The word psychotherapy comes from Ancient Greek. It is formed by the combination of the word psyche, meaning spirit, soul, breath, and the word therapia, meaning healing, medical treatment.
Psychotherapy is a healing method based on the relationship between the therapist and the patient. Psychotherapy is used to treat a variety of psychological disorders and emotional difficulties. The goal of psychotherapy is to control or eliminate disturbing symptoms. In this way, the aim is for the patient to be more functional. However, psychotherapy is also a method used to feel balanced, healthy and to live a meaningful life.
Recently, people are becoming more aware and making efforts to improve themselves. For this reason, today, psychological support has become a method that people use to solve their psychological problems.
Nowadays, the increase in health problems, biological and physiological changes, stress, boredom and family problems caused by city life. As kinship ties weaken and in a society that begins to become individualized, individuals' need for psychological support is increasing rapidly. Just as we did not see psychology as a science until 15, 20 years ago, we also perceived going to a psychologist differently. As a result, we can say that according to the studies and the latest findings, the number of people going to a psychologist or psychiatrist is increasing day by day.
So what if we should go to a psychologist in every situation? Does everyone need a psychologist? The answer to this question is actually very clear. A person can receive support if he/she wishes and consents, there is no harm in this. But there are some situations that make it necessary for a person to seek psychological support. These situations mostly result when the person's functional emotions and thoughts begin to deteriorate and some unusual emotions and behaviors emerge. The distinguishing criterion is whether the person can overcome stress. In cases where the person cannot cope, deterioration in the quality of life, damage to family and social relations, adverse effects on work performance, etc. There may be situations. In these cases, we should definitely get professional support for our mental health.
Another situation is that chronic problems (health problems) lead to emotional disturbances. In such cases, the person has to deal with both the ongoing problems and the difficulties brought by the disorder and the limitations it causes. In cases where it is thought that there is no way out and accompanied by psychiatric disorders, serious losses may occur
We must seek psychological support in the following cases:
Depression lasting 15 days or more, When you want to get out of situations such as depression, demoralization,
When you feel that your energy for life has run out,
To re-examine yourself in all your basic existential problems and confusions about identity,
To get rid of obsessive thoughts and behaviors,
To cope with all kinds of fears and anxiety that poison, hinder or block your life,
To improve the quality of your life, to move on to a productive and productive life. ,
When you want to deal with problems related to attention and concentration,
When you want to know yourself better and more closely and discover your potentials,
To solve problems related to your married life. ,
When you want to increase your self-confidence, realize yourself and achieve success in life,
To solve problems related to children and adolescents,
To solve all kinds of problems you experience regarding relationships. ,
To improve the quality of relations with the opposite sex,
To receive counseling before and after divorce,
For the solution of all questions and problems related to sexuality,
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Medication or Psychotherapy?
There may be confusion in people's minds about whether they will get better with medication or therapy.
In today's society, medication treatment is not very favorably received. There is a lot of prejudice and even information pollution from left and right. Although the Turkish society is one of the societies with the most prejudice against drug treatment, we also advise people, patients and relatives of patients who are on drug treatment to stop taking the drug. In this type of psychiatric treatments, the patient- When the client quits or starts taking the medication as he wishes, it causes more distress in the long run and prolongs the treatment process.
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