There is nothing wrong with me. I do not need therapy.
Yes there is and yes you do.
Everything that you feel is overwhelming and intense. You can't stop thinking about it. You feel disconnected. Your relationships are stressed. You have reoccurring headaches and other random bodily function meltdowns. Loved ones have told you that they’re concerned about you.
People need therapy. Lots and lots of it. People need long drawn out conversations about what's going on in their minds. Your thoughts are damaging the universe right now. This awful "poor me", "it's not my fault", blame-that-person-over-there-thinking is destroying our world. I am telling Al Gore, Jesus Christ and your Mother on you, unless you are a mother causing those bad demons to seep into the world. Then I am going directly to Jesus. You better hope for reincarnation because your karma needs a second chance at salvation.
Why will you not go to therapy? Why? I know why.
The word "therapy" makes you want to kill yourself (don’t do that, direct path to Hell).
"Therapy" is a bad word word. People do not like it.
Sorry to all you working therapists out there but it's true. People don’t like "therapy".
Most people do not like you because you are a therapist (do-gooder, know-it-all). If people did like therapists you would have paid off your student loans by now. C’mon, therapy is nothing more than repeating the same theories and the same whatnots to fresh faces who are seekers of new excuses.
Therapy needs a new name. Maybe Brain Scrub, Thought Detox, Chakra Cleanse or The-brain-is-body-part-too-dummy-give-it-some-damn-attention-a-hole.
I had a conversation today with a gentleman about a future film project. I asked him how he deals with breaking through the therapy aspect part of his work with clients to get to the real stuff, the future building. His response, “People are not broken, I do not do therapy. This is what I teach people about themselves.” I quickly retort back, “Did you read my article on “Excuse-er?”
I do not know if I agreed with him or not but I sure did like hearing it.
“You are not broken”. People need to hear that more often. I find that most people will not go to therapy for the simple reason of not wanting to feel like they're broken.
The mind is a two pound muscle that needs to be treated like any other muscle in your body.
Take it our for a walk, let it breathe in some fresh air, do some light stretching, let out the lizard/monkey parts of your brain and have some fun, quit letting the neocortex layer take away the fun. Give your brain an evolutionary spring cleaning every once in awhile.
We will go to the doctor for the slightest pain in our body. Takes pills, go to rehab, have stuff injected into our skin, have stuff sucked out by the gob-fulls, but having a conversation about what's going on in our brain….no, nadda, not gonna happen. I am not telling that stranger about my problems.
Socrates ~ “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Maybe so but is that therapy? Get a brain coach, walk in the woods, write in your journal, have truthful conversations with anyone and everyone.
In the end facing ones own demons may be the answer. Taking the time to examine the hows, whats and whys of your life. Discovering the rights and wrongs that you have done and that may have been done to you.
No matter what you may feel about therapy, I do not think you are broken either.
