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Re:Therapy Experience Associated with Negative Changes in Pe... by SubiculumCode on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @04:04PM (#13699949)
Neither am I. Ruminating on how we are deficient is no path to happiness or balance. Exercise, eat right, volunteer to serve others who are down and out, learn something new, work toward a purpose or goal, and if necessary, get pharmaceutical help, because for some no lifestyle or conduct can help enough.
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Re:Therapy Experience Associated with Negative Changes in Pe... by DanBC on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @04:07PM (#13699989)
The entire point of modern evidence based therapy is to help stop people ruminating on how they feel deficient.
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Re:Therapy Experience Associated with Negative Changes in Pe... by SubiculumCode on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @06:26PM (#13701226)
Yes, and no. Good therapists do that, but I suspect, but do not know, that therapists may frequently prolong therapy past the point of usefulness to the point where therapy is in itself the significant remaining act of rumination.
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