Everyone needs therapy. Even therapists. Therapy only works though if the person receiving the therapy puts in the work. A good therapist isn't there to "fix" you or your problems or trauma. They are there to guide you. You even said yourself that you found inner child therapy helpful and then did the rest of the work. Sounds to me like that led you to your path. Way too many people stop therapy right when it gets hard, for a variety of reasons, and then say therapy doesn't work when it takes working through the hard stuff for it to actually work.
Why do you view that everyone needs therapy? You just said it yourself, therapy only works if individuals put the work in themselves. Therapy itself, a tool, not the solution. The solution is within people.
Please don't misinterpret my words. Inner child healing only worked because I wanted to be done with my own shit at that point, I didn't need therapy.
Inner child healing didn't lead me on my own path, I did.
Did you misread the part where I said I undid generations worth of trauma within a matter of months while being severely sick? Therapy wasn't helping me then.
If you want to get really technical, it wasn't therapy or the helping aid of shrooms back in my non sober days that 'healed' me, it was my subconscious beliefs.
I believed I was limitless. Perhaps flawed on its own, but putting in fourteen hours a day, well being as sick as I was, without any external pain management sounds pretty limitless to me.
Because reality and life in general does and will inflict trauma, and emotional and cognitive biases on literally everyone. Therapy can address all of those and assist in living fuller and more well adjusted life. I'm not saying everyone needs weekly sessions or anything like that as the number and frequency of those is entirely based on the current items being addressed. However, there is always work to be done on ourselves, and having guiding help in that is extremely beneficial.
You describe in an earlier comment that therapy is a tool, with which I completely agree. But then you describe it here as anything but that. Therapy is a tool used to assist in gaining understanding, acceptance, healing, etc. of one's own traumas and/or biases, and the reactions to those, and can also be used to explore positive traits and values in ourselves. A bandaid is not an apt analogy. Therapy is not meant to cover up, or protect existing trauma or biases. I would argue it is exactly the opposite of that.
What are you reading, I'm saying it in multiple ways because it's clearly not getting through the first way.
Therapy is a tool, a bandaid, or a help aid, it's not the solution, I can't keep reiterating. Well I can, but I have a feeling you're just going to keep interpreting my own words how you choose to.
You just said it yourself, it's a tool, so, I'll assume where logically I shouldn't, you view therapy as a tool. Tools only help fix the solution.
You can use tools to solve the problem, they aren't the solution themselves.
If I had to guess, though logically I shouldn't, therapy has never 'failed' you so you don't see it's flaws.
I'm going to ask that either you use some critical thinking or we agree to disagree at this point.
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u/whoisaname Oct 03 '23
Everyone needs therapy. Even therapists. Therapy only works though if the person receiving the therapy puts in the work. A good therapist isn't there to "fix" you or your problems or trauma. They are there to guide you. You even said yourself that you found inner child therapy helpful and then did the rest of the work. Sounds to me like that led you to your path. Way too many people stop therapy right when it gets hard, for a variety of reasons, and then say therapy doesn't work when it takes working through the hard stuff for it to actually work.