Can therapy make people worse?

Answer 1

Yes...People just get more ideas about what they could possible "have" and then they get stuck in the rut of their "clinical prognosis" instead of learning to live up to their mental and emotional potential. It's amazing what a person can learn to do before they are taught that they can't.

Answer 2

It depends on the type of therapy, the integrity of the doctor, the accurateness of the diagnosis and the determination of the patient to follow the doctors orders. There are many different factors that can effect how a person reacts to therapy, so I would say that therapy may make some people worse.

Answer 3

I've never had a bad therapist, though I did fire one once.

I think there are some therapists who shouldn't be practicing, some lawyers who should be disbarred and some people who shouldn't have a driver's license.

I was lucky to find an extremely good therapist. His style was what you might generally call "body-oriented psychotherapy". He doesn't do insurance, so he's not doing any diagnosis stuff. He helped me get in touch with my body...and that's where all the answers were, not in my mind. I had mind-f*&$@d myself for a long time. He didn't generally call me on my BS but I learned how to call myself on it.

Maybe therapy isn't what's needed. Maybe a transformational type of program/course or a trip to a foreign country.

If you're interested in body-based therapy, check out Hakomi or Somatic Experiencing, two I've had good results with

Answer 4

Absolutely, especially if you don't complete the whoel thing. It is like cleaning your room, you get all the dust out, you have to finish cleaning or else, only get worse. Sometimes, therapy takes long time, people quit in the middle will make things worse because they know their problems, but not fixing it.

Answer 5

NO.

ONLY IF THEY BLAME THE THERAPIST FOR THEIR PROBLEMS.

THERAPY JUST OFFERS AN OBJECTIVE OBSERVATION, AND OFFERS ALTERNATIVE COPING TECHNIQUES.

EVERYONE IS THE STAR OF THEIR OWN PLAY, AND "RIGHT" IN THEIR OWN MIND. ALL THEIR DECISIONS MAKE SENSE TO THEM......

AN OBJECTIVE THIRD PARTY IS NOT BIASED OR BLINDED BY PERSONAL FEELINGS OR MOTIVES. TRY BULLSHI**ING A THERAPIST AND YOU WON'T GET TOO FAR. IT IS NOT AS EASY AS BULLSHI**ING YOURSELF.....

THERAPISTS ARE NOT PSYCHIC. PEOPLES' MOTIVES ARE CLEAR TO THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW OF THEIR PERSONAL RATIONALIZATIONS, BECAUSE THEIR BEHAVIOR REFLECTS HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT THEMSELVES INSIDE. THEY ARE TRANSPARENT TO OTHERS, EVEN IF THEY THINK THEY'RE FOOLING OTHERS....

A THERAPIST IS BEING PAID TO BE A TRUSTWORTHY AND CONFIDENTIAL FRIEND THAT HAS YOUR BEST INTEREST IN MIND.

YOUR FRIENDS HAVE YOUR BEST INTEREST, BUT THEY ARE EMOTIONALLY INVESTED, SO THEY CAN'T BE OBJECTIVE LIKE A THERAPIST CAN.

Answer 6

sometimes. in therapy it brings everything to the surface. even the stuff you repressed and thought you had forgotten about. bringing all that to the surface again can bring all the hidden and repressed emotions and anger with it causing an emotional overload. it's all for the better supposedly but sometimes it does backfire.

Answer 7

In some cases, yes. Sometimes you have to change therapists.

Answer 8

It did my sister. It turned her in to a control freak who always has to be right. She used to be fun, now she's a pain in the azz.

Answer 9

I have heard that that is possible, but have not researched it. Not all counselors, psychologists, and psychiatrists know what they're doing.

Answer 10

IF the therapist is mad, indeed.