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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: How does seeing a therapist actually help someone who is having a hard time coping with a situation?
gpt
Yes, *if* you believe therapy is helpful, *and* the techniques you're given work on you and you've never tried them before.

A lot of therapy is being able to talk through something and arrive at helpful conclusions.  Depending on your issues, a therapist may give you exercises to work through to help arrive at causes, and solutions to your problems.

In the end you do all the work.  Therapists don't solve things, but give you techniques to help yourself.  Not everyone has self-actualized their problems, and use assistance to find root causes of problems, and methods of resolution.

It's not all just sitting around talking about your mother, unless your mother is your problem, then you may have to talk about your mother a lot.