Some Excuses, Some Misconceptions
I don’t need help…
Why do I need help? I can manage myself very well.
Those who can’t cope go for the therapy or help. I’m not mad!
It is just a passing phase and I can take care of myself.
I am not weak you know. I am self sufficient.
I have friends to talk to…
People who don’t have friends need help. I am fine! I can talk to my friends anytime. I am not that type of a person who needs therapy…
I can’t even share my problems with my parents. How can I talk to someone who doesn’t know me and is a total stranger? How this stranger can help without knowing about me?
Why to seek help?
How therapy helps?
I don’t want to share my problems with anyone. I feel that my privacy will be affected and I will not be able to share anything about my private life with anyone. I will surely feel uncomfortable talking about it.
I don’t want to burden anyone with my problems. It is my problems and I think that i only can find solution to it.
As such talking will not help. It is useless exercise with nothing to gain from it.
The Reality:
Talking to your friends can relax you temporarily, but it doesn’t heal.
Therapy is not just talking or sharing your feelings. Your therapist helps you to heal from your past experiences and traumas. This healing changes your life for better.
Therapy rewires the brain.
Therapy helps release trauma from your body which has been affecting you for such a long time.
Therapy helps to remove those learned behaviours which prevent your personal growth.
Therapy helps in changing unhealthy patterns which have been troubling you.