How Counselling Helps When You Don’t Know What’s Wrong
Not everyone who seeks counselling can name what’s wrong. Some simply say, “I just don’t feel like myself.”
These can often be the people who benefit most from therapy. Because the truth is, the causes of our distress are rarely obvious. What we describe as stress or tiredness may carry something unspoken; grief, fear, loneliness, or conflict that hasn’t yet found language.
Counselling provides a space to begin finding those words. You don’t need a diagnosis or a tidy explanation to begin. The act of speaking itself, of trying to articulate what feels off, shapes and allows something to shift.
In psychoanalytic thought, what feels “wrong” is often not an illness but a message. A way the mind communicates what has been pushed aside. Counselling helps you to discover this.
When people stop asking “what’s wrong with me?” and begin asking “what is this trying to tell me?”, they often find a new sense of direction.
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- Jacques Lacan, Seminar XI: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
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