"I go to therapy"

[Jazzy]

What is your first impression when you hear someone saying "I go to therapy"?

 

[Messy]

I got used to it. I don't even find it weird anymore. I remember in the 70s in Holland there was a comedy sketch about a man going to a psychiater and he felt like he was someone else and it was a tape worm. It was a thing that you made fun of and was not taken seriously. Now especially on a forum with ppl from other countries, I read it all the time and also for whatever nonsense reason they tell each other to get therapy. I had some talks w a psychologist a decade ago. My kids were given to my ex, so I was not so happy. Well the psychologist fixed this problem. Youhave tothink about them and feel like they're near. Wut? Lol as if that's any use. That only makes it worse. It was nice that someone took me serious and listened, but you may as well book the do nothing guy then.

 

[tango]

What is your first impression when you hear someone saying "I go to therapy"?

I don't really have a "first impression".

I have one friend who sees a therapist periodically because he's still struggling a bit following the collapse of a 20-year marriage. He thought everything was fine until his wife more or less threw him out. In the immediate aftermath he was seeing his therapist every couple of weeks, now it's usually no more than every couple of months or so, if something particuar is troubling him.

I've also known people in the past who gushed about how great their therapist was but the therapist had apparently made no progress on anything in a decade. But hey, it's their money so if they want to pay to whine to a professional they can have at it.

 

[Stravinsk]

I don't have any impressions if someone says that. I'm not them, I haven't lived their life, know their hardships, what they've been through or anything else. Maybe they needed it, maybe they didn't. Who am I to judge.

At least with a therapist, there is usually some feedback or at least acknowledgement that can be registered by the senses. It might be bad advice, it might be a "yes man" response for a paycheck at worst, but there is something. Talking, screaming at, or petitioning the Great Therapist In The Sky usually results in a big fat silence, in my experience.