You don't need to be psychologically "fucked up" to benefit from seeking mental health. Everyone has different goals. It depends entirely on how much you, the pt put into your own care.
They can't force you do anything or take take their suggestions into consideration.
People with mild stressors can benefit, as can people who are suicidal.
& Sometimes, just having someone to talk and validate yourself can help as well.
People need to get to the point where they don't have to see MH weekly and are able to function and use their resources themselves.
I do think everyone can benefit from stress management.
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All those who do not enjoy going to work each day, but have to force themselves often end up depressed and perhaps it could help them. Last I heard 3 out of 4 people were this way. Only 25% of people liked their jobs.
I picked 75% as a result.
I can't help but see a psychologist/therapist as basically a qualified rent-a-friend. While most people could probably benefit from that, I don't see it as a necessary profession, those people should talk to their friends and family rather than paying a stranger to pretend to care.
I guess it could be useful in some situations to have someone unbiased, distant, and expendable, unlike your friends/family. But talk to a priest I guess, traditionally similar occupation and they won't charge you.
Let me know any useful advice you got from a therapist/psychologist/counselor.
I suppose I should say everyone does since my wife is a counselor, but I won't.
The vast majority of us would likely benefit from a neutral party with mental health training being available to us to help us through some of the difficult changes and challenges in life.
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When i was young i saw a counselor for anger issues she taught me methods and after a few months i never saw her again. But i carried some of those methods with me and now i don't ever get overly mad and haven't since i been an adult
It's hard to gauge a percentage tbh.. but I'd definitely say a good majority of folks would do benefit from it, even if just a little. I'd say like 75% maybe.
I heard a statistic once that 1 in 4 people suffer from a mental disorder. Think about that next time you're in line at the bank. Just look around you and think, "Ok, which one of you mother fuckers is clinically bat shit?"
we change the oil in our cars every 4 months or so, but no mental/emotional health checkups... in this stressful world. around 45% min.
Well over 75 %. People go to the doctor for just a cold sometimes. If you have a troubled mind, even if it's little or you just need advice, you can go to the 'mind doctor' That's how I see it. You don't need to wait until you're depressed.
I don't know, I would like to say great majority of the younger generation. But then I think of how many bad advice they can get if it's a broken therapist involved.
Well if you're like me, or yourself as stated, then it's a 0% chance as it didn't really help much, but it works for some people, so maybe 50% because it can benefit some and not so much others
I'd go 70-80% on this one
just some one to unload on is just so help full
At least 50%, especially in America.
50%-%60 sounds about right.
3/4. One more, one less
Pretty much every Democrat.
Seems like a high paying career!
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