SirFraggles t1_iu6isdt wrote on October 28, 2022 at 10:41 PM

Reply to comment by zzzojka in TIL Chester Bennington, lead vocalist for Linkin Park and Stone Temple Pilots, hung himself in 2017 because of depression stemming from SA as a child 😔 by rpaul9578

I feel like people neglect the realization that therapy takes work. It takes years of really hard, emotional, grueling work. And in fact, therapy can take a lot more work than just trying to ignore the thing(s) that are making you miserable. And it has to arrive at the right time. Sometimes it comes too little and too late for the weight and trauma of the things that came before it. Therapy IS the solution, but it has a LOT of caveats.

I say all of this as someone who has been in therapy for nearly a decade now--and it was a really, really close call between which would win: therapy or suicide.

zzzojka t1_iu6mp5f wrote on October 28, 2022 at 11:13 PM

I'm glad it helped you, but it's not like that for everyone and isn't a guarantee even with hard work over the years. People who never reached healing they desired did not work less hard that you. Besides years of therapy I have education in psychology.