{"id":502,"date":"2023-01-10T15:36:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T14:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-siegen.de\/strongertogether\/?page_id=502"},"modified":"2023-01-10T16:30:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T15:30:10","slug":"psychotherapy-do-i-need-it","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-siegen.de\/strongertogether\/psychotherapy-do-i-need-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychotherapy &#8211; Do I need it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mental Illnesses<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Daily life is full of mental ups and downs. Some people can live well with their problems by talking to friends or letting off stress through a hobby or pastime. Others find it hard to restore that state of inner balance. If, even after several weeks, you find that you are struggling to move past a down cycle, it might help to seek support from a professional psychologist. Arrange an initial appointment with a psychotherapist to discuss your symptoms and receive professional advice about whether more extensive therapy is necessary. Your general practitioner can also help you identify whether you need help from a specialist. Because many mental illnesses are associated with physical symptoms, including stomach pain and poor sleep, doctors are trained to check whether your physical symptoms might have a mental origin. Where necessary, he or she can refer you to a specialist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Initial questions to ask yourself<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to understand more clearly whether you are a candidate for psychotherapy, answering the following questions may help you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Am I not myself? Do I feel different from how I usually feel?<\/li>\n<li>Does the way I\u2019ve changed bother me?<\/li>\n<li>Is there an explanation for the change?<\/li>\n<li>Does the explanation insufficiently account for the duration and severity of the trouble I\u2019m having?<\/li>\n<li>Has it become a struggle to perform my day-to-day work?<\/li>\n<li>Am I constantly worried and anxious?<\/li>\n<li>Do I suffer from any physical ailments?<\/li>\n<li>Do I have a sleeping disorder? Do I sleep too little or too much?<\/li>\n<li>Do I often feel aggressive, hateful or irritable, or am I very intolerant?<\/li>\n<li>Am I often on sick leave?<\/li>\n<li>Do I have suicidal thoughts?<\/li>\n<li>Do I hardly have anyone left to talk to about my problems?<\/li>\n<li>Does speaking to friends about how I\u2019m feeling no longer help?<\/li>\n<li>Is the change in me clearly noticeable to others, as well?<\/li>\n<li>Have I been feeling like this for more than three months?<\/li>\n<li>Am I ambivalent about everything?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Source: Rosemarie Piontek: Mut zur Ver\u00e4nderung Methoden und M\u00f6glichkeiten der Psychotherapie. Bonn, 2009)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mental Illnesses Daily life is full of mental ups and downs. Some people can live well with their problems by talking to friends or letting off stress through a hobby or pastime. Others find it hard to restore that state of inner balance. If, even after several weeks, you find that you are struggling to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-siegen.de\/strongertogether\/psychotherapy-do-i-need-it\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201ePsychotherapy &#8211; Do I need it?\u201c <\/span>weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":576,"featured_media":156,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-502","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-siegen.de\/strongertogether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-siegen.de\/strongertogether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-siegen.de\/strongertogether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-siegen.de\/strongertogether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/576"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-siegen.de\/strongertogether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-siegen.de\/strongertogether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-siegen.de\/strongertogether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/502\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-siegen.de\/strongertogether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-siegen.de\/strongertogether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}