A Practical Guide to Psychological Disorders No. 4 —– How to cooperate with doctors for good psychological treatment?

  In order to cooperate with the doctor in psychotherapy, the patient must be prepared for the following. First, it is necessary to leave a fixed time for psychotherapy. This is very important for successful psychotherapy, because, within a certain period of time, exerting a constant therapeutic and psychological influence is itself an essential factor for psychotherapy to be effective, and if time is not guaranteed, there is no way to talk about treatment. If the time is not guaranteed, the treatment will not be effective. The treatment will not be effective if the time is always changed. This is a resistance to treatment and change. Usually the frequency of psychotherapy in 1 to 5 hours per week, individual can even reach 10 hours, the total course of treatment, depending on the therapy, the length of time varies, behavioral therapy can be a few months, psychoanalytic therapy requires hundreds of hours, usually take several years, individual serious, may require lifelong counseling. Therefore, it is important to make a good time schedule before deciding to treat.  The second preparation, and the most important one, is that one must be prepared to endure the pain of the treatment and change process. Whether it is behavioral therapy, Morita therapy, or Morinda therapy, during the treatment process, the patient must suffer some anxiety and pain, and must face, accept, and endure his or her own internal conflicts, which cannot be avoided by any psychotherapy. It is equivalent to the inevitable pain and blood loss in surgical operations. These pains can even exceed the pain caused to the patient by the psychological disease itself at a certain stage of treatment. It can be said that “little pain, big pain, and no pain”. Psychotherapy without pain can only be considered as painkilling injections and anesthetics, and the real treatment does not take place. Psychotherapy that is accompanied by pain and change is the real psychotherapy. Patients who do not have the courage to bear the pain of treatment cannot benefit from true psychotherapy.  After the above-mentioned preparations are more adequate, it is time to proceed with the treatment with the doctor. The cooperation in treatment includes many aspects, the most important of which, is to be as real as possible, to express and express oneself authentically in the treatment. In fact, usually the doctor hardly demands too much from the patient, as long as the contact with the doctor is on time, everything can be listened to, and listening to nature is the best and the most difficult to achieve ideal state of treatment.