Ask HN: Email Therapy
I'm depressed and judging by posts as of late (see below), chances are, so are you.
I go to talk therapy and it's okay. Some sessions have been life saving. But the vast majority of my sessions frankly are a waste of time. The biggest waste of time - I feel - is frequently having to re-explain things. I wish I could go all "omg rtfm" to my therapist, but that's not an option - being the nature of talk therapy and all.
Have any of you considered Email Therapy[1]? The idea being you don't communicate with your therapist via spoken word (in person, phone call, zoom, etc.). Rather you communicate via written word (email, text, slack, or go full A. Ham with a written letter).
I see very little mention of it on HN over the years [2]. Therefore, I feel like it's not a well known thing in the community. And shit, I'm right there with you, I have been going to talk therapy for 20 years and today is the first day I heard of Email Therapy.
I'm going to give it a try. I'm thinking I'll ask my current therapist if they would like to convert to this form. Otherwise, I'll be looking for therapists that do offer such a service.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_counseling [2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=email%20therapy&sort=byPopularity&type=story
The posts as of late. I wish you all strength.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30668506 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30923701 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30862058 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31039849 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30132560