Why Is Therapy So Hard
It just doesnt work for me.
Why is therapy so hard. Sometimes there are tears. Why is therapy so hard discussion i can barely speak in therapy. When you come to therapy often times those defenses are no longer working effectively for you. The first time i pulled my car up to a therapist s office i had no idea what the experience would be like.
There s comfort and support. 2 a lot of reasons why we go to therapy are embarrassing also things we don t like to admit to ourselves or others. However living with the problem may be more difficult that learning how to cope or working toward healing. And yet there s laughter too.
Well there are some things we ve learned through family therapy throughout the years. You may feel like you don t know your kid anymore or there is so much tension you don t know how to go about fixing it. Real change and psychotherapy can be hard emotional long and sometimes expensive. There are good reasons for this.
Even then i feel like i won t be happy either way i ll. There s pain and confusion. The only images i had were from good will hunting and equus both great movies but ones that don t accurately portray therapy i was skeptical worried it would be a waste of time and money. We as humans are hard wired to build up defenses essentially ways of protecting ourselves from potential harms way.
Therapy the 3 reasons why psychotherapy fails. This blog will address some of the big reasons why being in therapy is difficult. The adolescent years have a reputation for being stressful on parents. If therapy is hard then you are addressing the problems and taking an honest look at yourself and how you behave or react to situations or problems that are painful or disruptive.
I have extreme anxiety and trust issues from past stuff and it makes it super hard to talk to people especially adults but i have no other choice than therapy to hopefully transition. When psychotherapy fails it s hard to know whether it failed because the intervention was ineffective or because of multiple other client. There are stuck places and it can take time to change. Therapy is a sacred space almost unlike any other.
A low self esteem anger jealousy guilt shame trauma etc. So in the final analysis the answer is probably yes therapy can be hard.