I used to see Dr. Sagov. Great accent, and good doctor too as far as I could judge. But then he wasn't on my new health plan, so I had to change.
Therapy... don't know. It was useful for me in allowing me to get at what I think are some roots of why I feel the way I do, and helping me understand and break my resistance to doing things I wanted to do (like changing careers). Mostly she just asked leading questions that got me to think about things I already knew in new ways, and recognize new connections between them... like, I knew P and I knew Q but it never occurred to me that they might be related because I never thought about them at the same time, but talking about them both with my therapist I was able to realize the connections. Maybe I could have done that on my own, but I didn't. And the fact that she was someone I had absolutely no social connection to allowed me (after several months of trust-building) to talk about things with her that I wouldn't talk about with most other people, some of which were part of the puzzle I needed to put together.
If some part of your problems stems from that kind of situation, then therapy might help you, if you gave it time and trust to work. If not, or if you couldn't bring yourself to keep at it long enough to build that kind of trust and see those connections, or if you couldn't trust the therapist enough to talk about all the pieces, then I'd guess it probably wouldn't.
And it's worth noting I'm still on meds and still being somewhat depressed. So it didn't solve what I hoped it would - at least, not permanently - but it was helpful anyway.
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Therapy... don't know. It was useful for me in allowing me to get at what I think are some roots of why I feel the way I do, and helping me understand and break my resistance to doing things I wanted to do (like changing careers). Mostly she just asked leading questions that got me to think about things I already knew in new ways, and recognize new connections between them... like, I knew P and I knew Q but it never occurred to me that they might be related because I never thought about them at the same time, but talking about them both with my therapist I was able to realize the connections. Maybe I could have done that on my own, but I didn't. And the fact that she was someone I had absolutely no social connection to allowed me (after several months of trust-building) to talk about things with her that I wouldn't talk about with most other people, some of which were part of the puzzle I needed to put together.
If some part of your problems stems from that kind of situation, then therapy might help you, if you gave it time and trust to work. If not, or if you couldn't bring yourself to keep at it long enough to build that kind of trust and see those connections, or if you couldn't trust the therapist enough to talk about all the pieces, then I'd guess it probably wouldn't.
And it's worth noting I'm still on meds and still being somewhat depressed. So it didn't solve what I hoped it would - at least, not permanently - but it was helpful anyway.