of life:
- depression, stress or lack of enthusiasm
- unhappiness in a marriage
- help for his/her child/children when
facing school problems or problems with the law
- difficulty of sleeping, eating or having
sex
- involvement in an abusive relationship
- concern and anxiety regarding his/her
own death or the death of a relative/friend
- use of drugs or alcohol
- thoughts of suicide
- feeling of panic or fear
- when one feels that is/her life is being
wasted
- when one is frequently ill or has chronic
diseases
- when getting a divorce or separation
- when one has survived an accident or
been through great trauma
- when one feels unexplainable tiredness
or lack of motivation.
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4. Why are some people
so opposed to therapy?
Because they feel that therapy is intended
only for those who are "mad" or "sick". They think that to seek therapy
shameful or weak, for they believe that normal and mentally healthy adults
should not need help from another person to live their lives well. This
belief also comes from the many terrible experiences some people have
had of therapy with incompetent therapists.
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