Are therapists nothing more than just high priced friends?
I fail to see how therapy can help. If someone has a major problem, unless they can think of the solution themselves, and, put that solution into effect themselves, I don't see how they can truly change.
Answer:
Not exactly. Therapists are worse. Ask yourself: Why would a
person want to get paid for giving people advice? Either:
1. They are too lazy to get a real job (this is the most benign possibility).
2. They are so egotistical that they want people to pay them for their advice.
3. They have a political agenda in giving people particular advice.
4. They are ultra-egotistical sociopaths that want to give their advice
authority, under the claim that they have 'expert knowledge' that only they
and other therapists can have.
Therefore, a therapist is more likely than a randomly-selected individual
to be a distrustworthy psychopath. Psychopathic therapists desire to
suppress those facts. There are some good therapists, but even they
are a waste of money.
Besides, people don't even require friends for emotional well-being.
All a person needs to do is exercise every day, keep one's mind clear
of random thoughts, focus on and control one's emotions, and get a
psychiatric prescription in the case of severe congenital conditions.
In some ways I agree
but therapists can also offer a non-biased view from someone who isn't as afraid of hurting your feelings as a friend might be.
but you're right at the same, for a person to truly change, he/she has to want to- for many though, therapy is a tool to get to that change, not the only means; but a part of it.
They kind of are like freinds. Its like you are paying someone to sit there and listen to your problems. I guess they can help in some situations tho..they may help you look at things in a different light.
definetly therapists are more experianced, less caring, high priced friends
Good question. I'm beginning to think that they are. Although they're supposed to help by offering solutions to your problems. Also for extra reassurance, and to listen.
Yes, and it is sad that no one has time to make long term friends,
Therapists can prescribe medication, be in contact with your physician, keep things private... You may be paying alot, but you don't need to worry about all your problems be amplifyed. Also, the fact that it isn't a friend means that you can unload ANYTHING and it would make you feel tons better afterward.
They won't judge you.
Pretty much. I've tried a few different therapists over the years, and I have a degree in Psychology, and I don't find that it helps much. After suffering from depression for years, I found that meditation/yoga works best for me.
OMG this is why i want to become a therapist!!
Because it is true that they charge just to ask stupid questions.
Getting paid $100 an hour just to have a stupid conversation like:
Therapist: How are you feeling?
Patient: Fine
Therapist: How does that make you feel?
Patient: Sad
Therapist: Blah Blah
...Blah Blah
...3 hours of blah go on...
Patient: So that's how i became depressed
Therapist: *yawn* that will be all for today.
lol maybe i went a lil overboard...hehe
therapist are not your friends. you dont pay friends to see you through your troubled childhood. they do help, b/c they are not your friends they can see you with out lying to you.
Therapist's are trained professionals. They have gone to school and studied all kinds of things that make them better able to help others. Yes, they are like a friend if you develop that rapport with them. Surely you would hope for that. They can give you advice on how best to handle things and perhaps see things differently than you have in the past. Maybe they can point things out to you that you've been blind to in the past. Not all people are on the up and up but if you really need to talk about something that you can't share with a family member then , why not?
pretty much,, you can find the same thing online for free
For a lot of problems, mental illnesses, therapy works. There are a lot of variations and types of therapy, and one problem is that a lot of "therapists" aren't matching your problem to the evidence based treatment. Often, then, a therapist may be less useful than a friend, because of the level of professional trust you give them. On the other hand, a good therapist, that understands treatment modalities, can deliver them correctly, and knows how to match them with your specific problem, is much more than a friend - and often more effective than a pill.
Therapists can be friendly but not friends. They use their training and experience working with clients to help the client see what is keeping them from finding a solution—a blind spot from the client's past experiences perhaps. Therapists must not cross the boundary of getting personally involved with a client..
Your problems may seem very personal but in fact they probably fit neatly into a well defined psychological disorder which licensed therapists are trained to identify and treat; and this is their speciality, that is, no friend has the same expansive understanding or experience of a therapist; AND frankly there are probably few friends who want to dedicate an hour a week to listening to you vent.
Well there may be some truth to this, but two additions
1. This therapist friend gives good advice. How many friends do you have that have given you horrible advice...even with the best intentions.
2. The people who need to pay for this high priced friend may be having problems getting the free friends. That may be the whole problem in itself. So sometimes you just need someone to talk to, and if you have problems to the extend that some people do, you really do have to pay for someone to listen to you.
Besides if it works, who cares what it costs or what you call it.
Some people just need help coming up with the solution. then they will put into effect. .Some people knew the solution all along, they just wanted to bounce it off their therapist friend to make sure it was right and get a nod of approval before they jumped off the deep end.
yes
But they are trained to help you... but real friends would have more motive. =/
It's tougher when one is adept at manipulating what should be a clinically detached, professional atmosphere. Most of my therapists became my personal case studies into how flawed the state of so-called mental illness treatments were applied, and how easily these alleged professionals could be put into a tailspin through their own training and personal biases.
