Your guess is as good as mine when it comes to guessing how many different types of therapy there are to cure illnesses or phobias. I've only tried two, which is two more than most people. A session alone with a psychologist is probably the most common though. It starts out with you telling the psychologist why you're there, very roughly in the start, and then you make sort of a plan together with how you should progress. I remember my plan was pushed aside quite quickly. My reason for seeing a psychologist was social anxiety and depression, or so I thought. I didn't realize until well in the sessions that it was more complicated than that. We went sometimes really far back in my life to find the reasons and then not so far back.
The sessions were often exhausting. Remembering back to times you've tried to forget is hard enough but it's not untill you voice them to a person they become real. You are exposing yourself completely, which I've had no problem with. The psychologist is a person you don't know, so you can set aside any feelings of guilt or fear of the person telling other people without consent.
Fall 2011 was the time I started doing group sessions and I participated in the group untill last summer. With one session each week except for the summer and holidays, I've been at maybe a hundred of them. It feels like it anyway. Nervous and a bit excited I entered the room for the first time. I had no idea of what I was getting myself into. Every time you see a group session on TV you see a lot of chairs formin a circle, and it was exactly how this was. The other ones in my group were there because of similar reasons as I had. You think you're the only one having the problems you've got and suddenly you are one out of seven; how marvellous it is. How each session should be was much up to us. Either we could talk about a specific topic or we could tell what's been going on since last session.
The group sessions gave as much help as the regular sessions I'd say. However, I don't think I'd be ready to join untill I had got to know myself better and be more confident on who I am and say what's on my mind. The benefit of having people in the same situation, in the same age group, is big. You get to discuss on a serious level, give and recieve advices from your peers. This might sound strange but it is easier to listen and believe what a person tells you to do, rather than you saying it to yourself. My self esteem is quite low and I'm a master at questioning any thought I get. The pessimistic me will always find a way to be negative. So, if there's any questions, leave me a comment and I'll get back to you.
Please remember that ""[y]ou are enough. You are so enough, it's unbelievable how enough you are. "
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