How does therapy work? | BBC Ideas

From depression to anxiety, talking therapy can help with a range of issues, boosting your mental health. But how does it work? And what happens when you go and talk to a therapist?

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[_aidid]

Psychotherapy is effective enough to bring postive changes, but it is also quite expensive to get for many of us in the least-developed countries

[cantproducemyownnick]

The end quote is frankly terrifying. Fixing the thing over and over for the rest of your life means there's no fix.

[ayaelbarazi]

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[liam.]

I hate therapy so much, everytime it made me worse and the therapist pulled away from me, people don't seem to talk about the bad side of therapy or the negative effects but they should do.

[gertrudelaronge]

Thank you.
I needed to hear this.
I appreciate the help.

[Ihatehuman]

It’s interesting to see how ppl diminish the importance of psychological help for those who need it and give irrelevant advice about “be strong” “be adult” “get act together”, “talk to mom” etc.

It seems that there should be more information about the process itself, mental states that ppl can experience.
It’s big work that a person does with their personality, while changing their brains. Which is extremely hard from the biological point of view.
Hugs to Everyone who’s in therapy 🤗 it’ll help.

[MeganDuncan-hrlt]

I've had experience with better health thank you so much

[PriteshPatel-pe]

go snowboarding or skiing, its a game changer!

[TheOrignialMrGrizz]

I basically have therapy but it’s in school talking about my mum doing drugs but one time I was traumatised thinking I made a murder happen so I went to actual therapy and talking about it but I still felt scared after that

[yogawhere]

Someone to show me where there is so I can make there be here, I literally try to get somewhere and never can because it's like I'm trapped here, and there is somewhere that isn't even possible because it also requires so many people to lose their symptoms and crisis especially too

[Lucas_]

Bruh therapy is just paying someone to talk to you. They don’t even do much they just exist as someone you can talk to. They are essentially professional listeners.

[bastyytsab]

my feeling is being scared because of death

[parneetkaur]

I took therapy and I think she didn't cared about feelings or mental health but more about money.

[daisy]

What's this got to do with relationships?
I hardly think people recover after only 6 sessions...

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[Jon-irgp]

Sounds like a " FRIEND YOU PAY"😂

[josefhlusi]

I have realy strong anxienty bcs i find out Melanie Martines.
How can i be fine?

[skylerjohnson]

Of course talking about your problems feels good, it’s called venting and it’s just a coping mechanism. It is a band aid really

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[aluette]

this animation of people without arms and legs is very disturbing