Please share your experience with therapy? What was the results?

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1. Therapy literally saved my life. You’ll have your own preferences about what type of therapist you want, but overall therapy is beneficial.

   It’s hard, don’t get me wrong, but it’s worth it.

2. Can’t be bothered to get into it right now, but just do it, if you have the means economically. The kind fo therapy was called “Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy”, i think. Very important to figure out how and why I act like I do, etc. Almost no anxiety anymore, from being a major daily thing. Depression still pops up every now and then but you improve the ways of dealing with it.
   Edit: I got recommended a therapist from a friend, a male. And I think it was good for me, since parts of my problems was relationships with women and showing emotions to men etc, to oversimplify.

3. Therapy prevented me from continuing a downward spiral into severe and crippling anxiety. I developed CPTSD and severe anxiety from work. Therapy has drastically reduced my anxiety. I’ll always have CPTSD but it’s manageable now. I highly recommend therapy. However, you get out of it what you put into it. I didn’t care what gender my therapist was. I just needed someone who A) understood what I do and B) can give me tools to succeed

4. So I had 3 different ones. The experience I had was th

5. been with my fifth for several years

   a lady about a decade older than me, after three gents and another lady who were meh

   it’s been a positive experience for me…a way to reflect and to churn ideas with a trusted person who is outside of my life

6. It is positive but it didn’t change my life that much. Good to vent but (until now) doesn’t really help me get anywhere as I thought it could.

7. I’m going through therapy at the moment with Betterhelp. I’ve heard some mixed reviews about it but the therapist I’ve been seeing has been fantastic. I’ve told him stuff I’ve never spoken to anyone about before, and I’ve been educated on why I am like I am.

   I’ve got a long way to go but I feel so much better than I did two months ago. I’d recommend therapy to anyone.

8. I’ve done a lot. Therapy, hypnotherapy, counselling, 12 step programs, men’s groups, the full catastrophe.

   I’m 59 now. I look around me now at my aged peers. They are kind of going through the motions, because nothing changes in their lives. I’m doing new stuff. My relationship with my wife, that was always rocky because we came from such messed up families is better than ever.

   I just can’t recommend it enough.

   Here is another thing, having been involved in men’s groups for many years now, something that I keep seeing, is guys go through a tough time, their lives fall apart. They hit bottom. Things are finally bad enough that they reach out and get help. This is when we would first meet.

   10 years later, I run into them again. I don’t recognise them, because they look ten years younger than when I last saw them. And they are with a new partner who they would have labelled as “out of their league” when we first met.

   Therapy is like a gym membership. It works for you if you show up and work at it. It also works if you are with the right person.

9. Therapy gave me the tools to better understand myself and my relationships. As a result I have way more agency in life. More than ever before, I’m in the driver’s seat instead of just reacting to everything.

10. Therapy completely changed my life for the better. It helped me understand things about myself, my childhood and my behaviors that were holding me back in relationships that I wasn’t even aware of.

    I did have to go through a few different therapists to find the right one. For me it was someone who was well versed in attachment theory.