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Originally Posted by justafriend306
In my own experience, therapy was about the giving of and learning of tools and resources to cope with the difficulties (I am bipolar). In both cases a plan of action was drawn up before therapy actually took place. We set targets, discussed how we would reach them, what attaining them would look like, and a suitable time frame to work within.
My illness certainly hasn't gone away. I still am ruled by anxiety and fear but at least I can function through most situations. So yes, therapy improved my condition.
At the end of the day however, I have indeed learned to mask my difficulties.
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I understand that - its how most counseling is conducted and the overall feeling of any "successful" therapy. I just have to wonder if "therapy" is really a kind of "programming" for lack of better terminology - to get everyone to think N act basically the same, like you would expect drones to do .. unless they were "malfunctioning" in their "circuitry"..
Like I said though - just random thinking last night.