Posted by Jubei on May 5, 2004, at 19:21:37
In reply to Re: Nothing Helps, posted by griswald on May 5, 2004, at 19:07:06
Thats really good. It is some peoples opinion in psychology that normal talk therapy dosen't work becasue it dosen't let you get in touch with emotions in the right way. In other words, you can talk about something that made you sad, but true healing comes from crying actually, or you could merely talk about someone who did something bad to you, and it may get you angry but physically hitting a punching bag is what really lets you get in touch with your feelings and express them. It is widely believed that many psychosomatic symptoms are caused by suppressed anger. You are actually supposed to get angry believe it or not. It is part of the fight or flight response, and animals do this all the time( It is believed that the reason why animals never seem to develop mental illness even though they go through a lot of trauma in the wild is because they never grow up in a society that looks down on emotion expression like anger. They readily defend themselves or run when they have to. Interestingly enough though, there are quite a number of animals that develop mental illness in captivity becasue they are taught to suppress many things). Anyway, I know this board is for medicine discussion, but I am so curious as to methods that can help heal metal illness withouht medication as I have mental illness being depression, and drugs haven't helped much.
> I've been thinking of going back to therapy, but it didn't really help much. I'll try it again.
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