I’d like to hear about people’s most successful approaches or styles (even if unconventional), that helped them to overcome or at least get their various struggles under control.
So for example, Sinclair Method (naltrexone) [baclofen adjuvant] --> problem drinking.
Quitting my full time job has been the best thing I ever did for my mental health.
What changed in your life?
For example: I don’t think most people can leave a full time job. But I can see people changing their life up to make part time work.
I moved into an off-grid RV. No more rent, power or trash bills. Then I realized my car was costing me more then it’s usefulness at a time when the used car market was exploding. So I sold that and got a couple fold up electric scooters that fit into the RV’s storage compartment. These changes have drastically reduced my expenses.
Taekwondo. Cooking. Creative projects. I’ve also done therapy on and off, 1-on-1 conversational therapy as well as Psychodrama in a group therapy setting. Therapy is nice but I wouldn’t say it is the thing that helped the most.
I have not yet attempted any Therapy. But as places are SOOO rare, and real deep psychological therapy takes often over 2 years, I dont believe this can work.
I had extremely intense, deep and healing experiences on Cannabis and LSD though. Cannabis was really bringing me to my feelings, subconsciousness, addictions, stress. LSD made me understand how my brain works a bit better.
Especially psychedelics are said to increade neuroplasticity, and they cause “crazy neuron firing”, to regions they normally dont do. This was extensively used in psychotherapeutic studies and also applocation, but then some stupid people where scared of it and banned it along with some other racistically motivated bans.
I firmly believe that psychedelic therapy, together with a retreat, nature, dancing, and so on, is the only real way one can heal.
Edit: this may not answer your question?
I don’t know their style actually. Some therapists have been more effective, and those have basically been the ones I most trusted to open up.
You might have this backwards: the ones who helped you were able to do so because you felt like you could open up to them. It’s all about the relationship.
CBT for actually getting out of a rut and sitting meditation (zazen) for staying out of it. There are many more things that help, like reducing alcohol and caffeine, regular exercise…. but meditation is what really changed the game for me.
I’d just recommend you start it with a qualified teacher. Or at least read up on it (I recommend https://www.mctb.org/ and “the mind illuminated”).
