Posted by Willful on August 4, 2013, at 11:02:41
In reply to Re: do you think of therapy as having a goal?, posted by baseball55 on August 3, 2013, at 20:46:26
Therapy has a goal, but the more diffuse it is-- like becoming less anxious or less depressed, the harder it is to identify a method, or even a concrete way of working toward that-- unless you're in CBT or DBT or something. But in terms of talk therapy, it seems that there's some sort of vague sense that if you talk about things, they get better.
But beyond feeling better to be talking about them--which seems to be an intermediate step toward changing them-- or becoming more aware of things you do, so you can sometimes stop yourself from doing them- (or not)-- the finding of goals seems to be hampered by this lack of any clear method. Even if you say-- which is questionable-- that you understand why you do things-- or, less questionable, have a clearer awareness of what you do that's problematic-- the looming issue always seems to be-- how to not-need to do them.
The question of how to stop needing something seems to be as unanswerable as the question of how to fall asleep when you're wide awake and know you need to get to sleep in order to function the next day. There is no answer-- the best you can do is keep trying, as you also try to find a way of mitigating the terrible sense of hopelessness that creeps in when the condition persists.
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