Therapy is a useful tool that helps individuals with various issues they may be experiencing. Therapy sometimes can be mistaken as only talking about what is going on, however, it is much more than that. Therapy is effective in helping people cope and manage their mental health conditions and issues they may be experiencing. Not only do those with mental health conditions benefit from therapy, but so do those without a medical problem.

Here are a few reasons on why you should give therapy a chance:

You are going through a transition or change

A transition or change can be anything in your life such as a moving, career or even getting married. These are just a few, but great examples on how they may be challenging. Therefore, going to therapy will allow you to have assistance with the change and be able to transition more smoothly emotionally and mentally.

Having thoughts of hurting yourself

Self-harm and suicide are serious thoughts that are life-threatening and preventable when assisted. If you have thoughts about harming yourself or someone else, it is imperative that you connect with a therapist in order to identify patterns and negative cycles that are negatively impacting you in order to change the patterns or decrease the intensity. A therapist will be able to be a strong source of support and provide valuable feedback while also planning for your safety. Please call the national suicide hotline at 1-800-273-8255 if you ever have thoughts of harming yourself or anyone else.

You will learn new things about yourself & become more self-aware

Therapy is a place where you will learn new things about yourself such as the way you think and why you may be thinking in a certain way. You may come to realize things in your past that may be manifesting itself in a whole new way. You will be able to understand the meaning behind your actions, coping mechanisms and patterns. Therapy gives you a chance to face your feelings that you may not have had the chance to recognize before nor deal with. These new recognitions will be able to provide you a new direction.

You are likely to be repressing more than you think

Many times you may go through a difficult emotional situation or even a crisis and feel that you need help. However, once that feeling fades away, it is likely to feel that you can handle it and no longer need help. What happens is that really you may be ignoring the issue and refuse to talk about it which will then negatively affect you physically, mentally and emotionally. When you repress issues that have not been dealt with, it can result to affecting those around you as you may begin to fee irritable around others that most likely has nothing to do with them and more to do with an underlying problem. Therefore, understanding the roots of the problem you are experiencing allows you to solve them and free yourself.

Feeling as if you have lost control

Therapy is a great place to learn coping skills for various emotions that you are experiencing that may be impacting on how you react. Feeling like you lost control can mean different things such as partaking in risky behavior that you feel you have no control over or even abusive behavior that you feel you can’t control. More than likely this ends up turning into a cycle that you learn to deal with. Therapy can help assist with how to break the cycle while also learning coping skills for the emotions that contribute to how you react.

Overall, therapy has benefits that can assist you in your journey. Therapy can help you to unlock patterns that you may not have known were there or why they are there. Therapy is a positive way to talk about anything you want in a safe place and safe way where you are able to process your thoughts, emotions and make positive changes that you see fit.