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Originally posted by bb80sc
I agree that therapy should play a role in ones healing. However, there are proven issues of chemical imbalances and difficiencies, which lead to and/or cause depression and the surrounding issues. I do not believe any amount of self help or therapy will fix these types of issues. It may help get a person through the event, but will not cure the event. I do not believe any amount of therapy will actually remove cancer, but it will help the patient get thru the challenges which having cancer brings on....
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Cancer is a physical problem, Panic attacks are mental. Two different things. Therapy is not supposed or designed to cure cancer.
Self help...Dr Phil...is all BS
To sit down with a Psychologist with a PhD and have the desire to change and honesty to be truthfull with yourself, you will have results...it won't be in five minutes or at the end of Seinfeld but given time your circumstances will change. In that your completely wrong BB.
Now for some abstraction...does behavior change brain chemistry..or is it brain chemistry that dictates behavior...
I can see the use of meds to stabilize a situation, but it is not a panacea...an end onto itself....your substituting one demon for another dependency. The idea is to unshackle yourself and be free...To find your Elysian fields..
BTW...I am completely astonished at the number of people on this Board who live better through the use of modern Pharmacia....chemically....
Has it gotten to the point where you get depressed and the answer is to take a pill so you will feel better...Usually mood or feelings are telling you something that should be listened to...in the old days it was part of the survival mechanism..your feeling are not something that should be run away from by taking a pill.
And Rammey good for you....
Here is what a Therapist does for you
1. Your talking about how you feel is what eventually uncovers your true feelings and your truth of the matter.
2. The role of the Therapist is to keep the conversation focused and on track
3. The Therapist has one further role and that is allowing the conversation to be nothing but about you...that in a sense is like being able to look in the mirror and have the mirror talk back...objectivily.