- therapy teaches you to reframe, not change the event - they ask what do you mean. it can be what you believe, but not what you mean. socratic method, keep asking - therapy can just be validation - most things are out of the therapists control, especially when [[Mental health is declining because people genuinely do not have a life worth living]] - Therapy is about unde therapists spend most of their time just clarifying thought ## Types - [[Internal Family Systems (IFS)]] - [[Cognitive Behavioral Therapy]] - Most of these encourage you to engage in dialogue with yourself to better understand yourself by focusing on the vertical axis of dialogue — see [[Daimonion]] ## Resources richard schwartz