Going to psychological therapy is not for crazy people, if you experience discomfort or any symptoms of continuous anxiety, it is best to go to learn how to manage it.
According to the American Psychological Association, Psychotherapy or psychological therapy is a helpful tool to treat anxietydepression or any other mental problem.
It also helps people cope with relationship problems, job loss, stress, substance abuse, or other debilitating or tiring difficulties.
This tool applies scientifically valid procedures to create healthier and more effective habits and includes methodologies such as cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal and other types of conversational therapy.
However, What is psychological therapy or psychotherapy for?
According to Catalina Botero, coordinator of the team of psychologists at Porque Quiero Estar Bien, Psychological therapy helps people understand their disorder, condition or situation and generate strategies that they can use (at any time in their life) to manage the discomfort they may feel.
Benefits
Psychological therapy, as long as it is confidential, planned, has qualified personnel to direct it and is socially accepted by the patient, brings with it a significant number of benefits, such as:
- Behavioral changes that have marked the patient.
- Rapid behavior modifications.
- Transformations in interpersonal relationships.
- And personality restructuring.
Why is it beneficial to treat anxiety disorder with therapy?
The psychologist Catalina Botero concludes that:
“When anxiety disorder is not managed in time it can become a disabling condition.because The continuous presence of anxiety discomfort begins to make the person change situations in their daily lives. In this sense, it begins to affect your personal or family relationships, your work or academic performance and, in general, the way you interact with your environment.”
What other alternatives are there to treat anxiety disorder, besides medications or drugs?
“Currently there are different strategies, only psychotherapeutic, that have shown great effectiveness for the management of anxiety disorders. Research has even been done comparing: treatment with drugs, psychotherapy, mixed treatment (with medications and therapy) and what has been demonstrated is that, although all three are effective, in the long term, The one that is most sustainable and long-lasting is treatment with psychotherapy.”Botero points out.
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