When you feel lonely or want to talk to someone at some point, you may want to seek counseling. Zhao Chengzhi, Department of Clinical Psychology, Beijing Huilongguan Hospital When your work, life, or emotional stress is too much, such as a lost love, too many challenges at work, colleagues getting along poorly, business partners losing trust, etc., and you feel a bit uncomfortable in your chest, pain in your heart area (but no physical problems can be found at the hospital), anxiety, easy to get angry, depressed mood, and insomnia, then you need psychological counseling. When you have problems in your family marital relationship, such as communication difficulties between husband and wife, sexual dysfunction between husband and wife, and dealing with divorce, then you obviously need psychological counseling as well. When your parent-child communication with your own children is not going well, your children’s academic performance is declining, they are confronting you, etc., then you might want to bring your children along to counseling. Maybe you are not troubled in any way, you have plenty of food and clothing, your family is happy, you already have a certain quality of life, but you feel that you need some spiritual growth or review, then maybe you can attend counseling. For whatever reason, if you feel depressed by some bad mood for more than two weeks and this situation continues, then you need to attend counseling; when you feel anxious about some specific objects and behaviors, such as difficulty in interacting with people, fear of dogs and cats, or when you face some social scenes, such as the square, the mall, or no specific object scenes, you feel anxious and even When certain behaviors, such as washing your hands or turning off the gas, show more than ten repetitions, or when your thinking about a certain thing repeatedly and stubbornly appears and you cannot get rid of it. Such a situation has been going on for some time, then you need psychological counseling. When you are troubled by some sexual problems, such as masturbation problems during puberty, exposure of sexual organs, obtaining clothes of the opposite sex, etc., then it is recommended that you attend counseling. Substance dependence can also be a reason to attend counseling, such as smoking. For food disorders, such as overeating followed by vomiting, or anorexia, it is obviously wise to actively participate in counseling. If you continue to be frequently disturbed by memories of these events, or even have recurring nightmares, crying, etc., one month after an unexpected event such as a loss of a spouse, molestation, hostage crisis, divorce, natural disaster, threat, etc., it may be post-traumatic stress disorder, and it is also advisable to attend counseling if necessary. If you are receiving medication on the hospital side for these reasons, but you rarely get talkative counseling, then it is recommended that you come for talkative counseling along with your medication. This way you will get better faster and more solidly. When you have been experiencing frustrations in your relationships, sometimes for reasons, sometimes not, and you feel that your personality is a bit out of character which makes you confused or distressed, for example, you often have serious suspicions about whether people say bad things about you, or you are afraid to interact with others because of criticism at any time, or you often turn against your close friends, or you often threaten close people with self-harm and extreme events, or you feel that your emotions often flood your life for no reason. Then you may need long-term psychoanalytic counseling.