Psychotherapy Instructions
Things you need to know when looking for psychotherapy/psychiatrist in Hong Kong
Misunderstandings about psychotherapy/psychiatrists
Why can’t psychiatric drugs, psychological counseling, and psychiatrists always cure emotional illnesses?
There is currently no profession in Hong Kong called psychiatrist or psychotherapist, especially psychiatrists do not exist. The so-called psychiatrist and psychotherapy are just general professions that help people deal with psychological problems. Generally, people looking for psychological treatment will probably find the following professional help.
1. Psychiatrist
2. Psychological Counseling
3. Psychologist
4. Hypnosis treat
Things to read before seeking psychotherapy
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Classification and characteristics of psychotherapy/psychiatrists
Psychiatrist introduction
Psychiatrist is one of the professions that can easily be misunderstood as a psychologist.
But in fact, psychiatrists do not use psychological methods to treat psychological problems. They use physical methods to treat psychological problems.
Psychiatrists have the largest market share. This is because people have been educated since childhood and generally believe that "if you are sick, see a doctor." In recent years, social education and publicity have shown that psychological and emotional problems are also illnesses. See a doctor. People are often referred to psychiatrists. Some people who see private psychiatrists think that psychiatrists are too expensive, and then switch to psychiatrists in public hospitals. Public psychiatrists usually prescribe medication for two months, while private psychiatrists usually It’s about personal style and business methods.
The psychiatrist's diagnosis is based on the fifth volume of the Manual of Mental Disorders and Statistics. The Manual of Mental Disorders and Statistics lists the names of various mood disorders and the characteristics of each mood disorder. Diagnostic methods generally use some questionnaires or questions and answers to collect the patient's (case's) symptoms (for example, how many times a week are you unhappy? Do you have insomnia? etc.) to determine what kind of emotional illness he suffers from based on his characteristic symptoms.
This is a common diagnosis method of Western medicine. For example, if you have a cough, runny nose, sneezing, and fever, you have a cold. Treatment of colds is mostly symptomatic treatment. The doctor will prescribe cough medicine, nose water medicine, and antipyretic medicine.
However, this diagnostic method will be criticized, because the cause of emotional illness is not caused by physics or germs, but by our hearts experiencing setbacks and pressures that cause problems.
Psychiatrists often diagnose low mood and depressionDepression, tension and anxiety are Anxiety disorder, having uncontrollable fears The feeling is panic disorder, and the inability to sleep or not sleeping well is Insomnia. This is a kind of labeling in which the effect is the cause. They think it is because ofDepression, so the patient is depressed. Depression is because the patient has insufficient serotonin, so just take serotonin. .
As a result, the patient started taking medication for two months, a year or even ten years without being tested for serotonin deficiency. This was because he initially had a psychological reason for depression, which was not taken seriously, and he was taking medication for a long time. The patient's braincannot secrete serotonin normally and he becomes a person who is dependent on drugs for life.
William Osler, the father of modern medicine, said
"One of the important responsibilities of physicians is to educate the public not to take medicine."
In the last century, the use of psychiatric drugs was a very cautious matter. Its original purpose was to quickly stabilize a person with extreme emotions so that he could receive clinical psychotherapy in his mental state. >, imagine if a person who is ready to commit suicide at any time or who cannot go out cannot complete a clinical psychological treatment at all, so drugs will provide assistance at this time.
Psychiatric drugs were originally only used to provide auxiliary effects in the treatment of serious patients, but now they have become mainstream medical treatment. Why?
1. Pharmaceutical companies need to make money
Now the entire medical system is controlled by pharmaceutical companies, and even the textbooks for doctors (such as the Manual of Mental Disorders and Statistics) are funded by pharmaceutical companies. If psychiatric drugs are cautiously prescribed as an auxiliary prescription as they were in the last century, patients will not Will rely heavily on drugs. If clinical psychotherapy alone can treat patients, drugs will not be needed for treatment. Therefore, under the current system, clinical psychologists who understand psychotherapy do not have the qualifications to be doctors.
2. Traditional psychotherapy is inefficient
Psychotherapy is generally charged based on the number of meetings. It may take more than ten meetings to see results, which is far slower than taking medicine. If you take it in the morning, you will see changes in the afternoon.
3. Emotional problems are not your problem, they are your illness.
If your emotional problems are your problem, the responsibility lies with you. If emotional problems are a disease, you have no responsibility. You are the victim and there is nothing you can do about it. Just like your son doesn't like to read, he has poor concentration and low ability, you will feel shameless. But if the doctor says he has ADHD, your son will be a smart victim. You are willing to accept this fact, because this is not your education. The responsibility is not that he is bad, nor does he want to. It is a matter of helplessness and can be left to the doctor. This kind of marketing is very suitable for the urban population, because people would rather accept that they are sick than admit that they are incompetent.
Disadvantages of Psychiatric Medications
1. Side effects of psychiatric drugs
Many patients who take psychiatric medications report experiencing drowsiness, fatigue, hand tremors, weight gain, and restlessness after taking them. Impact on life and work
2. Psychiatric drugs may delay effective treatment
Psychiatric drugs use chemical and physical methods to change the way you feel internally or physically, giving people with mood disorders the illusion of being treated or even recovered. But medicine for the heart requires medicine for the heart. Patients with emotional illnesses start to settle for taking medicine without negative emotions, without facing the origin of their emotions, just like people without toothache will not go to the dentist.
