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Talk therapy

Across 937 answers, 4.6% said it changed their life and 49% said it helped a lot or more.

  • Life-changing
  • Big help
  • Slight help
  • Did nothing
  • Made it worse

Have you tried it?

Only answer if you've tried Talk therapy. What did it do for you?

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937 answers in total: 937 from surveys and 0 from this site.

  • Life-changing: 4.6%, 43 votes (43 from surveys, 0 from this site)
  • Big help: 45%, 420 votes (420 from surveys, 0 from this site)
  • Slight help: 25%, 230 votes (230 from surveys, 0 from this site)
  • Did nothing: 17%, 163 votes (163 from surveys, 0 from this site)
  • Made it worse: 8.6%, 81 votes (81 from surveys, 0 from this site)

Survey answers come from the SlateStarCodex 2019 survey, converted to these five answers.

More in Therapy & help

Talk therapy ranks #5 of 5 in Therapy & help for life-changing.

#ItemLife-changing
  1. 1Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT)10%88 votes
  2. 2EMDR therapy9.7%39 votes
  3. 3Psychodynamic therapy / psychoanalysis7.6%303 votes
  4. 4Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)5.9%1,003 votes
  5. 5Talk therapyThis page4.6%937 votes

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