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Originally Posted by Trace14
I agree. But that's kind of the same with medical doctors. But it seems different with them, they are treating something we can feel or notice if we are feeling better. If what you are doing works that's great, keep doing it.
Some of us need that guidance though. So as long as it's affordable I will go. Once it comes between paying bills and therapy the therapy will be cut.
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Yeah I'm treating this school therapist as a "trial mode" for therapy to see if it's for me. I can keep seeing her for free so long as I remain a student which means I can see her for at least another two years. Two years is a long time so I figure that if therapy is all that it's cracked up to be than I should notice some kind of change by then. If not, then I am going to try to treat my problems on my own and save money, time, and headache in the process.
Hopefully one day, a better method to treat trauma survivors or other cases of mental illness is discovered because I think that for many people, the amount of time and money it takes to see a therapist for the amount of time it takes to begin to see results is a significant barrier to getting help. I think that this reason is also the biggest factor as to why we have so many mentally ill people drinking and doing drugs, considering suicide, or even becoming abusers themselves. After all, who could blame them?
At least this was the reason why I took so long to start trying to get help.