Therapy has shifted online due to the pandemic, but clients and therapists say they're still finding the experience to feel real and personal. This is why.
. Your therapist can help you feel understood and emotionally contained. Your very real feelings need not impair your capacity to act in your own best interests and to get through this difficult time with a hope for a better tomorrow.For many, the pandemic brings up terrible feelings and memories of other painful times in their lives. Your therapist can help you find a useful perspective.
Find your way to connect with others. Your need to communicate can transcend any limitations of distance therapy. In this past week, many of my patients seem better able to tell me what is going on inside themselves and in their worlds. At the same time, my capacity to take in and grasp what is being communicated seems to have expanded and deepened.
A new level of sensibility is developing, generating an even deeper understanding and sense of connection in the treatments. We human beings are adaptive creatures. When deprived of our usual ways of meaningfully engaging with others, we find a way. Finally, if you know someone who's becoming isolated, encourage them to discover and pursue their own ways.
Fred L. Griffin, M.D., is a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist in Dallas. He is on the faculty of the Dallas
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