There were only two exceptions. One became a personal friend. The other was my favorite psych professor.
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Answer:
Not exactly. Therapists are worse. Ask yourself: Why would a
person want to get paid for giving people advice? Either:
1. They are too lazy to get a real job (this is the most benign possibility).
2. They are so egotistical that they want people to pay them for their advice.
3. They have a political agenda in giving people particular advice.
4. They are ultra-egotistical sociopaths that want to give their advice
authority, under the claim that they have 'expert knowledge' that only they
and other therapists can have.
Therefore, a therapist is more likely than a randomly-selected individual
to be a distrustworthy psychopath. Psychopathic therapists desire to
suppress those facts. There are some good therapists, but even they
are a waste of money.
Besides, people don't even require friends for emotional well-being.
All a person needs to do is exercise every day, keep one's mind clear
of random thoughts, focus on and control one's emotions, and get a
psychiatric prescription in the case of severe congenital conditions.
In some ways I agree
but therapists can also offer a non-biased view from someone who isn't as afraid of hurting your feelings as a friend might be.
but you're right at the same, for a person to truly change, he/she has to want to- for many though, therapy is a tool to get to that change, not the only means; but a part of it.
They kind of are like freinds. Its like you are paying someone to sit there and listen to your problems. I guess they can help in some situations tho..they may help you look at things in a different light.
definetly therapists are more experianced, less caring, high priced friends
Good question. I'm beginning to think that they are. Although they're supposed to help by offering solutions to your problems. Also for extra reassurance, and to listen.
Yes, and it is sad that no one has time to make long term friends,
Therapists can prescribe medication, be in contact with your physician, keep things private... You may be paying alot, but you don't need to worry about all your problems be amplifyed. Also, the fact that it isn't a friend means that you can unload ANYTHING and it would make you feel tons better afterward.
They won't judge you.
Pretty much. I've tried a few different therapists over the years, and I have a degree in Psychology, and I don't find that it helps much. After suffering from depression for years, I found that meditation/yoga works best for me.
OMG this is why i want to become a therapist!!
Because it is true that they charge just to ask stupid questions.
Getting paid $100 an hour just to have a stupid conversation like:
Therapist: How are you feeling?
Patient: Fine
Therapist: How does that make you feel?
Patient: Sad
Therapist: Blah Blah
...Blah Blah
...3 hours of blah go on...
Patient: So that's how i became depressed
Therapist: *yawn* that will be all for today.
lol maybe i went a lil overboard...hehe
therapist are not your friends. you dont pay friends to see you through your troubled childhood. they do help, b/c they are not your friends they can see you with out lying to you.
Therapist's are trained professionals. They have gone to school and studied all kinds of things that make them better able to help others. Yes, they are like a friend if you develop that rapport with them. Surely you would hope for that. They can give you advice on how best to handle things and perhaps see things differently than you have in the past. Maybe they can point things out to you that you've been blind to in the past. Not all people are on the up and up but if you really need to talk about something that you can't share with a family member then , why not?
pretty much,, you can find the same thing online for free
For a lot of problems, mental illnesses, therapy works. There are a lot of variations and types of therapy, and one problem is that a lot of "therapists" aren't matching your problem to the evidence based treatment. Often, then, a therapist may be less useful than a friend, because of the level of professional trust you give them. On the other hand, a good therapist, that understands treatment modalities, can deliver them correctly, and knows how to match them with your specific problem, is much more than a friend - and often more effective than a pill.
Therapists can be friendly but not friends. They use their training and experience working with clients to help the client see what is keeping them from finding a solution—a blind spot from the client's past experiences perhaps. Therapists must not cross the boundary of getting personally involved with a client..
Your problems may seem very personal but in fact they probably fit neatly into a well defined psychological disorder which licensed therapists are trained to identify and treat; and this is their speciality, that is, no friend has the same expansive understanding or experience of a therapist; AND frankly there are probably few friends who want to dedicate an hour a week to listening to you vent.
Well there may be some truth to this, but two additions
1. This therapist friend gives good advice. How many friends do you have that have given you horrible advice...even with the best intentions.
2. The people who need to pay for this high priced friend may be having problems getting the free friends. That may be the whole problem in itself. So sometimes you just need someone to talk to, and if you have problems to the extend that some people do, you really do have to pay for someone to listen to you.
Besides if it works, who cares what it costs or what you call it.
Some people just need help coming up with the solution. then they will put into effect. .Some people knew the solution all along, they just wanted to bounce it off their therapist friend to make sure it was right and get a nod of approval before they jumped off the deep end.
yes
But they are trained to help you... but real friends would have more motive. =/
It's tougher when one is adept at manipulating what should be a clinically detached, professional atmosphere. Most of my therapists became my personal case studies into how flawed the state of so-called mental illness treatments were applied, and how easily these alleged professionals could be put into a tailspin through their own training and personal biases.
There were only two exceptions. One became a personal friend. The other was my favorite psych professor.
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