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Originally Posted by Favorite Jeans
What are you looking for?
Like if I try to break down what therapy offers me and how else I might get it:
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Obviously one therapy hour per week doesn’t magically take care of all these things but it does help with a surprising amount of it. So for me, it feels efficient. But I definitely think you could get many of the benefits of therapy in other ways.
Also no one thing is for everyone. Not Brussels sprouts, not parenthood, not the new Spider-Man movie, not college, not therapy… not even chocolate. People are different.
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Thanks, some of this was so much illuminating. Helped me again see how deep therapy isn't what I'm looking for. (It would not make me feel connection or feel better. I can now have connection to some people anyways in my life.)
For me, what I am looking for currently that I can't always/enough effectively do on my own or with tools/support I have available:
- Want someone/some people to
regularly talk to about relationships. In the ways that I can talk about it. Not going too deep with it. Tbh
part of it would be about help relax me too about them, rather than go too deep lol.
- Let me sometimes (well, maybe regularly) do
"emotion vomit" for a couple of minutes.
Even if anger is present in the mix of emotions. About very confidential topics, yes.
Any suggestions or thoughts on these two needs?
PS. Bonus: You mention it too and I've read it elsewhere too that a big benefit of therapy is helping decrease chronic stress. Well damn, that would be great too. But that's something I'm dealing with, but again, some way of fulfilment of the above two needs would really help with that too.