Have you and your mental health professional reached your goal?

The point where they say we can continue your sessions but you now have all the tools necessary to live a productive life. I get the feeling that a lot of them don't ever tell patients that.

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lakergoy · 36-40, M

Mental health professional,hahahahahaha! For me that's almost as hilarious as the imagine being sober under my caption window now!!!!😂😂😂😂
Dont get me wrong for people in genuine confusion or pain i can see the need for pyschs, but for most of us( who arent clinically insane) its only going to do a certain amount of good. The mental health person is not going to be able to perform your actions for you. Give you some insight perhaps

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Paliglass · 41-45, F

@lakergoy the talking helps people choose.

lakergoy · 36-40, M

Thats true. I've just seen so many in my life that won't/aren't going to change... Myself included. Fortunately im not on the powder/pills express but once somebody gets on that ride, you cant pull them off. They have to jump

Paliglass · 41-45, F

@lakergoy yes. They like people on meds alot of doctors. I had a brilliant doctor who didn't like meds and liked alot of therapy - which is much better in the long run I feel.

Miram · 31-35, F

What we know about the brain and how to treat mental illnesses isn't enough to cure them. But coping is possible and mental states change with more radical events that lead to realizations. Each case is different no matter how relentlessly they try to group them all under a label. And just to determine how those differences impact on the method of treatment can take years of experimentations. No wonder lot of patients need life long support.

The belief that mental illnesses are at best to be coped with doesn't encourage research that seeks to find actual fixes neither.

It is very complicated issue...but I personally did make progress with cognitive therapy and I don't see a therapist anymore. If I relapse, I will have to go through it all over again.

lakergoy · 36-40, M

@Miram well im glad you were helped... That part at the beginning of your post is good to have out in the open

Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M

@Miram So was your therapist for, against, indifferent?

Miram · 31-35, F

@lakergoy Thank you.

@Jackaloftheazuresand If he was against and I left that would be the kiss of death to my career. He was very much for.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

I can only answer in my opinion but the mental health business is more about money than coping. I think it's rare that a professional ever says that. There's good mental health professionals and bad. Mental health field is interesting but it's only as good as the people (like with everything else.) It's also an ever growing field and while I'm sure some good people out there continually advance their knowledge, I'm doubtful that many do. That field is where you have to consistently advance with new findings because we're still finding out about the human brain.

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

Shouldn't take more than three sessions for your therapist to have some idea of how best to help and in what sort of timescale to complete the work.

Of course. If you are resistant to what your therapist is advising and reject 'the work' you need to do, that can prolong things.

And the age old argument about whether it suits a doctor to 'cure' you or continue to 'treat the illness rather than cure it', as is often said about Cancer care and other problems, because there's money to be made continuously, is always in the background.

Paliglass · 41-45, F

No. Usually (I've had a few different therapies) I decided I've had enough now, resolved whatever I need to resolve, recovered from that trauma as much as possible, changed my thought pattern - whatever it is and then stop going. Usually they agree. I had one therapist who left a recommendation that I have art therapy if I returned to therapy, which I did, and I had art therapy.