What do you want from pc responses?

When you post to pc, what are you seeking? Advice? Support? Seeing how therapy works for others? Thought I’d write a poll.

Either advice or support. Although sometimes, I get a post or two of similar experiences there are horrible and it sends me into a mental anxiety panic.... so I try not to make actual threads here much anymore

I never want advice. I do like reading about how others do therapy since it is usually so very different than how I see it or do it. Sometimes general support but usually just wanting to see how/why others do what they do. Sometimes I post so that those who do not do it the way many seem to can see that it can be okay to go to one's own drummer and that dire predictions about what that could lead to are not necessarily the case and that therapy failure is not always (or in my opinion even usually) the fault of the client.

Advice, support, and a "mirror" for red flags -- I am always double, triple, quadruple checking for that after my experience with exT

I don’t start threads but if I did, I would just include in the post what type of response I am looking for this way I am not wasting anyone’s time.

I dont know actually. Sometimes its support, sometimes imwant to be 'seen' and reassured that i am still alive and of value i suppose.

I don't want advice. I never want advice. I mainly want support or a space to post things for posterity. I like to revisit things to understand my thought patterns and hopefully learn from things in retrospect. I also do use PC as a normalization measure. How out of whack are my experiences with the "norm"? Granted, I'd say that people who post regularly here make up a small subset of people engaged in psychotherapy or are interested in their mental health. Though a small niche, it's one that I feel I fit into.

I think you need an all of the above. It depends on what I am writing about on what I want.

Sometimes I just want a place to put stuff out there so I don't have to keep on holding it inside because sitting with it is too hard.

I forgot that option - wanting a place to process/document therapy. I’m sure I missed a few

Sometimes I just want support or to know if I'm within the norm. Sometimes though I do find it very helpful to get advice from various different perspectives. I'm likely to do whatever I want anyway (don't most people) but it is interesting and helpful to get different ideas.

Mostly curious about how other people do/relate to/experience therapy. Sometimes looking to hear about others' experiences as a way of illuminating my own. Generally not keen on advice per se, unless it's grounded in directly relevant personal experience, and even then only if actually asked for.

I would pick:

Support.Advice. Understanding how others do therapy and Seeing if my situation is within the norm.

(You can pick more than one in this poll)

Never advice and never unsolicited judgement (which I've received a couple of times). If it's a thread, probably support, and if it's IST or Dear T, probably just to process my feelings, get them out of my head or to share them with real people (I find the hugs comforting somehow).

Support and acceptance.

I post because I actually enjoy therapy and enjoy talking about it.
I don't want /need hugs. Just general therapy chat.
Plus to show, not all therapist are money grabbing monsters.

Mainly I'm looking for support, and a place to process and document.

What I don’t want—here or anywhere else—are diagnoses, analyzing, rebukes or instructions. That’s why my responses discuss my specific experiences. I try to avoid direct advice giving.

Interesting question. I look at pc like a reverse wheres waldo? - what's missing? Where is the love missing, where is the communication missing, where is the patience missing that would make this life alright? Because thats how my life was / is. But if you look at my life i.e., my apartment, you would see so much STUFF, you might never be able to discern what is actually missing. Except that its probably something obvious. You would walk in and say, "...?"

I mainly post to vent and to get support. sometimes I seek advice but usually I know the proper things to do.. just choose not to (yet)

I don't have anywhere to vent about my mental illness and therapy struggles besides with t and here

I can't participate in the poll bc I'm on Tapatalk

I know sometimes I go off the handle and post crazy stuff. it's mostly me forcing it out of the obsessive cycles in my mind

I also find the reassurances from others helpful in regards to my distorted thoughts and feelings about my therapy and my therapist.

"Understanding how others do therapy" and "Seeing if my situation is within the norm" describe it perfectly for me. I never really posted threads about my own therapy much and prefer to tell it in response to others, as it relates to others' experiences. I think I also would not mind people telling me how I come across to them from my posts, if something I say sounds BS, defensive, off the mark, whatever. But "Understanding how others do therapy" is pretty much the main reason why I come here, and to share my experience and thoughts as a reflection. Also sometimes when I am feeling too hyper and just want a sort of dumping ground for what's on my mind - this I did in therapy/with therapists as well. As far as responses, I would welcome pretty much anything, but as I said I rarely post for responses here and usually I respond.

Support and advice mostly, and hugs. With old t I liked seeing if my situation was within the norm but with this t things seem to be okay so I haven't had to ask about that for a while.

Sometimes I need the support of the group to merely stay in the change-making process. There are a lot of reasons to quit therapy!

I sometimes post just to get my thoughts out there. Kind of a Dear Diary that talks back.

I mostly wish for support, and advice. but sometimes I just need to vent, and I am allowed here.

It really depends on my mood. When I started visiting PC it was because there were things I questioned about my relationship with T. Now it is sometimes to vent, get other's perspective, and to normalize my experience about not only therapy but life struggles with anonymity.