Posted by Tamar on May 6, 2005, at 3:37:31
In reply to Does therapy feel like indulgence to any of you?, posted by pinkeye on May 5, 2005, at 17:08:54
> I always feel like therapy is like self indulgence.. I mean, like there are people with much worse problems in life, and they are just fine. I am relatively much better off than most people, and if I am just going and talking about myself and paying for it to someone and doing all this regressing to childhood etc, it feels like way too much of indulgence. And it feels really guilty sometime.
Well, different people deal with things in different ways. Some people appear to deal with terrible traumas without any need for therapy. Other people seem to need therapy for things that others would never consider a crisis. It’s easy to look at other people’s lives and compare ourselves negatively. But we never really know what’s going on in a person’s mind. People who seem to cope with problems at the time might need therapy years later. People who seek therapy for so-called ‘minor problems’ might have other major (and possibly hidden) problems to deal with.
> Any of you guys feel that way?
> I sometimes console myself that I will somehow kind of compensate for all this indulgence later in some way - by kind of helping others or in some way helping other people and pull them out and help them lead a good life. But I am wondering if I will ever do that any time.You are already doing it! Your wise and thoughtful contributions here at Babble are an obvious example. I know you’ve said some things in posts to me that have really helped a lot, and I’m sure lots of other babblers would agree.
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