Posted by SLS on December 28, 2015, at 6:34:44
In reply to Re: Brain development and CBT, posted by baseball55 on December 27, 2015, at 19:41:24
> I think people can change and grow at any age, with help and support. I go to AA and see people come in mid-60's and become totally different people. If you're willing and want to change, therapy works. If you're not willing or define yourself as beyond hope, then nothing will help. You'll just stay on this endless quest for meds to make everything all right. And, even under the best of circumstances, meds don't make everything all right.
Meds, when they work, can totally change someone's world, but doesn't always change the person inside. That takes work. Meds make that work much easier. Sometimes psychotherapy can accelerate this process. One must also acknowledge that mental illness usually leaves psychological and psychosocial damage it its wake. This must be cleaned up somehow to allow for a more positive movement in life.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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