Comments on: Young Adults Mostly Decline Therapy for Mistreatment http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/young-adults-mostly-decline-therapy-for-mistreatment/ Exploring Healthy Psychotherapy Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:34:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Elizabeth R. http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/young-adults-mostly-decline-therapy-for-mistreatment/comment-page-1/#comment-20799 Elizabeth R. Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:58:32 +0000 http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=3387#comment-20799 That was a good observation Jill. Even mentally healthy teens will reject help from anybody. It's the age when we think we know everything. I can understand why youngsters that do need help for mental health challenges won't take it. Teens want to fit in so badly and at the same time carve their own identity. The sad irony is for those same young adults, attending therapy or some kind of intervention program would help them achieve that faster rather than impeding them. That was a good observation Jill. Even mentally healthy teens will reject help from anybody. It’s the age when we think we know everything. I can understand why youngsters that do need help for mental health challenges won’t take it. Teens want to fit in so badly and at the same time carve their own identity.

The sad irony is for those same young adults, attending therapy or some kind of intervention program would help them achieve that faster rather than impeding them.

]]> By: Jill http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/young-adults-mostly-decline-therapy-for-mistreatment/comment-page-1/#comment-20792 Jill Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:04:06 +0000 http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=3387#comment-20792 No one ever really wants to believe that they were raised in an unhealthy environment, and I think that even as kids if you know that something is way off you still in your heart want to believe that your parents love you and are only doing the best for you, even when you do not understand what is going on. So it does not shock me that there would be young people in denial, who see therapy as being for someone else, something that they do not need. It is only when many of us become adults that we are able to realize just how screwed up we might be and how much we really need to ask for advice and help from others. No one ever really wants to believe that they were raised in an unhealthy environment, and I think that even as kids if you know that something is way off you still in your heart want to believe that your parents love you and are only doing the best for you, even when you do not understand what is going on. So it does not shock me that there would be young people in denial, who see therapy as being for someone else, something that they do not need. It is only when many of us become adults that we are able to realize just how screwed up we might be and how much we really need to ask for advice and help from others.

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