How has counseling specifically helped you?

Honestly therapy didnt really do anything for me that I hadnt already done for myself...the last time...originally though, therapy did some serious damage to me because i was forced to go, the therapists were terrible at what they did and treated me like I was insignificant etc etc....Because of those experiences I avoided therapy for a very long time...however in my mid 20s I started on my road to healing by myself so by the time I decided to get into therapy 3 yrs ago I had already made great progress...Luckily though the therapist I went to this time is fabulous and I stuck with it for 6 mths but had to stop becuase we couldnt afford for all 4 of us to go and I felt it was more important at that time for my husband and my two kids to get the help they needed...I do plan on goin back though after the holidays. There are issues that still need to be dealt with...I think the thing that helped me the most with her is the fact that she lets me talk and doesnt pass judgement on me which for me personally is key...

Counseling has helped provide life skills which through a variety of effects were not learnt while growing up... But as far as forgiving goes...no...but I except the facts and deal with the facts. Then get on with life knowing and not giving the perpretrators any power for what they did! Not angry but not forgiving either, as forgiving is a form of exceptance!

It's helped me learn that it was ok for me to think about what I wanted and not what everyone else's needs were before my own. I was very co-dependent and a big enabler and I broke from that with a lot of extensive therapy...

It has never helped me, as I suppose it is my fault. I did not want to bring up the painful events. It is easier to bury it.

My mom and dad went to a counselor when i was young and he involved us kids in the meeting. I took my kids to a counselor when they were little. MY son has ADD so he had one for that. But it only last for about six months. they said my kids didnt need any counseling.

Counselling is good for a lot of things. I need more of it I admit as I still have a lot of built up resentments and anger which is also bad for my health as I know. But when it comes to overcoming phobias, I am not sure how good counselling really is. I have tried it for my emetophobia and not sure what can really help that!

In the past I had been to a couple of counsellors and a group session, although they did help, I found a book by Dr.Phil called Self matters that seemed to help me more for some reason! and to this day will pick it up when there are times that I feel the need to remind myself of certain things! It is a great book!

Yes counseling specifically helped me. I lost a son and I went to a lady counseler about me feelings and yes she did help me. I will able to talk and tell her how I really felt.

I have never went to counseling. But I do feel it is something I need to do when I get the money. I have heard good things about counseling. A couple of my sisters have went and say it helps them. If anything to be able to talk it out while someone listens. Sometimes they say that is the best part of all.

I grew up in foster homes after being left on the sidewalk with my other three brothers as our parents drove away. They left us there for the Children's Aid Society to pick us up and couldn't even wait until they arrived. I had a horrible childhood was one foster home after another and they even split the four of us up so they could place us in homes easier. I feel that most foster parents, at least back then, only wanted the money provide to care for us, which the spent on themselves and I wore old clothes that didn't fit. But I never went to seek help as I had become very withdrawn. Now I am in my 50s and have learned to live with it. My wife is always saying how sorry she is for my childhood and I just smile. She is the best thing that has happened in my life and the next was the birth of our only child. Forgiveness isn't in the cards for me. In my mind they were adults and they don't deserve forgiveness for destroying a child. But saying all that negative stuff doesn't mean I have a bad life now, not at all. I am a very happy man.