I assume everyone has a mental illness, and cant really help. This is just me of course. I was in therapy long enough to know. My therapist literally told me life is a game, and agreed with me that she didn’t believe in bipolar. Use therapy if it can help, but people use it as a backdrop because they don’t truly understand the complexity of the world or their own emotions in relation to it. I don’t advise anyone seek therapy out if they understand their own issue, just hope for the best and try to take one day at a time. Life is incredibly unfair. And a therapist isnt your friend. Just a person who is just as broken as you, who found themselves in a position of power over you cause of your compromised state.
Therapy isn’t recommended for a lot of mental illnesses. You need a diagnosis from a psychiatrist, not a therapist or counselor. They can understand what you are going through because they have been trained and educated. You don’t have to experience something first hand to be able to do it. Can a nurse give a diabetic insulin? Or does that nurse have to be a diabetic to do that?
When used properly therapy serves as a framework for someone to understand (and hopefully come to terms with) their issue. You do not need to have experienced every specific traumatic, biologic, or external effect to provide said framework for their specific issue.
You don’t need to have had mental health problems to be a therapist. Its a double edged sword really. If you have had bad past experiences you have to work harder as a therapist to not allow those experiences to cloud and interfere in your work with a client particularly if you can identify with an issue whereas therapists with a clean slate don’t need to do that but they can still have deep empathy and understand an issue from the clients perspective. There is nothing more damaging to a client than a therapist saying oh yeah I know exactly how you feel that happen to me and then them dumping their psychological shit on the client.
I assume everyone has a mental illness, and cant really help. This is just me of course. I was in therapy long enough to know. My therapist literally told me life is a game, and agreed with me that she didn’t believe in bipolar. Use therapy if it can help, but people use it as a backdrop because they don’t truly understand the complexity of the world or their own emotions in relation to it. I don’t advise anyone seek therapy out if they understand their own issue, just hope for the best and try to take one day at a time. Life is incredibly unfair. And a therapist isnt your friend. Just a person who is just as broken as you, who found themselves in a position of power over you cause of your compromised state.
Therapy isn’t recommended for a lot of mental illnesses. You need a diagnosis from a psychiatrist, not a therapist or counselor. They can understand what you are going through because they have been trained and educated. You don’t have to experience something first hand to be able to do it. Can a nurse give a diabetic insulin? Or does that nurse have to be a diabetic to do that?
When used properly therapy serves as a framework for someone to understand (and hopefully come to terms with) their issue. You do not need to have experienced every specific traumatic, biologic, or external effect to provide said framework for their specific issue.
Yes because they’re trained professionals
You don’t need to have had mental health problems to be a therapist. Its a double edged sword really. If you have had bad past experiences you have to work harder as a therapist to not allow those experiences to cloud and interfere in your work with a client particularly if you can identify with an issue whereas therapists with a clean slate don’t need to do that but they can still have deep empathy and understand an issue from the clients perspective. There is nothing more damaging to a client than a therapist saying oh yeah I know exactly how you feel that happen to me and then them dumping their psychological shit on the client.