Why People Avoid Therapy (2014 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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December 17, 2014
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| 0:00.0 | So I'm at a party the other night, and as I often do with these parties, I don't like to talk about my |
| 0:06.5 | career because people often talk to me in this much more different fashion that seems as though |
| 0:13.9 | they're afraid of me or something. So I like to avoid talking about my career. And so I'm at this party, |
| 0:19.1 | and these people don't know me and people are talking about various |
| 0:23.0 | different things. |
| 0:23.8 | And the conversation starts to get a bit interesting and some people are talking and one |
| 0:29.3 | person says, well, I never went to therapy because I didn't want to become dependent on my |
| 0:35.1 | therapist. |
| 0:36.1 | I mean, this isn't what she was saying, |
| 0:38.0 | but essentially this is what she was saying, |
| 0:40.0 | was that people who go to therapy are weak, |
| 0:42.9 | and therapists are just after your money, |
| 0:46.4 | and this person said she didn't want to become dependent on her therapist. |
| 0:50.9 | And I just found myself silently screaming because I've heard this so many times, and it just |
| 0:59.8 | makes no sense. Now, from the onset, I'll say, if someone doesn't want therapy, then great. And, |
| 1:08.2 | you know, for whatever reasons the person has, then great, of course. And of course, |
| 1:13.0 | it would seem that as a therapist myself, I have a biased opinion that everyone should be in therapy |
| 1:18.5 | all the time. You know, it's sort of like if you're a liposuction person, then you think everyone |
| 1:23.4 | needs liposuction. Or if you're a teeth whitener, then you think everyone's teeth are |
| 1:28.1 | too brown or something. So it's very convenient for me as a therapist to say everyone should be in |
| 1:34.8 | therapy. And I actually don't believe that. But when I hear someone say that they didn't want to go |
| 1:39.7 | to therapy because they didn't want to be dependent on their therapist, as if all therapy basically |
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