Ever try reframing how you view everything?

[Weebster]

I continue to live because I have attachments. These attachments are more painful than positive. If I recognize them as just tethers (and not people or things) keeping me in this painful life, then maybe I can find the strength to just die.

 

[Achlys]

Never successfully. One of my therapists used to bring something like this up very regularly. Said I needed to look at my situation with a set of 'fresh eyes'.

 

[Weebster]

Never successfully. One of my therapists used to bring something like this up very regularly. Said I needed to look at my situation with a set of 'fresh eyes'.

Therapists are useless.

 

[Achlys]

Therapists are useless.

Playing devil's advocate: I think it's a stretch to say therapists are useless across the board. They have their place and there are those they help.

Personally, I found them a waste of money most of the time, though. Each week, I was encouraged to talk about how I felt. Problem is, how I felt rarely changed each week. I'd begin each session with, "Unsurprisingly, still depressed," or something along those lines. The rest of the time was often spent finding trivialities to talk about to fill the silence. Small talk, basically...

 

[WorthlessTrash]

Therapists can be helpful depending on the person, but therapy is not for everyone. Sometimes any advice your therapist gives you, you can find on a google search. Other times you can use them to vent to, but that will not change anything.

 

[FuneralCry]

The only thing that would make ctb easier for me would be having a peaceful and reliable way to exit this world, there is nothing else keeping me here apart from the fact that ctb is so difficult. I want to leave everything behind, everyday I think about how meaningless everything is. I do not need to change how I view everything.