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RE: does any have experience with "cob"?????

It works, J., ppl can just cut/paste the link.

And it's incredible!





P.S. you are serious

Get some help.

Oh you, TV-rats , I don't even know what shows you are talking about

Hey, Lush , great having you back

Get some help.

Hi Charli

This 12-step-program to fight addictions - I never heard of it.

I looked it up in Wiki just now

and it does sound interesting. I am wondering if it's something smokers can use too when they are trying to quit?

Thank you for info.

RE: What's up?

Hi SixFootSeven, welcome to CS!

No one talks to you? lol... it's not you, it's the site specifics - no one talks to anybody here.

If you want to meet ppl, be proactive - do a lot of talking yourself. You 'll find a real one if it's what you want.

Good luck!



P.S. Oh, and be careful too - read the site's info on scammers. It's worth for a newbie to get familiar with this info

RE: does any have experience with "cob"?????

What? No walk-in closet?



Beautiful. I think I could live in such place.

Hi Joel

Get some help.

Oh, you...

You are making it up as you go, J.

Get some help.

Hi Crolly.

I have read through all the replies on this thread
(thank you all guys for your input - very much appreciated)

and I didn not get the feeling that people expect therapists to have some magical powers to change all what is happening in their lives. Not at all.

And for sure I did not expect it from my therapy sessions - would be weird to expect that.

And yes (speaking for myself):

I was "100% ready to to embrace this change and 100% prepared to work openly and truthfully with the therapist."

I found it of no use at all - "the professional help".

Am curious, did you personally have any successful experience with "professional help" to speak about, Crolly?

Get some help.

Exactly. Don't you dare...

Get some help.

Sommer, I appreciate you coming forward with you experience.
It's exactly what I am actually looking for: not how it can work in theory but someone who found therapy helpful for them.

Two years is a long time to devote to it, but I’d imagine so worth it if it worked.

My questions to you would be:
· was this therapist the first one you tried and was s/he recommended to you by someone?

· at what point you were convinced this particular therapist is worth your time?


Well, being emotionally raw was my reason for seeking help to begin with.

And no, I was not looking for a therapist to give me answers or fix my problem, they have no such power. But to help me deal with this surreal feeling I had, just to cope with it somehow. That I didn't find.


Ironically, that was my problem to begin with:
failing to remove my daughter from the situation and keep her safe. But I am sure there are many different techniques to approach different problems.
My therapist, like so many others on this thread, had nothing to offer.


I've actually heard bits and pieces of your story in other threads over the period of time.
Hope I am not overstepping any boundaries now...
Without doubting anything about your therapist, just going from the story I've heard here-and-there, can I ask you?

Would all the credit for you eventually overcoming your hard times go to the therapy aka professional help? Your loyal "pushy" friends, who didn't take 'NO' for an answer when you shut the world out, had nothing to do with it - the credit? And the-greatest-healer-of-all the time? 2 years?

Just thinking out loud...

Get some help.

Great! One would think so. Yes.

But, Jeff, if you read through this thread, the are many people of faith who found psychotherapy not working for them at all, absolutely useless... And not once or twice...


Now, the fact as you know: I, not-believer, was "mesmerized" and "psychologically manipulated" by a person of faith for 7 years.

RE: Where are you leaving your footprint

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RE: Where are you leaving your footprint

Haha..

My mistake, Snuggs, sorry.

I admit it - I can only speak for a few countries in Central Europe.

RE: My Darling ----- Author : JeMs

very romantic, Sassy


haha...

Good morning

RE: Where are you leaving your footprint

Absolutely agree with your statement here Snuggs.

I think it's an over all culture.
For instance, I never saw people throwing garbage out of their car windows in Europe.

Get some help.

You are right Ray,

that is my observation also:

professionals in this field can't provide a patient with friendship, encouragement and moral support.

"Professional help" = lots of paper work, waste of valuable time and possibly sending a person spinning into a "deeper depression (see Tater's post)".

Friends and a group of like-minded people, who are willing to listen and share experience, can and often do help if a person chooses wisely and opens up/talks away.

Get some help.

This 1 in 100 ratio, how accurate it is you'd think? Even this thread alone shows that far from it. But it's no use to continue disputing statistics without having an actual number at hands.


There are,
no doubt about that.

But not in psychotherapy.
And it takes a person to analyse the parameters.


Yes it can and it happens way too often. Seeking a right professional? That's a tricky part in my experience in general.

Re "lab investigation" -

to do so patient should be knowledgeable enough, don't you think that patients should be able to rely on the doctor's knowledge/education/experience?

G'morning Dmire

RE: MY 1 day employment

twins must be a little older by now...

Good kids, huh?

RE: MY 1 day employment

aren't "they" E.?

RE: Dating and pregnant

Love flowers. You?

RE: Dating and pregnant

Good evening Sommer.

Certainly. A compliment.

RE: Dating and pregnant

RE: MY 1 day employment

haha...

it happened to Joel once too. A little while ago.
I think you took his place as a Wal-Mart greeter when he lost it after just 1 day, and this lady does it on purpose - she sets CSers up

RE: Dating and pregnant

quite a tongue...

Get some help.

I see.

That might had been the case.

So in your opinion, psychotherapy can be successful for ppl with certain upbringing?

And a few specific cultural backgrounds? Mine and some others excluded?

Well...



I understand what you are saying, Jeff. Truly do.

But it's funny.

Get some help.

Oh, sorry Vinny, I didn't read all the replies at once.

You already stated it.

RE: Sweetowen has arrived at cat's house!!

WOO HOO!! Have a blast, girlz!

Get some help.

Haha... Naah, it's just echoing in here.

Hi Vinny.

Glad to hear it helped you in a way.

But 2 sessions?

Would you agree that all it did - it "unleashed" you, made you realize the importance of opening up and talk. To friends, family, like-minded people?

Only wondering...

And glad you found help.

Get some help.

Tater, that's what I like about you -
always a blunt honesty and seeing it deeper than what's on a surface. Or maybe that's life examples surrounding you allowed you to see things deeper?

In any case ...

Get some help.

I doubt she will. Not with 3 kids to raise.

And yes, she did - they are an absolute delight and I love them to pieces - live for them.

But that's not the point here.

I had a dire need for a professional help 5 years ago.
I tried psychotherapy for a few months with a highly qualified professional and it was pitiful to say the least.

Today, when I hear such an advice to anybody "Get a professional help" - makes me laugh.

I do want to be proved wrong.


Oh, I know they are all far from equal, I would be the last person to generalize anything, Jeff.

That's why I asked ppl to share their success-with-a-professional-help experiences if anybody ever had any.

Get some help.

Ditto that.




Hi Morgan , hi Elaine!