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Looking for Validation? Try Psychotherapy
It can change your life
Everyone needs validation. We all need someone else to recognize and accept our internal experiences as valid, no matter how different they are. This happens when the other person you speak with listens without judgment to your story.
Psychotherapy is where most people find validation. This piece will focus on validation in psychotherapy and how it can change your life.
Is Psychotherapy Helpful?
A paper published in the early 1990s stated they could find no difference between subjects who received treatment and those who did not. Ever since, much
research in response to that paper has shown that 75% of those who receive therapy show some benefit, with 91% stating they are satisfied with the quality of therapy they received, with 84% saying they are satisfied with their progress.
However, after having said all of that, psychotherapy has its drawbacks. For one, it can dredge up long-forgotten memories that might not need to be unburied. The emotional turmoil that one goes through when reliving a fantom from the past is palpable.
Therapy helps to relieve the client’s symptoms and functioning, and studies have shown it can reduce disability and mortality and reduce the need for…
