Today I had my first session with my new therapist. I'm not disturbed or anything, I just believe they help people and I need someone to talk to. Have you ever been to a therapist? Did you get the help you need? Do you believe that therapy can help people?

I've been in therapy because of me being depressed over my parents divorce like I used to be all bubbly then once they divorced i just fell apart and i hardly talked. a great period of depression..but now that has passed! I think my therapist like me ^.^ he gave me candy XDD

When I was in middle school, right after my eighth grade year, I had a really bad summer. One of my friends had discovered Wicca and was trying to get me involved, so I was experimenting with that, as well as some other things she encouraged me to try, such as shoplifting. I was also not a very respectful child, and my parents wound up reading my journal, thus finding out about everything. They told me to stop seeing that friend, and also took me to therapy for a while to help express my feelings so we would understand one another better. I think the Therapy actually helped me out a lot. The therapist encouraged me to try expressing myself with art, because I've never been good at using words to describe my feelings, so I drew pictures of the feelings I had for my father and mother, and then together we tried to find words for the images, describing the feelings.

I think therapists are good for people, because everyone needs someone to listen to them sometimes. I imagine being a therapist could get emotionally draining though, having to deal with so many people's problems. Maybe they have special training in being detached from that sort of emotion.

The therapy did help my parents and I rebuild our relationship, and we're on really good terms now. I haven't kept a journal since then though.It kind of shattered my trust in having a private area to confide my thoughts, because if my parents can find and read it, who is to say some one else might not do the same thing later? I may be slightly weird for preferring to lose thoughts entirely then have someone else read them, but I've always been a rather private person. If my private thoughts cannot stay private, then I will not keep a journal...

I've seen one once.

I was having what my doctor called 'anxiety attacks' pretty much every other day. Most of the time, there was no clear reason as to why I was panicking. I had a bad one in school one day and they decided to rush me off to the hospital, which eventually led to me going to a therapist. He thought that I was having them because I was scared for my dad. (Long story.) While I wouldn't be directly thinking about him, the thoughts were always in my subconscious and that's what led to the attacks. Then he told me that, except for the attacks, I sounded like a normal, mature teenager and he told me to leave.

Guess being 'normal and mature' means you can deal with it on your own? =/

I suppose giving me a reason why they occurred was some sort of help, but other than that, he really wasn't helpful at all. If I need someone to talk to, I'd rather call my friends, a family member, or talk to people over the internet if I need to talk to someone about something I don't want anyone in my life to know. It's a hell of a lot cheaper and probably just as helpful.

Don't get me wrong, I think some therapists have the ability to really help people. You just have to find one of them, because there are a lot of them that do pretty much jack for you.

I have not just a psychologist, but also a psychiatrist. I have to go because I have actual issues. e_________e;;
This thread reminded me that I haven't seen my Balding Bitch in awhile. I should probably go do that eventually.

Of course, she doesn't help me in the least but at least she sympathizes with whatever I'm ranting about.

I'm having really bad mental [and uncontrollable] violence issues, which have been getting worse. If I told my parents about it, they won't believe me. >_o If I had my own, and enough money, I would go to a therapist myself.

:o I used to go to a therapist when I was in high school. I had really bad OCD, and I didn't want to start depending on drugs to be normal, so I had to go to therapy a lot to deal with it. It was harder, but it really helped. I'm not saying drugs for your brain are bad, they just weren't for me. I really liked my therapist. If I was doing really well sometimes, she'd give me a break and I would draw pictures or play in a sandbox to express my feelings or something like that. At one of the first sessions, she brought me around to every bathroom in the building and made me touch the doorknobs. :o That was the only time I didn't like her.

I personally think the majority of therapists are ignorant pompous asses, but therapy does help some people, so... :sweat:

I just haven't had any good personal experiences with therapists or psychiatrists. Generally speaking, they don't know what they are dealing with because all their information comes from textbooks written by people who also have not had any personal experience with the things they write about, so when it comes to dealing with REAL people with real problems... they fail, and are extremely easy to convincingly lie to and manipulate. Also, people working in the field of psychology charge a ridiculous amount of their services, and I have never liked the idea of paying someone to talk to me.

I've never been to a therapist, but I sometimes wish I just had someone that I could just call. And they'd listen to me, and not gossip with other people.

I've been to about 2-3 psychiatrists and a counsellor. None of them did anything for me. One actually discharged me after 2 sessions because he found nothing wrong.

I received counseling in elementary school because I was very emotional for some reason, but that's about it. I can't even remember anything from my sessions...except that the counselor would give me M&Ms xD
I don't think the sessions had any real effect on me. I just go better on my own after some time. I probably didn't even need counseling.

I have a therapist I see regularly and a psychiatrist I visit every other month or so. It helps to talk about your problems to others, but I'm not entirely sure they really help much >.>

I'd like to get some therapy sometime.
I don't have any huge issues or anything, but I really feel like I could use it.
Just someone with a professional point of view to listen to me and help me figure out the reasons behind why I do things and why I think things. I don't trust many people to do that, because they're all just uneducated guesses. I want someone who knows their shit.

I may even go into psychology. I find it really fascinating.