You don't need to justify going to therapy.
—assuming that it's for people with more serious problems, symptoms, or mental health conditions than you're dealing with—I'd like to challenge you to throw out that assumption.for a living, I was under the impression that therapy was forpeople, like people who were having trouble functioning in their daily lives, missing work, not getting out of bed, or otherwise sidelined by symptoms.
While the stigma around mental health seems to have mostly lifted in recent years , this misconception that therapy is reserved for certain people or certain levels of suffering persists. But the research, the experts, and real patients like me tell a different story: You don't need to pass any imaginary threshold in order to justify and.
Cognitive behavioral therapy is one of the most evidence-based types of therapy, focused on helping people identify and change negative thoughts and behaviors. Alooked at the wealth of randomized control trials on CBT across various populations and conditions, concluding: "CBT works [and] it improves the quality of life for people living with many different mental and physical conditions.
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