When they arrive for the consultation, 75% of my clients have been waiting until the last moment to take the step of consulting a psychologist.
The last moment is the one where the person is so exhausted from suffering that they no longer have the amount of energy necessary to carry out the strategy that the psychologist offers, to solve the problem that has led them to consult.
To this day, Only 25% of people go to the psychologist as a preventive measure
It is in that percentage of 75% that the people who will develop a disorder as a consequence of enduring the stressful situation for too long a period of time are found.
That is, the set of symptoms sustained over time results in a symptomatic entrenchment that is called a disorder.
What are disorders?
Disorders are sets of symptoms that last more than three months and which have already established themselves in the person’s functioning system.
When I ask people who come for consultation why they have waited so long to do it, the answers I receive are in the following order… “I wanted to do it myself”, “I didn’t want to ask for help, since I have never needed to do it.” “…, “I don’t like to tell my problems to a stranger”… etc.
That is to say, All of them are responses that denote static beliefs and the presence of skepticism which results in them not daring to trust the professional regarding emotional issues, nor in their own improvement… perhaps at that moment they do not even believe that they can be helped.
After a first visit, the psychologist stops becoming a stranger and after the professional’s initial staging of his or her skills such as empathy, understanding and active listening, it is then that he or she begins to occupy a place of reference and relevance, in the personal development of the person who consults.
Psychology serves to save a person time.
Psychology and the psychologist allow a person to think, during a limited period of time in their life, in a methodical way and dedicates himself to assessing, together with a specialist in personal growth, what is happening in his environment and in himself, identifying symptoms, problems and looking for the best way to resolve conflicts that have occurred throughout the client’s life. appeared more or less recently.
Psychology allows you to resolve emotional suffering more quickly.
The simple act of organizing thoughts and emotions with a mental health professional clarifies enough to begin to glimpse some hope in the face of discomfort.
Subsequently, the planning and decision about the circumstances that are occurring and that must be modified, this time successfully, in the life of the person who consults, will end up reorganizing the discomfort in a short space of time.
Thinking is one of the most difficult jobs that exist, just as Henry Ford said, you have to dedicate time and effort to this task, and it also requires creativity. However, creativity is a capacity that can be perfectly trained.
This is why carrying out the work of thinking, in a moment of mental saturation or stress, becomes an unattainable task.
When a client goes to a psychologist’s office looking for a solution to get out of the state they are in, what the psychologist will prescribe will not yet be able to be applied, because the patient’s strength in relation to his or her abilities is diminished.
During the number of sessions that the person requires, The psychologist must provide accompaniment work with the client until he can recover his abilities and skills, and from there generate together, psychologist and client, the expectation that improvement is a possible and probable option.
This absence of expectation is inherent to the client’s current situation; it is part of the psychologist’s work to increase said expectation and initiate a process of personal improvement, which resolves the client’s situation, much earlier than it would have been, without the application of the psychology to your circumstance.
With the psychologist, solutions are developed before
