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Noeru
5 months ago

I had a social phobia for years.

And yes, I’ve treated myself. By asking me for some sort of Siruations I was afraid of. That’s how it’s gone more and more. I don’t have this anymore.

Disclaimer: Self-therapy is always associated with the risk of making it worse. That’s why I like to try, but with something small. If you can’t face fear at all, you need a behavioral therapy.

Reigel
5 months ago
Reply to  Noeru

Behavior therapy is symptom shift. Through VT I could meet with other people, but after that I had a eating disorder that I had not before. And human contact was still not possible because it is not treated therapeutically. A VT looks like a machine that should behave differently. It is only about the patient beinghaved as the therapist or the health insurance wants. As I felt and whether I had feelings at all, my therapists did not care.

Noeru
5 months ago
Reply to  Reigel

Just because you’ve had bad experiences, you can’t project this on a whole type of therapy and say that it doesn’t work.

It’s with me. And it was never about adapting me. It was about confrontation, anxiety to learn and to realize that you can defeat them.

Reigel
4 months ago

Yes, that’s exactly what I meant. This is not a cure in the sense of a dissolution of the cause, but only a fight against symptom. The underlying cause remains and finds another way to appear. This is symptom shift.

adelaide196970
5 months ago

go away with exercise. At the beginning it falls hard, with time becomes habit. Everyday life requires something like that.