05/21/2019
Therapy is a powerful tool healthy people use to gain help with a range of life issues, from stress to sleep, to relationships and parenting, to depression, anxiety, and trauma. It’s not just venting or talking. Therapy is an interactive, engaging, process and relationship. You and your therapist are a team, and while your therapist possesses important skill, experience, and knowledge, YOU are the expert in your life.
Assumptions and misconceptions have resulted in stigma about therapy and persons seeking it. People who seek therapy are anything but “weak” or “crazy” (or any other words that shame); they ARE proactive, motivated, brave, resourceful, in-control, and above all, healthy. They recognize something or someone is making life difficult; they believe in the possibility of positive change; they desire change, and they take definite steps to make it happen, including acknowledging the need for help.
Here a just few reasons why you might consider trying therapy:
1. Persistent mood swings
2. Big life change(s)
3. Thoughts/plans/attempts of self-harm or su***de (If you are thinking about hurting yourself immediately, contact the National Su***de Prevention Lifeline http://su***depreventionlifeline.org or Crisis Text Line https://www.crisistextline.org at once!)
4. Isolation/withdrawal and loss of joy (in things or people who once brought joy)
5. Using substances to escape or deal with life issues
6. Panic attacks, hallucinations and delusions, forgetting chunks of time, constant crying, changes in sleep and appetite, extreme fearfulness, trauma, etc.
7. Relationship problems
8. Trouble at work or school
9. Chronic stress
10. Parenting
11. You just need to talk to someone
There are many more reasons therapy might be useful than those listed. You can schedule a consultation, which requires no commitment. Send us an email by clicking “Send email.”
Crisis Text Line is the free, 24/7, confidential text message service for people in crisis. Text HOME to 741741 in the United States.
