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@simonapop
Sooo many misconceptions about and aversions to therapy. How to improve this?
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Jarrad Hope
@jarradhope
what misconceptions and aversions are you experiencing?
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@simonapop
I mean, so many - as highlighted by others in the thread too: a narrow perception of what it is, a reticence to engage because one perceives themselves as “normal” and if they go to therapy that makes them not so much, weakness, a waste of money, something you do when you “lose it” etc etc
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Jarrad Hope
@jarradhope
Waiting until you 'lose it' is weird, that's like saying you should eat right and exercise only when you get morbidly obese. You can be fit and healthy, get stronger by lifting - and be in your prime by exercising today and regularly. That's just a good habit, why wouldn't that apply to our minds?
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@simonapop
Yes, but how many people turn a blind eye to their own suffering- physical or psychological? Some even draw their whole identity from it. Who would they be without the problems, their issues, their dramas. Becoming aware of oneself and ones actions and if you are able to (socio economically) move to improve is 🔑
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Jarrad Hope
@jarradhope
definitely, I guess you can't help people who don't want to be helped. I try to plant seeds. I know a therapist who, after years of working with someone, they had to tell them they couldnt help them anymore because they refused to take any action or risk thinking differently. Imagine being dumped by your therapist 😅
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@simonapop
Perhaps this answers my original question: the aversion comes from a potential lack of awareness and clashing with something that might ask you to stop dulling your own perception of self and the world around you
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