At the end of the first season, Luara and Sophie ended the consultation halfway; Alex also ended the consultation halfway, and then the plane crashed; Jake and Amy, who were in marriage counseling because of another pregnancy, ended their divorce; Paul's own marriage finally broke down.
These clients seem to be in the same condition or worse after the counseling session. It's not that Paul's counseling was responsible for their deteriorating condition, and without counseling, I don't think their final condition would be any different from what they are now. But you can see that the limitations of psychological counseling are powerless. It requires you to keep digging inward, turning up painful memories, constantly examining yourself, and then crying in the dark and cramped counseling room. What's the use? Its only obvious use is to have a stranger listen to you, comfort you appropriately, have a relatively safe channel of expression, and then nothing will change.
In the penultimate conversation between Paul and Gina in the first season, Gina said that a psychiatrist helps people understand his feelings. When anxiety, fear, pain and other emotions come up, in addition to sitting on the sidelines and analyzing it, how can it be better? Paul's doubts are also my doubts after watching the show. There is a reason for the subconscious mind. Each of us has things that we don’t want to think about, maybe should not face, and force you to feel these things and examine yourself. Is this completely correct? Isn't life unexamined necessarily bad? Is it credible to give you advice based on hours of conversations and psychological theories from people who are not very familiar with how you live and where you live? Can Psychological Counseling Really Help?
Continue to watch the second season, I hope the doubts can be answered.
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