It’s 2021, We All Need Therapy
And no, please don’t judge your friends and family for taking help.
I started therapy in 2019. I went for a few sessions because I didn’t know what was wrong and why was I low all the time. My life was at an all-time high then. I was happy, I was surrounded by the best friends and family, and I had just completed one of my most successful work projects. Yet, all I did was break down and cry. I felt like crap and I couldn’t navigate my way out of my situation. So, I decided to give therapy a shot.
My therapist helped trace a way out, but what most people don’t realize is that therapy isn’t how you come out of situations.
Your therapist will only guide you through it. The actual job has to be done by you.
My therapist and I broke up soon because I thought she didn’t understand me and thought of my issues as too small.
2020 rocked my life’s foundation. And once again, I decided to take therapy. This time I was lonely. All I needed was someone to hear me out and I was guilty of constantly using my friends and family as an outlet. So I started seeing a therapist again.
This time, because I was living alone, I decided to actually practice the lessons and exercises my therapist told me.
And, I became so much aware of my life.
I’ve come to a point in life where I feel therapy is absolutely essential for everyone.
Better relationships.
It’s 2021, and we live in a world of messed up relationships. If you think that all your relationships are sorted, then congratulations but if you find it hard to connect with people and yourself, most of all, please consider therapy!
It helps in developing a better relationship with yourself, which is of prime importance. Please stop neglecting how and why you feel, what you feel just because you’re supposed to be okay for society.
Take help because you need it. This help will only improve your relationships with friends and family. Moreover, it helps you filter out some toxicities from society.
New coping mechanisms.
Humans are likely to cultivate certain habits from childhood and to use various methods for coping with challenges encountered even before the adolescent stage. Various methods one may develop in childhood or during the early stage of life, such as the use of drugs to help get enough sleep and a particular variety of food to help to cope with life’s stress can be modified with therapy.
While one may have a problem with a negative aspect of coping, visiting a therapist can assist one to analyze why certain strategies were adopted and to enquire if these really work or if they only worsen the feeling of stress at a later time. Thus, a therapist can be the best option to help scale through the difficult process of reversing hard-formed habits and to assist in building new productive ones.
Opportunity to experiment.
Therapists provide a variety of options to help individuals that are suitable for solving a particular challenge. The things that adults know are due to experimentation from childhood. Some people are rigid in making certain decisions and are less willing to experiments in order to avoid making mistakes.
With a therapist, it could be an opportunity where judgement-free decisions can be made and new things can be tried out in a less demanding situation. Individuals are safe to explore feelings and practice behaviors that prompt anxiety in daily life and discover new solutions to such challenges.
Insights into life.
Like I said before, life was just living and reliving the same day for most part of my life. Until a therapist helps you untangle the mixed wires.
Understanding the aim behind every thought and action is normal; even though hardship is experienced in the various challenges, this helps to give value and meaning to ongoing difficult situations and reduce the complexity of any challenge.
With therapeutic sessions, a thinking process can be facilitated, which then assists in discovering the lesson to be learned from a difficult situation and see prospects in overcoming challenges.
Explore.
Introspection of one’s thought and action is one method being adopted over time that is beneficial to emotional and physical health through reversing old thought patterns and behavior.
With engagement in therapeutics sessions, a variety of life momentum can be preserved in small ways. It can help function in tapping into the unconscious mind in daily life, by enriching and building self-esteem, self-confidence, relationships, assertiveness in anger, and help in setting daily routines and life goals.
Though there may be several spontaneous moments, it also has a tantalizing, slow-building progress for mind growth. Thus, therapy is like exercising: the more consistently an individual engages in it, the stronger one becomes. It’s like training a muscle in the body and brain for a greater task ahead.
It’s a Pandemic.
If the reasons above aren’t enough, we’re all experiencing some of the most stressful days of our life. I mean, everyday the news of something or the other going wrong in the world is getting to us. We’re living through a very tough time and we obviously need help navigating through it. So go, get the help you need!
While therapy can be expensive, it truly is instrumental for us to figure out our lives today. So if you have the luxury of going out there, and healing yourself, go ahead and do it!
