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Alethia- I'm a psych major as well but I don't deal with any of the clinical or community stuff, it is all biological in my studies. I personally couldn't sit and listen to someone complain continually about how their life sucks, and have them not do anything about it. People do have all the answers within themselves, and therapists can help them organize their thoughts, but they can't "fix" them. I'd just tell the person they were an idiot for getting back together with a person that cheats on them and lets them treat them like garbage, and they need to leave them or quit complaining about the mess they put themselves in over and over. In fact I said this to someone this week about her boyfriend, if she was going to keep going back to him and complaining, I wasn't going to listen to her anymore.
I think most of them are a crock and just like most things in life people want a quick fix and all the answers without any work. In a psych class I had to find a self help book and present it to the class. I picked the worst one I could find. I find "What color is your parachute", "I'm OK, You're OK" and "Men are from Mars Women are from Venus" not worth my time.
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