On a more personal level, this creeping reactionary tendency against psychological intervention is starting to get to me. Good therapy and SSRIs have saved my life on two occasions now, and I am unable to function without them due to the severe bouts of OCD which arise when I am unmedicated. Of course, it’s none of my business if this is the specif... See more

CBT, which has since become enormously popular. It claims to be evidence-based, and therefore highly effective, especially for anxiety-related issues. CBT practitioners often insist that traditional psychoanalysis remains a lengthy, expensive form of therapy with highly ambiguous, difficult-to-measure results. On the other hand, those preferring th

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