This is an essential truth for mental health professionals—the whole family that’s in therapy is desperately trying to get the one individual to make some changes, and nothing is going to happen if all he’s doing is staring sullenly at the Siggie Freud action figure on the shrink’s bookshelf. But once you sincerely want to change, the mere act of making an effort can do wonders. For example, clinically depressed people feel significantly better simply by scheduling a first appointment to see a therapist—it means they’ve recognized there’s a problem, it means they’ve fought their way up through
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