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Originally Posted by ShadowGX
I've had a mix of all of it said to me, most common being the first one. The problem with therapy is you have to buy into some things that don't quite make sense realistically and so when I point that out or otherwise defeat these thing I get told things like "you're too smart for your own good". I just don't get why it's so hard to come up with something believable. I've even pointed out how some techniques could be more realistic at times... It's frustrating and makes it hard to feel like I will ever get better when the thing that is supposed to help just makes me feel bad because I can't dumb myself down.
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I totally get that.
I've finally come to the point where I'm willing to do what's asked of me in therapy and in my DBT IOP, no matter how stupid it sounds, because the scientific literature on the subject shows that it helps people, so I put my faith in the process and the people with decades of experience, whether or not it seems stupid to me.
I take a zicam if I feel a cold coming on, knowing full well that it has no benefit vs a placebo in double blind trials, but also knowing that a placebo works even if you know it's a placebo.
It doesn't have to make sense that it works, as long as it works. And all these experts and all these studies say that it does. Trying to reason my way out of my mental illnesses clearly hasn't worked so far, so I'm going to try their way and actually try it in good faith (as much as I can... some of the mindfulness exercises are just too stupid to take seriously... I'm not going to thank my internal organs)