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Originally Posted by DarknessIsMyFriend
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.
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You're right, it's hard to get help. Though there are other options, maybe looking to churches for counseling, or maybe some other organizations. But with trauma being so different with each person it would be hard to put a limit on when you will start feeling better and that depends a lot on the person also. Some people resist feeling better. There has to be a commitment from people to work to feel better, a therapist can't do it all their own and they are not suppose to from what I understand. They help us find tools and ways to modify our behavior but if we don't use the tools or try to do what they say.....well ...that falls back on the client. Maybe inpatient would be better for those people. Because I feel that some are committed to feeling better but they are not mentally in a place to do so from outpatient treatments.