The Emotional Release In Group Therapy

By Charles Murphy


The thing about human bodies is that they are breakable, infinitely so. One wrong step, even just a half inch mistake, can totally break a leg. Totally random, totally stupid, and totally possible. So much so that it happen basically every single day. However, as fragile as bodies are, minds are even more so. But when those minds break, they can be put back together. The fractures can be mended, but it takes help, which may come in the form of group therapy Colorado.

Therapy is talking. That is what it is. It is speaking to a professional, opening up about anything and everything of bother, and then maybe the therapist will offer a solution. Then maybe the problem that drove a person to therapy in the first place can get itself solved.

Group therapy is just like the regular kind. Except in a group setting. A bunch of people sit around, sometimes in a circle, and then share their feelings, emotionally unload to each other in essence. There will sometimes be free coffee and donuts, or some kind of snack item. They can be found mostly in recreation centers or in church basements.

Now, one of things that compel an individual to seek such help is alcoholism. This is no laughing matter. It can destroy all kinds of lives, and even end them. Still, some alcoholics can still passably function, be some semblance of normal. But the need to drink can be all consuming.

When most people think of an addict, they think of someone that takes drugs. Mostly because people with alcoholism are not called addicts. No, a person like that would be called an alcoholic. But drugs may be even more destructive than alcohol, not the least of which is because many of them tend to be illegal. An alcoholic can still function, but some drugs are so addictive that a person who is afflicted with addiction may be so consumed by their affliction that nothing else will matter to them.

Of course, addiction is not the only reason people seek out counseling. Grief is one of the most profoundly destructive things that can happen to an individual. Once it comes, it can infect everything else. When it comes, it can weigh everything else down, turn colors into empty shades of gray. Being around people who understand it, those who have gone through that same pain, will know how it feels and maybe they can all help each other get through.

Now, PTSD can also require counseling. Again, the natural empathy and social drive makes it so that opening up in a group setting can be very helpful. While most soldiers will never be anywhere near a battlefield, for every single combatant, there are at least ten logistics personnel who stay at the base, those that do will understand it in a way that no one else can.

But talking is not all that is done. Sometimes, the people who seek help are made to do activities. Little things, like maybe keeping a journal, or maybe even some form of arts and crafts.

The world is not fair. It never has been. Bad things can happen to anyone and everyone. But there are ways to find a way out of the hole.




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