Dyskusja:Kiedy pójść do psychoterapeuty?

218 When to go to a psychotherapist? --- PMH-218

1. When we feel bad, we are sad, our friends have no strength for us, it is difficult to get along with everyone around us, talking to loved ones or friends about problems does not help, and our condition is getting worse, it is probably worth considering a visit to a good psychotherapist or someone who practices life counselling with the help of psychosynthesis, dianetics or transpersonal psychology, taking into account the soul and higher feelings. Similarly, if what once gave joy, satisfaction, and a sense of happiness no longer brings them today but gives rise to frustration or emptiness, sterility and a sense of meaninglessness, it is better to look for specialists to solve problems with our Psyche, Soul, and Self. Also, instead of meeting people, we isolate ourselves from everyone in solitude; when we run away from family and loved ones with whom we used to like spending time together, it is probably time to take an interest in psychotherapy training, repairing ourselves and improving our functioning. An ordinary autumn depression, where, as in the song, even sex becomes banal, may show the intensification of problems that will have to be dealt with, and probably with the professional help of a therapist. The lyrical subject of “autumn depression” should usually go to specialists in matters of the self, soul and the meaning of life because the situation in which old fears or the desire for death return once again repeats itself and may intensify, leading to a total suicidal catastrophe of such a human being.

2. A doctor of soul therapy, psychotherapist or dianeticist should be sought, especially when people turn away from us and our loneliness and sense of abandonment deepen. In the old days, problems with the Psyche, with oneself, with emotions or feelings, were dealt with by experienced shamans or priests. In relationships, if we cause psychological pain to those close to us, if we hurt those closest to us, we behave compulsively mean or nasty, we are spiteful without recognizing our motivations or aspirations or goals, and our loved ones often suggest that we should seek emotional and spiritual therapy. More and more men come to psychospiritual therapies, although women are still more open to emotional help. Men also suffer from problems at work, broken hearts, crises in relationships, career breakdowns, loss of a company, death or departure of someone close, or various tragic situations. People who see in themselves a long-term deterioration of mood, apathy, sadness, poorer functioning, increased fears, isolation from people or those who suffer from somatic symptoms or diseases that cannot be cured medically often come to psychotherapy or dianetics, psychosynthesis classes. People generally have many difficulties in love and social relationships; there are many relational difficulties, including relating to each other in close, intimate relationships, at work, or in a social group. Difficulties and inability to open up to each other, help each other, enter into mutual dependencies, support each other, and find one another in an ever-changing world and a modulating culture.

3. Many human problems result from changes in culture and economy because maybe people do not need other people as much as in historical times, in the proverbial era of Piast Kołodziej on Slavic land. Once, all the neighbours helped a young family build a new house from wooden logs eagerly cut for this purpose in the wilderness, and today, such neighbourly help is not possible. Technology is rushing forward in its development, and interpersonal contacts look different than in the times of Piast Kołodziej and even different than 30 years ago, i.e. in one Saturn cycle back. As humans, however, we are genetically and species-specifically conditioned, and as mammals, we need closeness and warmth, the survival of which depends on a caregiver or partner. Mammals need petting and caressing, and humans, as mammals, are genetically conditioned to the need for cuddling, tenderness, and various caresses. Those who have taken offence at close relationships are often deprived because their nature is devoid of natural reflexes characteristic of mammals. Psychotherapists, dianetics, and psychosynthesis, in their classes and training, conduct a practice that restores natural reflexes and behaviours of human nature, which has its roots in the evolutionary past of the entire mammalian line. Group revival therapy classes allow for eliminating many interpersonal relational problems and learning about other people’s natural needs and expectations in our everyday lives.

