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Originally posted by PhoenixAzul
I refuse and I mean REFUSE to go to a shrink...any person you have to pay to listen to and act like they care about you...nope, won't do it.
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Wow, who told you that?
A "shrink" is someone who's educated and trained to be able to identify patterns. Patterns of behavior, thinking, etc. Which is why they can help *so much* with certain kinds of depression, eating disorders, etc. Often (say, with depression) you get so off-track with how you're thinking and reacting to the world around you that you "forget" you didn't used to be miserable all the time. A therapist/counselor/whatever can help you identify ways to change that.
Of course if you have a chemical imbalance in the brain, this will only be so effective.
sidenote: I saw an interview with Tony Robbins once and he said something that I thought was really great:
exercise. He maintained that it changes your whole outlook, makes you more aggressive (in a good way!) and can have a huge effect on how you run your life, basically.
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