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To: Twotone
Real therapy should make people more capable of dealing with reality, not less.

Therapy should be for "big" things not every day stuff that you should be able to handle on your own.

A loss of a child, you might benefit from therapy. Someone cancels dinner, just calm down and get a life.

And years of therapy means that you are being scammed. The therapist should have taught you how to use certain emotional tools to deal with things not spend an hour a week listening to you yap.

Allow me to pass on some wisdom to the lady in the first part of the article. Build a bridge and get over it.

41 posted on 05/22/2026 8:03:23 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (The tree accused of killed Sonny Bono was planted.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Throughout my life I would get a period of a week or so where I had uncomfortable anxiety. Sometimes a specific situation, sometimes not. I have a list of things to do to get me through it and they work. Three years ago I had a bout running into a month. Nothing specific. None of my methods worked. Talked to my MD and she put me on some low dose meds. Talked with a therapist for 6 months and we stopped because I was through it. MD cut my already low dose in half and, after big trip in early June I intend to stop them.


51 posted on 05/22/2026 9:13:21 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (Annie Savoy : The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self awareness. )
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