4. Psychoanalysts are known to use a couch on which the patient undergoing therapy sits or lies down, but most psychotherapists allow sitting on a chair or armchair and in group classes, camping in a circle on a carpet or stumps in a circle, like scouts around an outdoor campfire. Disorders in relationships and social relations and problems with oneself are professionally called mental disorders and personality and neurotic disorders, and these terms are often feared by people associated with mental illnesses. Therapeutic work most often includes self-centred, narcissistic, hysterical problems, dependent personality, borderline, as well as many other fixed character traits that often develop from childhood and persist for most of life. Many character traits help us cope with problems in youth, but over time, they begin to interfere with adult life. Many traits of a distorted character influence the environment so strongly that everyone is fed up with us. People who know psychotherapy clients are fed up with drinking, fed up with being offended, having outbursts, fed up with being locked in a world of fantasy, illusions and delusions, fed up with being stupefied, and not being able to communicate. Personality disorders are diagnosed much more often today than in the past when severe mental disorders such as schizophrenia were diagnosed, although there is still no convincing scientific evidence for their objective existence, and psychiatry has caused great harm to millions of people.

5. Psychotherapy, psychosynthesis and dianetics, like psychoanalysis, are not some new fashion to be more trendy, but a maturity of science and therapeutic insight to truly help patients. While psychiatry is often a reason for shame and at least partially unnecessary and ineffective treatment with medications, psychotherapy is a type of self-development practice and therapy that is very helpful for people who suffer from depression, severe anxiety, claustrophobia, psychotic disorders, which are not trendy but can be embarrassing. Psychological problems and difficulties are real pain and suffering, and therapies for the soul, emotions, and self are becoming more and more common despite a certain danger of psychotherapists manipulating patients for political, ideological and personal purposes, which is usually something that clients attending therapy are sensitive to. Associations connected with psychiatry are constantly more negative, especially related to so-called forensic psychiatry and its shortcomings or abuses, but people’s associations connected with various schools of psychotherapy are increasingly positive and are constantly changing for the better, and this despite certain abuses or excesses that occur, such as ideological psycho-manipulation or certain sexual scandals associated with so-called sex therapists satisfying their desires on naive, manipulated patients.

6. Depression or psychotic states are a type of disease similar to coronary artery disease, and burnout or simple aversion to everything are often the initial symptoms of depressive states. While it is easier to diagnose the disease and start treatment with toothache, it is very difficult to start treatment on your own with personality disorders and underdevelopment because there are no pills for the pain of the soul. The role of a psychotherapist is to look at the patient/client from a certain distance and indicate important points to correct in everyday functioning. When going to psychotherapy, it is necessary to remember that from a certain distance and a neutral point of view of a specialist experienced in therapy in matters of the soul, ego and self, it is easiest to help, provide assistance and provide appropriate treatment. Family, loved ones, and friends are usually harder to help due to the lack of neutrality and emotional distance. Situations are frequent when one psychotherapist refers a client/patient to another who deals more deeply with some type of problem, and it is worth remembering that atheists should not conduct therapies for existential and spiritual problems because they are unable to understand the problem. Similarly, someone who is a psychopath is unable to deal with the problems of people with a developed structure of higher feelings and abstraction.

7. There are many schools and trends of psychotherapy, and specialists conducting psychotherapy are usually associated with various societies, trusts, foundations or associations. Usually, more women participate in psychotherapy, as they are naturally more open to working with emotions, and men more often use individual therapy than group therapy. It is worth familiarizing yourself with the code of ethics or the rule card of the therapeutic system or organization to which the therapist you are going to belong. You should also remember specific types of psychotherapeutic problems, as in the case of victims of childhood abuse by clergy, because such groups require a specific approach and methods with elements of spiritual and religious knowledge. The profession of a therapist of human souls belongs to the group of liberal professions, partly medical and partly creative, because it combines, especially in group therapy, scientific medical knowledge with the artistic expression of emotions and internal states in the form of psychodrama, releases, interpersonal exercises and many interesting methods of treatment, which are not so easy to use. Ideally, psychosynthesis combines elements of psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy, or dianetics in an individual way appropriately selected for a given patient.

(Udana)

Master Himalaya Swami