1854: Group Therapy

[Keith]

with James Hesky

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[WSEIII]

Band, while not as exciting as sports, is something that one can still participate in when one is in their 60's.

[Enunciated Piffle]

Masturbation, while not as evil as pre-marital sex, sex in the ass, or regular-ass sex, in the eyes of God, is still something sinners can do well into their 40's..

[Scumhook]

Originally Posted by Enunciated Piffle

Masturbation, while not as evil as pre-marital sex, sex in the ass, or regular-ass sex, in the eyes of God, is still something sinners can do well into their 40's..

Did you just advocate masturbating into God's eyes?

[violachick8]

A couple things:

Therapy is not just saying to your client that they need to talk to the person causing the problem. The person causing the problem isn't in therapy and they can't suggest courses of actions to them. Most of therapy is developing coping mechanisms for everybody else. For instance, if I were seeing a client and he was having problems with the way his mom talked to him. I would likely in fact encourage him to talk to his mom about how this makes him feel sure absolutely BUT I would also try to bring things into focus. Maybe somethings going on with his mom right now OR if she is just a huge bitchcuntasshat have my client develop a strategy to not take things that his mom says so seriously to heart or a different way to talk with her. Many therapists use specific interventions that have been tested many times to show that they are more effective statistically for patients. Cognitive-behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, ect. are all found to be more helpful than just drugs or therapy alone.

About the psychiatrist going to another psychiatrist and saying that they have all these problems and they are fucked up ect. Yes its true that this happens but I don't think we resent it. We do it behind each others backs when talking about people like most everyone does. I will add that most people who do go into this line of work are fucked up or have family that is fucked up so we have had personal experience with mental illness. In our training we are encouraged to be open about it and even if we don't have depression, anxiety, bipolar or whatever you are encouraged to be a therapist to taste what being the client is like. Removing the stigma from these disorders is an important part of treating our clients because they feel less shame about their disease and stick to treatment better. Part of this, I believe is being open about what problems we as therapists have.

Disclaimer: I'm only like 15 minutes into the show and there is probably going to be more rant in me. Sorry.

[BrianAlt]

I can definitely relate to James' level of anxiety. It reminded me how glad I am that I no longer sit up at night analyzing every move I made that day and how I could have done it better. I don't even remember how I grew out of that.

That really is a version of hell and I wish it on no one.

[Enunciated Piffle]

Originally Posted by violachick8

Removing the stigma from these disorders is an important part of treating our clients because they feel less shame about their disease and stick to treatment better.

Well...yeah! I'm sure intermittent mumbling, 'Wow that's really messed up..' might discourage repeat business

Having any interest in psychology unfortunately is like Keith's question of 'Do you like The Smiths?' It's an admission to a flaw, but personally I think everyone should have some form of talk therapy, at some point in their life. Also, I'm fucked up in the head.

Nice post. What kind of therapist are you? What's your forte? What interests you most? What's up with neurotic people liking cats? Don't bill me, bro!

[winning]

Enjoyed Hensky immensely, Smiley Face!, (I can't do emoticons so..)

Thanks Chemda for Derek. It's Extraordinary. I didn't know it existed.
Ricky Gervais is a genius.

Good luck to you both for the LA gigs, I hope they are great.

Peter

[BrianAlt]

Originally Posted by winning

(I can't do emoticons so..)

There are buttons for that.