mazelotov replied to your post: anonymous asked:does therapy actu...
Therapy is only as good as you’re willing to make it. Like, for me, it took a while for therapy to be effective for me because I just shut myself off. It wasn’t until I finally let myself open up that it really helped, Anon!
True, it's definitely not going to do anything if you don't try at it!
But at the same time, like I wrote 25 pages or so of things I'd never told anyone and shared it with her and then we spent like several hours talking about it (or at least trying to since i'm so bad at expressing things beyond "yeah that sucked"), and while it did take a little bit of a weight off, it was hardly life-changing. And I mean this was like literally everything I could think of that I normally wouldn't want to tell anyone, to the point where we don't really have anything in my past to talk about anymore (idk a lot of things can be summed up for me with "yeah that sucked"). I think it's just different for everyone, and for me the combination of being very in-tune with my own emotions already and being entirely stunted at expressing them, therapy just isn't the most effective way of going about making actual cognitive changes in myself. Really it's main purpose for me is just practice in learning how to say words that mean things that i mean, lol, which in itself is valuable enough tbh.
