Other Side of the Couch

Welcome to a blog that aims to be full of insightful ramblings from a licensed psychotherapist, with a specialty in sex therapy and marriage and family therapy. It is my hope that this blog will be of interest to people in therapy, people contemplating therapy, people contemplating being therapists, people about to be therapists and people who already are therapists!

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Top Ten Reasons For Starting Therapy



10. Your friends and family have tried their best, but they can't seem to help you with your problems.

9. Buying self-help books is growing tiresome and is only slightly helpful (another book on saving your marriage by somebody on their third one?).

8. You don’t trust anybody else to know your innermost secrets and private struggles and have heard that psychotherapists are confidential and private.

7. You and your partner/friend/family member/spouse keep having the same old fight, yet more of the same and LOUDER doesn’t appear to be helping.

6. You can’t stop crying, are either sleeping too much or too little and have either no appetite or can’t stop eating.

5. You’re having trouble making friends and reaching out to people and think therapy might help.

4. You feel lonely, scared and isolated and can’t bear feeling this way any longer.

3. It helped somebody you know, so maybe it will work for you.

2. Getting drunk (or having sex, going shopping, gambling etc) to deal with life’s challenges is playing havoc on your professional and personal life and you don’t know where else to turn for help.

1. You’ve tried absolutely everything else – 12 step groups, support groups, friends, family, books – therapy is your last resort.






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