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Anyone have or know anyone who has had experience with this? Is it woo or does it have a basis in reality?
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Well, we are funny little bunnies, us hominids...Animavore wrote:Is psychotherapy as a whole woo? Something that only works if you believe it will?
Tero wrote:It's kind of mind over matter stuff. The chemicals is messed up and you try to convince yourself otherwise.
There are sort of stepwise programs for specifics fears, like flying. I guess it works for some. You just first sit in an airplane many times. Eventually you take a short flight.
Seth wrote:Fuck that, I like opening Pandora's box and shoving my tool inside it
Indeed. It's not a pancea, it's a medical tool and when used properly and assiduously (which most people can't manage to do) it does have beneficial effects, as I can testify to personally. But don't take it beyond its intended sphere, which is dealing with distorted thinking associated with depression.Tigger wrote:Really, it can and does work, but avoid the woo-oriented stuff and get your, er, friend to go via his doctor.
My experience is that it also helps with generalized / persistent anxiety and also specific fears, even when they are not combined with suicidal ideation. But that is of course anecdotal.Seth wrote:... don't take it beyond its intended sphere, which is dealing with distorted thinking associated with depression.
It only helps you to break negative habitual or cyclical thought patterns by training you to recognize them and short-circuit them, it doesn't have magical powers to make you smarter or wiser.
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