[stopdog]

Do you recommend therapy to others?

[Cinnamon_Stick]

Yes because it has helped me but I would say to be cautious. Therapy can be wonderful or damaging. Is not for the faint of heart. It takes a really strong person to do it.

[atisketatasket]

Other - because everyone I have recommended therapy to was a student, and it was expected of me to do so as part of my job if I ran into students in crisis or having difficulties.

Were I to recommend it to someone I knew personally, it would include caveats but basically I would suggest it was worth a shot if nothing else was working.

No. LOL. I wouldn't wish therapy on anyone.

[unaluna]

Yes because I don't want to listen to them anymore. Then they finally get to the point and say they have it figured out blah blah blah and I'm left thinking then was that supposed to entertain me? Because it kinda didn't.

Yes because it has helped me, and other well, because.

[annielovesbacon]

I don't generally talk about my therapy in front of other people, but if someone talking to me is having a hard time I suggest it because it's helped me.

[stopdog]

I never tell others in real life that I see therapists. Only two people even know I see them.

[atisketatasket]

Originally Posted by unaluna

Yes because I don't want to listen to them anymore. Then they finally get to the point and say they have it figured out blah blah blah and I'm left thinking then was that supposed to entertain me? Because it kinda didn't.

I really wanted to pick that option, but I couldn't and still be an honest pollee.

it depends what for if it is something i think therapy could help then yeah

Other: No, because I do not intrude on other people's personal lives in that way - I can only think of one person it wouldn't feel wholly inappropriate to say something that personal to, and he is the one who suggested therapy to me. I also don't tell people that I'm in therapy because it is nobody else's business but my own and my therapist's. If it were an acceptable topic of conversation, perhaps I might recommend it because it has been helpful to me, but it has also been very unhelpful indeed for me and for others, so perhaps I wouldn't.

I am not saying that people who make different choices and/or live in different cultures from me are intrusive or inappropriate. The above is what is true for me and in the culture I grew up in.

[ScarletPimpernel]

No because it's none of my business how people work through their issues. If I was directly asked about it, I would recommend it.

[unaluna]

Originally Posted by atisketatasket

I really wanted to pick that option, but I couldn't and still be an honest pollee.

I can see me saying all disingenuous-like, "gee you'd have to go to therapy to fix that!" It either opens up a conversation about prior therapy experiences and then I've made a new friend, or it goes the other way. Ya learn to think fast on the bus!

[stopdog]

One of my parents strongly wanted me to become a therapist.
To this day, I don't fully understand why.

[Argonautomobile]

I do recommend it. It's obnoxious. I really should stop.

[velcro003]

I put other- only my close friends know I see a T, and they all have their life more together than me.