10 signs that tell you when to go to the psychologist
Some people think that going to psychological therapy is a sign of weakness. However, it is a brave decision that can help you to be a more emotionally intelligent person and prepared to face the situations that arise in your day-to-day life.
Psychotherapists are trained professionals who provide you with tools so that you can improve your emotional well-being and your quality of life.
How does the psychologist help you?
And it is that making the decision to attend psychological therapy can change your life for the better, and gives you the opportunity to grow personally and emotionally. It can also help you overcome past conflicts or help you restore balance to your life.
The psychotherapy sessions are confidential, so you can feel comfortable and express your feelings and emotions as well as the experiences or thoughts that concern you.
The benefits of attending psychological therapy are as follows:
- It provides you with tools so that you can overcome conflicts that can appear in your life and reduce its impact and discomfort
- Helps you improve your interpersonal relationships and your relationship with your partner
- Improve your emotional health and your mental well-being
- Allows you to overcome problems at work
- Improve your self-knowledge and empowers you in the face of life
- It allows you to know, test and modify those maladaptive and dysfunctional beliefs
- It allows you to overcome the most varied problems: stress, fears, anxiety, depression, etc.
- It allows you to find balance in your life
When to go to psychological therapy
Making the decision to go to psychotherapy is not easy, largely due to the prejudices that exist around this practice. But psychotherapy is a very effective treatment for many of life's problems, and there are many studies supporting its use.
Unfortunately, too often people let problems get the better of them before they get help. Since there are some cases in which it is necessary or highly recommended to seek psychological help, Below you can find a list with the signs that tell you that you should go to the psychologist:
1. The past constantly accompanies you
Grief over the death of a loved one, a breakup, etc., are difficult situations to overcome and that can affect us for a relatively long period of time. Sometimes we think that these feelings or thoughts will go away on their own, but this is not always the case. When this pain and discomfort becomes chronic, it is necessary to seek psychological help.
You can read our article "Grief therapy: psychological help to cope with goodbye”To understand why these traumatic events are not always easy to overcome.
2. You feel great discomfort, suffering or are sad most of the time
These traumatic situations can impair the normal functioning of a person's life, and suffering can become something that the individual lives with on a daily basis. To some extent it is normal that, after some negative event, people suffer a huge feeling of emptiness, pain and confusion, as it is part of the adaptation process.
Now, when these negative reactions last a long time, it can turn into something pathological. Fortunately, this sadness and inability to move forward can be overcome with the help of a psychologist.
3. You don't see the future clear
While the past can haunt you and cause you suffering, it can also be devastating not having a clear future. Lack of self-knowledge and zero expectations for the times to come affect motivation and general well-being. Psychologists can provide tools to get to know you better and to know what your desires, priorities and your talents; and they can offer you the knowledge you need to realistically design and plan your future.
4. Existential crisis
The existential crisis can appear at any time in life. It occurs when a person has mental schemes that no longer serve him or are maladaptive, so he feels that he does not know the path he must follow in life, nor can he visualize the goals he must pursue to achieve self-realization personal.
This can cause a lot of suffering and can lead to psychological distress if the situation is not dealt with correctly. Psychologists can help a person to find their own path in life, to restructure their expectations, to accept themselves yourself and develop more effective and adaptive coping strategies that help you empower yourself in your day-to-day life.
5. You have no control over your life
Perhaps you have suffered from anxiety for a long time and have realized that you have no control over your life: It is affecting you at work, in your relationship with others, when it comes to finding a partner... You may have tried to reverse the situation by exercising, reading self-help books, or talking with friends, but the situation has not changed.
In these cases, you should seek the help of a psychologist so that you can acquire a series of tools that allow you to find balance in your life again.
6. Negative thoughts constantly
If you have noticed for a long time that you have thoughts that prevent you from living your life normally. For example, you are constantly thinking about catastrophic situations, you are obsessed with some idea or you have some kind of fixation, psychological therapy uses very useful techniques to solve this type of problems.
7. You feel great aggressiveness and anger towards the environment
You may feel an aggressive impulse or great anger towards someone or towards the environment in general. In some cases this is a typical reaction of the frustration that you feel, and it can be a way to avoid assuming your share of the blame, for example, regarding a bad decision you have made. Psychologists can help you better understand what is happening to you, be more realistic and accept yourself and the situations that affect you.
8. You are not okay with your partner
Relationships are not always easy, and in many cases they do not go through good times. Do not forget that, as in any interpersonal relationship, each member of the couple has their own vision of the world, their tastes, their needs and even her insecurities.
Unfortunately, few people seek psychological help to solve problems in a love relationship or marriage. The psychologist can help improve communication, learn to negotiate, reach agreements and learn tools to overcome difficulties in the relationship, coexistence and problems sexual.
- Related article: "7 questions to know if you are okay with your partner”
9. You feel stressed
Stress, especially at work, is one of the most frequent phenomena today, and can seriously affect psychological and physical health. Stress significantly alters our lives and affects our thinking and behavior, causing physiological, physical, cognitive, emotional and behavioral reactions.
If you are experiencing stress and notice that it is affecting your day to day, fortunately, psychologists can help you put an end to this problem.
- Related article: "8 essential tips to reduce work stress”
10. You have difficulty sleeping
Unfortunately, psychological disorders associated with inadequate rest are very common. And it is surprising to us, because we live in a society very different from that of previous decades, where everything is going very fast and technology has entered our lives considerably. Bad habits, rushing, schedules that do not favor natural rest and other variables can cause that we rest far fewer hours than would be necessary, which has a negative effect on our lives.
According to data from the Spanish Society of Neurology (SEN), 25% of the Spanish adult population suffers from insomnia. However, there are other sleep disorders such as sleepwalking, night terrors or behavioral disorders associated with REM sleep that affect the well-being and health of the person who does it suffers. Thanks to psychological therapy it is possible to overcome different sleep disorders.
Go to a psychological assistance center that can help you improve your well-being
If you feel identified with any of the previous points and you have begun to notice that the situation in which you find yourself is great and is affecting your day to day, you should consider the need to go to a specialized center.
There are centers that, in addition, have an online psychology service, so you can perform therapy sessions from the comfort of your home. These centers are specialized in treating all kinds of problems: depression, anxiety, phobias, sleep problems, relationship problems, sexual problems, eating problems, substance abuse, difficulties in coping with the stages of motherhood or retirement, schizophrenia and problems associated with aging, among others.
These centers can offer you solutions and can help you in the difficulties you are going through. Now, although going to a psychologist is usually associated with a serious problem, many people seek psychological help for other reasons: improve social skills, learn to know each other better, maximize personal development or improve communication with the partner.
