http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/study-suggests-that-sometimes-hope-can-hurt/ Exploring Healthy Psychotherapy Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:06:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/study-suggests-that-sometimes-hope-can-hurt/#comment-24909 nathan Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:49:07 +0000 http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=5686#comment-24909 I have to agree with what Henrigues said... anyway the person will eventually know what problem he/she actually has and will have to face it...there is no reason to first say stuff that is around the actual idea and then indirectly say it... I feel it does more harm than good...thats because it gives the person more anxiousness and probably more reason to panic! I have to agree with what Henrigues said… anyway the person will eventually know what problem he/she actually has and will have to face it…there is no reason to first say stuff that is around the actual idea and then indirectly say it… I feel it does more harm than good…thats because it gives the person more anxiousness and probably more reason to panic!

]]> http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/study-suggests-that-sometimes-hope-can-hurt/#comment-24900 Henrigues Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:33:13 +0000 http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=5686#comment-24900 Sometimes giving false hope is more damaging than breaking the news at once... it is better to say out the truth than to beat around the bush. the person will anyway get to know of it eventually... Sometimes giving false hope is more damaging than breaking the news at once… it is better to say out the truth than to beat around the bush. the person will anyway get to know of it eventually…

]]> http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/study-suggests-that-sometimes-hope-can-hurt/#comment-24895 JUSTIN Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:11:34 +0000 http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=5686#comment-24895 This is pretty confusing... I don't quite understand how hopelessness would help a person who has to realize of something very negative about himself. This is pretty confusing… I don’t quite understand how hopelessness would help a person who has to realize of something very negative about himself.

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