When it comes to treatments for mental illness, often patients are provided with the options of medication and/or talk therapy. For certain individuals and for certain mental health conditions, therapy is often the standard of care, however access to these treatments can be extremely challenging. Not only are therapy services offered by the public system riddled with long wait lists and often limited to group therapy rather than one-on-one sessions due to high demand, but private therapy, while increasingly available, can be extremely expensive. The Guardian recently talked to a number of young professionals about their experiences in psychotherapy and asked for their opinions on whether they thought therapy was "worth it". You can read more about their thoughts here: "Is Therapy Worth It?"
"I do find it helpful and I do find it important, but personally for me, there’s always this feeling – even when I have a great relationship with my therapist – I find it a bit strange that I have to pay someone to talk to me,” he says. “It just feels very exploitative in a way, because it’s paying for attention. It feels that way to me.”
"When you are in the state of mind where you realize you might need help, you probably need it right now. And it takes a lot of time. It takes a lot of time to get an appointment. It takes a lot of time to find the right person,” she says."
"With a therapist, that conversation is all about you. You get in there and you are not responsible for hurting his feelings. … With your friends, you are censoring yourself to make sure that they like you. You are censoring yourself because you know your friends’ issues and you don’t want to exacerbate their own issues that they might have."
"I do find it helpful and I do find it important, but personally for me, there’s always this feeling – even when I have a great relationship with my therapist – I find it a bit strange that I have to pay someone to talk to me,” he says. “It just feels very exploitative in a way, because it’s paying for attention. It feels that way to me.”
"When you are in the state of mind where you realize you might need help, you probably need it right now. And it takes a lot of time. It takes a lot of time to get an appointment. It takes a lot of time to find the right person,” she says."
"With a therapist, that conversation is all about you. You get in there and you are not responsible for hurting his feelings. … With your friends, you are censoring yourself to make sure that they like you. You are censoring yourself because you know your friends’ issues and you don’t want to exacerbate their own issues that they might have."
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