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Honestly, there's a whole field of professionals that's designed to deal with problems like these; it's called psychotherapy. It helped me, though not for this

Honestly, there's a whole field of professionals that's designed to deal with problems like these; it's called psychotherapy. It helped me, though not for this exact problem, but for something related.

mynameishere 14y ago
it's called psychotherapy You were perhaps trying to say "psychiatry". Psychotherapy is a pseudoscience right up there with dream interpretation. And everyone else posting might consider that the OP isn't apparently an imbecile, and so is well-aware that an industry of therapists/doctors/quacks (etc etc etc) exists for mental health problems and that recommending it is pretty much redundant.
- YuriNiyazov 14y ago
  I was most definitely not trying to say "psychiatry". Mental health counseling and cognitive behavioral therapy have been shown to be non-quack mechanisms that are practiced by non-MDs. These revolve around talking about and modifying one's thought process patterns, and do not involve prescribed medication, unlike psychiatry.
- JonnieCache 14y ago
  Psychotherapy is a category, not a specific practice. You are almost certainly talking about 19th century style freudian psychoanalysis, which is not representative of the field today. Modern psychotherapy is largely based around sensible evidence based things like CBT, mentioned many times in this thread. Lots of it is carried out by trained and qualified MD type people. CBT for example is part of the NHS's mental health system. The people who provide it are called psychiatrists. Obviously there are a lot of quacks out there but I have faith that the OP is not vulnerable enough to be taken in by them.
  - naughtyjohn 14y ago
    At least in the NHS, CBT is NOT provided by Psychiatrists, but by Psychologists (or sometimes others). Psychiatrists deal in Chemical responses to problems, whilst Psychologists deal with Talking treatments, and at least in the NHS there seems to be a definite divide between the two.

mynameishere 14y ago

it's called psychotherapy You were perhaps trying to say "psychiatry". Psychotherapy is a pseudoscience right up there with dream interpretation. And everyone else posting might consider that the OP isn't apparently an imbecile, and so is well-aware that an industry of therapists/doctors/quacks (etc etc etc) exists for mental health problems and that recommending it is pretty much redundant.

YuriNiyazov 14y ago
I was most definitely not trying to say "psychiatry". Mental health counseling and cognitive behavioral therapy have been shown to be non-quack mechanisms that are practiced by non-MDs. These revolve around talking about and modifying one's thought process patterns, and do not involve prescribed medication, unlike psychiatry.
JonnieCache 14y ago
Psychotherapy is a category, not a specific practice. You are almost certainly talking about 19th century style freudian psychoanalysis, which is not representative of the field today. Modern psychotherapy is largely based around sensible evidence based things like CBT, mentioned many times in this thread. Lots of it is carried out by trained and qualified MD type people. CBT for example is part of the NHS's mental health system. The people who provide it are called psychiatrists. Obviously there are a lot of quacks out there but I have faith that the OP is not vulnerable enough to be taken in by them.
- naughtyjohn 14y ago
  At least in the NHS, CBT is NOT provided by Psychiatrists, but by Psychologists (or sometimes others). Psychiatrists deal in Chemical responses to problems, whilst Psychologists deal with Talking treatments, and at least in the NHS there seems to be a definite divide between the two.