Dr. K

No, healing the symptoms- What alleviates the symptoms?

Symptoms are the fruit of the tree.

The illness is the tree.

Well, that depends on you.

So the reason people take medication is because they usually don't have the time, energy, or money to do the healing.

Yeah, and do psychotherapy.

So I think psychotherapy is the best evidence-based practice for healing something.

What's the difference between psychotherapy and talk therapy?

Psychotherapy is the broader umbrella of things that we call talk therapy.

And it's under, talk therapy is in psychotherapy.

Yes.

So much of psychotherapy is talking, but as an example, if you have something like OCD, we'll do something called exposure and response prevention.

Yeah, yeah.

So if you have a phobia of like, if you're claustrophobic, talking about how you're claustrophobic-

Well, start to feel terrified and then survive terror and then realize that terror is not to be feared.

Yeah.

You're not going to die.

You're not going to die.

Right.

And you don't die.