7 Reasons To Go To The Psychologist
Contrary to what happens when we unburden ourselves with our loved ones, the psychologist will not take part in the conflict, but will help us to find the tools so that we can let’s solve
Although we have “advanced” enough not to believe that going to the psychologist is “crazy”, there is still some reluctance when making the decision.
Professional help and therapy can help us solve past problems, improve our present, and change our future.
These are just a few reasons for an inquiry. Find out more in the following article.
Why go to the psychologist?
As a first step, you must banish that idea or preconception that to go to the psychologist we must be crazy. Think that it is a way to take care of your problems and anguish.
In the same way that in the beauty salon they cut your hair or make a mask for wrinkles, the mind also needs care.
Requesting professional help is not easy and requires determination that many times we do not have or do not take seriously.
Remember that sometimes you can’t take care of everything that happens by yourself. You can’t know everything either. That’s what therapy exists for.
Do not think that to start the sessions with the psychologist you will have to continue like this all your life. You can decide for yourself when to continue and when to leave once you feel that you have been able to solve the problem that plagued you.
Reasons to go to the psychologist
Contrary to popular belief, asking for help is brave and intelligent, not cowardly.
Just as it makes no sense to endure physical pain (toothache, back pain, etc.), we should not have emotional pain either.
If you don’t know why to go to the psychologist, pay attention to these reasons:
1. It is a space for you
Maybe you spend all day working, doing housework, or fulfilling obligations.
You do not have time to dedicate yourself: going to the gym or the beauty salon, taking a nap or taking a bath are forbidden pleasures due to lack of time.
- Then take the session as a well-deserved space to take care of yourself. As if it were a massage, but for the soul.
- Wanting an hour a week to solve your problems is not being selfish, but an opportunity to improve your relationships with yourself and with others.
2. It allows you to understand
Emotions often take over and do not allow us to think or act clearly. At other times, we don’t quite understand why we do certain things.
We all have blocks, experiences and situations that make us decide in a specific way.
Going to the psychologist can help us, for example, to understand why we are the way we are or why the same things always happen to us.
You may be needing a “formal” explanation of your feelings to cope with them.
3. They won’t judge you
Has it ever happened to you that, when talking to a friend, your partner or a family member, you feel that others are making wrong judgments of value about you (or about the subject in particular)? This is because the people around you can take sides or be based on preconceptions.
- The psychologist, on the other hand, does not “actively listen” to your problems, but analyzes your way of expressing yourself, your language, your gestures and your reactions.
- This way he can assess the situation and give you a professional point of view without qualifying your conduct.
4. You will get another opinion
Therapists have studied to be able to offer their patients different opinions, values or points of view from a more “objective” angle. That is, without emotions or taboos in between, as could happen with your best friend.
- You can get an explanation from a different perspective and that will help you act differently next time.
- The psychologist is not emotionally involved with you and, therefore, his perspective is broader.
- It will be very useful for you to move forward, modify negative behaviors and be comfortable with yourself.
5. Talking will do you good
On many occasions the psychologist remains silent and lets the patient realize the error or the particular situation on his own. Putting emotions into words is essential and that is achieved by talking.
Letting the tears flow, the anger dissipating or the anxiety reducing depends on each one … and what we express in that space reserved only for us.
6. challenges you
Going to therapy is like talking to the mirror, only the feedback is not always what we want to hear. A therapist will not tell you the same as your loved ones, and that is reason enough to consult him.
He will not agree with you 100% of the time or take your side in every situation.
So you yourself can find a solution to your problem, a way to unblock a trauma or to get around an obstacle. You will challenge yourself to improve, go further, and move on.
7. You will have tools to act
Basically, a psychologist does not tell you what to do, but helps you to find yourself the methods to achieve a goal.
As a first step, by identifying what is happening to you, then by making friends with the situation and, finally, by acting accordingly.
Going to the psychologist is an excellent idea, even when no trauma from the past haunts us every day. You may not think you have enough problems, but the truth is that you can always improve as a person thanks to therapy.
