Psychiatrist Explains The Truth In Giving Out Answers

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  1. Ah yes, the "don't do my job" approach

    One of my favorite mental health techniques.

    The client doing the work is important, like an athlete doing the rehab for a torn ACL.

    BUT, the doctor still needs to do the doctor part first (repair the ACL).

    If someone has a brain malfunction, that needs to be fixed first; the acute suffering needs to be stopped before the rehab begins.

  2. Yes! 🎯 This is exactly what I learned in Early Childhood Education. We focused more on development (cognitive, social, emotional, etc) & psychology than on simply "how to teach" various subjects as in elementary & secondary Ed. Children (& apparently adults) are at different levels of reasoning, due not only to genetics but to past & current experiences. Same with life & relationships. I believe overall communication is better when you understand the other person's POV. Unfortunately the average person doesn't seem to care about seeing mine/others. Understanding (better) one another is the key to having empathy & compassion.

  3. For sure. My long term partner recently broke up with me, and he didn’t really give me concrete info / reasons, even after 6 years. It’s been devastating and frustrating.

    Instead of relying on him for the answers that I deserve, I’ve been having to self-discover ways that this is going to be a good thing for me overall.

  4. Never seen this story but you know part of my career is just sitting with people either giving out explanations or carving out why something's not working or how it should work – as a developer in a team. Useful stuff

  5. @HealthyGamerGG I worked with some psychologists a none of them couldn't teach me anything and I wasn't able to learn it on myself and was so stressed out I didn't realize how stuck I was. I lost 20years to that. I would have needed to tell me directly, how stuck I was, which I still am because i'm 41 with the skills of a 15year old

  6. Throughout school (neuropsych), a lot of my colleagues had a hard time grasping this. I just slowly helped them discover that this was not the career path for them.

    Nothing more endangering than a Healthcare professional thinking they are "allowed" to control everyone's thoughts and opinions. One intern literally told her client "I'm allowed to tell you you're not allowed to identify as mixed because you look more black anyways. If you just stayed in your black place you wouldn't have depression". YIKES

  7. My boyfriend gets mad because his therapist doesn't give him the answers. Exactly this is what I'm trying to tell him. He needs to give himself answers and a therapist only points in a direction where an answer could be.

  8. To me, there’s NOTHING worse than going for coaching, counselling or therapy and some berk asks you: “So how do you think you can get through this?” If I knew the sodding answer, I wouldn’t be there!!!!

  9. And for people like me, I’d like to have the answer of ‘11’ first, then you can explain the whole process to me. Without that 11, I can’t hear whatever you say, so basically that is why I hate modern therapy and never went to one: therapists are told to guide instead of giving answers directly, but I just need answer first. I can figure out the process myself. When I was in primary school, I used to copy the exact right answer for comprehension questions in homework. In case teachers bother me, I paraphrase it a little bit, but I indeed copy the answer. Guess what? I got full marks in finals, because I learn from those ‘right’ answers. Wandering on the road with a bunch of wrong answers does not give you right answers. See those right answers and repeat them led me to top1 grade student. Guidance is like intentionally giving frustration and wrong answers, then revealing the right one in the end, like it could be deeper or more effective. No, it does not. If you have been trying to figure out the murderer in a detective story for years and someone just guide you for months and finally give you the answer, will you be happy? I won’t. I come here and pay you for the answer, not your guidance. No offense. Just my personal opinion on the whole guidance thing in modern psychotherapy.

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