> 1. ERP is actively uncomfortable, that is the point. But there is a delicate balance to the level of discomfort.
Strong emotions can override reason (and wrong reason can create strong emotions that create tight loops/patterns one cannot escape), and there's no better way to train yourself out of a pattern then by rehearsing fighting the pattern and overcoming it.
One could be excused into thinking that that's all there should be about psychotherapy, but there exist meta-loops that spawn bad loops ad infinitum and you can spend a lot of time fighting the bad thing that can be seen and not understand why no real life progress can be made.
So for me, there are many many successful point therapies, and much much fewer higher level successful therapies where chatgpt or low skill therapists won't really help.
> So for me, there are many many successful point therapies, and much much fewer higher level successful therapies where chatgpt or low skill therapists won't really help.
I definitely agree. I think I was very fortunate to find someone who specialised in and only did ERP and had a lot of experience. I hear a lot of stories in support groups of well-meaning therapists making things worse. The closest I came to killing myself was after three sessions of psychodynamic therapy (after getting sick of a lack of progress with CBT). All of that therapy was before I understood that I was suffering from OCD.
Strong emotions can override reason (and wrong reason can create strong emotions that create tight loops/patterns one cannot escape), and there's no better way to train yourself out of a pattern then by rehearsing fighting the pattern and overcoming it.
One could be excused into thinking that that's all there should be about psychotherapy, but there exist meta-loops that spawn bad loops ad infinitum and you can spend a lot of time fighting the bad thing that can be seen and not understand why no real life progress can be made.
So for me, there are many many successful point therapies, and much much fewer higher level successful therapies where chatgpt or low skill therapists won't really help.