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Do you or have you ever seen a therapist /lit/? Was it a valuable experience?

>> No.11257308

>>11257300
complete waste of my fucking time, i am insane as shit and these niggers were like 'write down your emotions', yeah Im sure writing down that I think God is sending me messages through dead birds is going to fix it you fucking fraud

>> No.11257317

>>11257308
Gathering information is necessary before you can be sure what the problem is.

>> No.11257331

yes
no

>> No.11257334

>>11257300
It's called confession. A priest has more education than any therapist.

>> No.11257358

>>11257331

What was it like? Why were you dissatisfied?

>>11257334

Isn't a priest just going to tell you a bunch of shit about God?

>> No.11257470

I have a support worker who makes sure I don't end up dead in an alleyway or something.
They're not very qualified but it's nice to get some human contact.

>> No.11257491

>>11257470

Have you ever tried or considered trying to see a psychologist or someone with a higher qualification than a social worker?

>> No.11257511

Absolutely useless. Though in saying that they did frustrate me enough to stop going and solve my problems myself.

>> No.11257512

I went to a lacanian analyst for 6 years and I'm extremely grateful for it. I've been through a bunch of different phases with it, love, hate, pauses and moments of more sessions. It's expensive, sometimes very hard, sometimes it aids you instantaneously, but it's something that I think I'll take for life, something I know will be useful to me 40 years from now for challenges I can't even say yet.

I don't come in /lit/ often, sometimes I see a thread about Lacan of Freud here and think they are awful lol.
ama I guess

>> No.11257525

>>11257512
what did you get for your bar mitzvah

>> No.11257526

>>11257512

I actually just posted lacan to make it more contextually /lit/, though I was a little interested in people who might have tried psychoanalysis. Did you try and other kinds of therapy before going to a lacanian? What did you go for in the first place and how did the therapist address it?

>> No.11257530

>>11257512
B8

>> No.11257533

>>11257530

Why b8?

>> No.11257534

>>11257512
how has it helped you
what have you learned from it
do you have experience with talk therapy as well
i've been considering other therapy options because i don't see myself gaining anything substantial from the therapy i'm in but perhaps that's just failing on my part.

>> No.11257569

>>11257334
Lol that is not what confession is for. State your sins, act of contrition, receive absolution, leave. The last thing a priest and especially the other people in line want is you talking about mental problems.

>> No.11257578

>>11257300
yes I have, no it was not

>> No.11257580

>>11257358
We talked about my thoughts and problems i encountered irl. It was nice to have a conversation like that and it always cleared my head a bit. But the moment i left everything came back and it never had a lasting impact.

>> No.11257584

Yes and yes.

>> No.11257606

I went to a psychologist once in a bout of depression and she accurately identified my specific physical issues within the session, which was helpful.

>> No.11257667

>>11257526
I went to a jungian psychanalyst when I was a kid-teen and I liked her a lot, but it was a totally different thing. I have a close aunt who was going to an analyst for some time and she was doing great so I asked for recommendations (I live in another town). Only later I found out she was lacanian and I sticked to it.

I was depressed, but I didn't know at that time, anyway, complaining about work and people, etc.

>>11257534
It has helped me in dealing with what I don't know or can't know, with better seeing responsibilities between people (what is there for me to do, what is someone else's responsibility, what is shared, etc). It's very hard to say because it's very vague, because it's a mash of several small situations and emotional scenarios. Language itself begins to really feel like a tool, like something which open doors and is dynamic. It's not a therapy in the sense of being comfortable with it. Most of it is in silences and cutting short on nonsense we narrate to ourselves. Quite often you leave with a sensation of failure attempt, but then you see it what was hindering you. It can be really long, things repeat themselves as much as they have to.

In the early stages, I talked face to face. I know it really depends on each analyst/analysand relationship and situation, but it took me more than a year to lie down on the couch to talk. I was bothered by it at first, but then you see things really do move better that way. My opinion, anyway and also understanding that each moment calls for a way.

>i don't see myself gaining anything substantial from the therapy i'm in but perhaps that's just failing on my part.
I don't know, but I assume it's not really a failing on your part if not for a fail for you to talk about that to the therapist. I mean, you could, by doing that, either move therapy to something more effective, or learn to be patient and see that it's not time to expect results, or perhaps really be dissapointed enough to drop that therapist and seek some other thing.

>> No.11257781

>>11257667
this is helpful, thanks.
i have to leave my talk therapist for the summer anyways (undergrad going home) and so i was considering alternate forms of therapy (like psychoanalysis). will likely proceed with it now.

>> No.11257795

>>11257300
yes
yes

>> No.11257824

>>11257795
in detail :
it was psychoanalysm

I did'nt understand what it was about at first. Eventually reading about Freud, and having my first catharsis I got it. it was very helpful.

>> No.11257975

>>11257300
I got forced to see a kike shrink and he put me on SSRIs

>> No.11257978

>>11257300
yes. not really a valuable experience. We just went to Dunkin Donuts and talked for an hour. That was it.