It's not so easy to encourage yourself to go to a therapist. After all, you are going to divulge some intimate information to a person, you are not familiar with. This is why some people start their therapy with a neutral issue, which seems to be safe for the discussion. Commonly, these issues are relationships with colleagues or parenting problems.
After a while, when a patient and a therapist establish a rapport, it becomes possible for a patient to tackle deeper feelings and traumatic experiences that held them captive. Sometimes these feelings are uneasy and painful, sometimes emotions are frozen. Oftentimes people come to a consultant when the anxiety is so painful and unbearable, not always knowing where to start their story without feeling ashamed and awkward. It takes time to encourage and go into deeper exploration of the Self. Healing isn’t a straight path. It’s a series of small steps - sometimes forward, sometimes backward, but each one matters.
There are common myths about the therapeutic process.
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