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• rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Then don’t think about it as a science, but as getting help from someone trained to help you. As an example, do you need firefighters to be scientists to get help from them when your house is burning?

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  • db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Kind of yeah, air currents are basically fluid dynamics.

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    • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Doesn’t mean your firefighter is a scientist, which was my point.

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• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Weird thing to say, but, therapy is not a pseudoscience.

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• 601error@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I know the evidence says that therapy works in general, but yeah, it’s difficult to believe. And to be honest, I’d rather take a pill than talk to a therapist, all else being equal.

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  • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well, I can only advise to at least try it.

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    • Mowcherie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And keep trying until you find the right therapist/therapy that works for you. There is huge variation in quality and effectiveness.

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      • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Not only quality but different therapists belong to different “branches” and every branch has its strengths and weaknesses when dealing with specific problems. A good therapist should recommend going to someone of different branch if they feel it would be better for you.

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• Cubes@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have gone through some trauma therapy that has helped where no talk therapy has been able to. There are lots of studies showing the effectiveness too. Look up EMDR or brain spotting.

  I really just have to push back on the “doing nothing at all” or “talking to a rubber duck” piece because I’d been trying that for years and trauma flashbacks don’t seem just go away on their own.

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  • Mowcherie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Brainspotting has been lifechanging for me. Took me decades to find it though.

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  • db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So it works for you and that’s okay. That’s why I made the edit.

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    • Cubes@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I still somewhat take issue with that characterization though. It doesn’t just “work for me and that’s okay,” it works period. It has been clinically shown to work for other people too. I only say this because spreading misinformation about it being “pseudoscience” and ineffective only serves to continue some people’s pain and never find an effective treatment for them, and I believe that’s potentially dangerous.

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      • db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Buddy, I’m not telling you it doesn’t work for you. But you have no problem whatsoever dictating to me that it works for me which it absolutely does not in any way. It’s a waste of my time and energy that yields nothing of value at all.

        You might want to do some of that introspection on this issue you seem to have. Or talk to your therapist about it if it works for you.

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