Understanding therapy and how it works.

Therapy offers you a safe, confidential place to talk about your life and anything that may be confusing, painful or uncomfortable. It allows you to talk with someone who is trained to listen attentively and to help you improve things. People with mental health situation often find therapy very useful. The length and the type of therapy depend on the mental situation of the patient.

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Therapy can help people become stronger, face their challenges, heal the pains from past, cope with symptoms, build their relationship skills and gain self-confidence. There are many different types of therapy including cognitive behavior therapy, family therapy, interpersonal therapy, art therapy, psychodynamic therapy and a really important one, psychoeducation.

Sometimes, people get to choose the type of therapy that they would like to go through and other times; the therapists will suggest or assign a therapy to the depending on their mental illness. Some therapists also incorporate few different approaches in one to treat a specific patient.

Therapy is a hard work. There is nothing the therapist can do or say that will re organize all the things in a person’s brain immediately making his or her life better. A person needs to be able to adopt to the new coping mechanisms and get hold of his or her emotions.

Although many people believe that everyone can be benefitted from a therapy, but many professionals believe that those with no motivation to bring change in life are usually not benefitted with a therapy.

According to Psychotherapist Jeffery Sumber,

“It is my experience that unless a person is truly open and ready to do their own work, then therapy can actually create a negative experience for the person so that when they might be truly ready to make a change, their experience with therapy was less than enjoyable.”

To a depressed person, therapy is mostly a treatment of last resort. They might delay it for months and years and give in only when their symptoms become terrible. They consider therapy a cure that they try only when their life becomes hard because of their illness. Mental illness is just like any other health condition, though. Whether, its difficulty coping with stress or something more serious, the first treatment doesn't always work. As, therapy is the last option for many people, they get highly disappointed when it doesn’t work for them. If therapy has failed you, you still have plenty of options for feeling better.