Does therapy actually work?
Months of sessions and you still can’t tell if they’re doing anything? What trials found, and what to try when you and your therapist don’t click.
Therapy and self‑help
Whether therapy works, what you can try on your own, and where to find help.
Therapy helps many people, though not everyone and often more slowly than they hope. In big studies of depression, people in therapy were more than twice as likely to be clearly better after two months as people who waited. Which kind of therapy you get matters less than you might think. Getting on with your therapist matters more.
Here you can read what those studies found and what to do when you and your therapist don't click.
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What is CBT? Is therapy just paying someone to listen?
A panic attack in a supermarket queue, a worksheet left blank and a brother who drives over: what CBT asks of you, and what the tests found.
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Relationships
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Relationships
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Anxiety and mood
Worry time: put your worries off until later
