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Originally Posted by 3rdTimesTheCharm
Researchers have done randomized controlled experiments where they assign research subjects to either therapy or "waiting list for therapy" (placebo condition). People in therapy do better on average than in the placebo group. Of course, this statistical significance or scientific average doesn't mean that everyone improves with therapy or that some people in the placebo condition didn't also get better.
For myself and the people I know in therapy, it helps for reasons beyond placebo (I've tried waiting and seeing, it doesn't work for me) or faith. But it's definitely not a panacea for everything that's wrong with everyone. Perhaps you need to move towards accepting that therapy just isn't your thing. You've said repeatedly that you've made no progress and that it causes you to physically harm yourself, and you've also said that you're not open to trying to do therapy differently than what you've been doing. You might be one of the people for whom
therapy just isn't going to help.
Anne
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I have been trying to do it differently - to let the therapist do its thing and just go along without
trying to see the pattern or framework and then I get told the therapist has no idea why it is asking me the questions it does. I do not want to fail at this, but somebody needs to have a plan, if I don't know what to do and the therapist does not know what to do, then perhaps books or a consult will help.