Do they help? Anyone have any experience with them?

I feel like they are just going to give me some cliche garbage that i have heard ten times over.
I have previous experience but not in this context. I saw someone when i was younger under my own pretenses but as of now this situation is totally different since it is more of a professional and i am being forced to go. Before i went on my own but it was more of just someone to talk to.
If you’re not one of those people who think they’re doomed to live the rest of their lives miserably, then I think it’s possible to find some help out of them.

Matters what YOU put into it. People that bitch about therapy usually never really tried.
and is there anyway to prepare, like what happens in a first visit ?
Just go in with an open mind. Nothing worse or more annoying than people who act as if they are above therapy and therefore don’t open up or act like jerks when they should be opening up. Just go. If you don’t dig it in any way don’t go again

I personally loved when I went to therapy. It was someone new with completely unbiased ears to listen to me and then give me feedback on things I had never thought about. However, I also had to try 2 different therapists. You don’t always get a great one on the first try.
Thinking about shit, understanding how you feel about shit, and possible crying and being terrified to talk about things important to you.
I suppose they are useful to point things out for you that you’ve never noticed. It is entirely up to you to dissolve your problems. I have experiential knowledge of people driven into a cave for what the therapist pointed out to them. This individual is cosmically racist, and a terrible person, unless you are white and do not offend him.

So there you have it. They can point things out and make suggestions, but as usual, you have to self discover, fix yourself.

nothing to prepare for. they will ask you basic questions to get a basic history of you. they might not get much past that in your first visit. they are not there to tell you how to live your life, they are there to help you realize things about yourself that you are not aware of. you will be surprised. just go in with an open mind. it cant hurt

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