3. Psychiatric drugs can cause dependence
Since the real root cause of the problem has not been solved, patients with mood disorders need serotonin and other substances to control their emotions. Without the help of these drugs, they will feel more anxious, just like people who have been taking sleeping pills for a long time and can only rely on sleeping pills to sleep. When I take sleeping pills, I already think that I can't fall asleep, and I feel restless and nervous.
4. Psychiatric drugs may worsen the problem
The human body can naturally produce serotonin. For example, people who have long-term exercise habits are generally happier because exercise can help the body produce serotonin. If you rely on psychiatric drugs to absorb serotonin (or other conductors) for a long time, the brain will no longer produce serotonin, and may even lose the ability to produce serotonin on its own. Therefore, when the medication is stopped, patients with mood disorders will feel a bigger problem because the original problem has not been cured and they have lost their ability to balance conductors.
5. Limited diagnostic time
This problem is more common in public psychiatrists. Many cases stated that they saw a psychiatrist and did not spend much time talking to the doctor. They even finished in about 5 minutes. After that, they took 2 months' worth of psychiatric drugs and went home.
6. Without using physical methods to measure, psychological problems are judged as physical problems
Psychiatric interviews and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders standards allow the diagnosis of mood problems and their treatment with medications such as serotonin tranquilizers.
However, the neurotransmitter in the brain is not only serotonin, but there are also more than hundreds of dopamine and adrenaline. How can a psychiatrist conclude that it is a deficiency of serotonin rather than hundreds of other neurotransmitters in the brain? insufficient?
Benefits of Psychiatry
1. Quick effect
Although psychiatric drugs cannot cure the problem, they affect the neurotransmitters in the brain, and changes in the substances in the brain can directly affect mood.
2. Easy access
Generally, family doctors/hospitals will refer non-physical illnesses to psychiatrists, and private psychiatrists are also easy to find.
3. Cheap and low cost
Psychiatric drugs are not cheap, but the government subsidizes most of the cost. In terms of time (one month), it is the cheapest of all treatments.
How long does it take to see a psychiatrist? How much does psychiatry cost?
Because the drug controls your brain conductors, it may be effective after taking the drug once, and the symptoms can be alleviated quickly, but pathologically, the problem cannot be cured even if it is taken for a lifetime.
The fee for one psychiatric consultation + medication is $1,000-2,000. The medication lasts from 2 weeks to 2 months. Some people start reducing the medication after a few years, and some continue to increase the medication after more than ten years.
psychological counseling
Psychological counseling is psychological treatment in the form of interviews. Psychological counselors must have a high degree of empathy in order to gain the trust and investment of patients with emotional illnesses.
In the impression of Hong Kong people, psychological counseling is equal to social work. All social workers in Hong Kong learn basic psychological counseling (30 hours) in the course. Hong Kong schools have registered social workers, so psychological counseling has also become an introduction to psychotherapy. Social workers and psychological counselors are in different grades. Many senior psychological counselors choose to pursue additional studies. However, under the current registration system, it is not easy for patients with emotional disorders to distinguish the degree of further studies between social workers and psychological counselors. Psychological counseling is a popular concept. In fact, good psychological counseling can allow patients with emotional illnesses to vent their negative feelings. Some psychological counselors will educate patients with emotional illnesses on what to do to alleviate their problems.
Benefits of psychological counseling:
Psychological counseling is a patient listener
Compared with a 5-15 minute consultation with a psychiatrist, psychological counseling can take anywhere from 30-60 minutes. The counselor is highly empathetic and patiently listens to your feelings.
Psychological counseling allows patients with emotional illness to find catharsis
If you (a patient with emotional illness) need to vent your negative emotions, psychological counseling is definitely the best choice. Psychological counseling is the role closest to a friend.
Counselors are long-term supporters
Several patients with emotional illness said that their psychological counselors are very good and supportive. They have followed them for several years, even more than ten years, and are very good friends.
Psychological counseling without drug side effects
Psychological counselors can relieve the negative emotions of patients with mood disorders without any drugs and without any side effects.
Weaknesses of psychological counseling
The communication between psychological counseling and emotional patients can only be handled at the conscious level. If the problems of emotional patients come from the subconscious, the therapeutic effect of psychological counseling will be compromised and the problem cannot be cured. Therefore, it is very common for patients with emotional diseases to seek psychological counseling. Afterwards, his feelings and expressions will improve significantly, but after a period of time his problems or negative emotions will come back and repeat themselves. Therefore, many patients with emotional illnesses may see psychological counselors for several or more years.
How long does it take to see psychological counseling? How much does it cost?
If your problem does not involve the source of the subconscious mind, it will be effective in a few months. Otherwise, psychological counseling may be required to follow up for several years.
How much does psychological counseling cost?
Relatively entry-level, several hundred to one thousand per time
clinical psychologist
Clinical psychologist is the profession most likely to be misunderstood as a psychologist, but clinical psychologists are not doctors and do not have a medical license. However, the nature of work of clinical psychologists does match the title of psychiatrist. They use psychological methods to deal with psychological problems, unlike psychiatrists who use physical methods to deal with psychological problems.
Freud, the originator of psychology, believed that many of our problems come from subconscious repression, but he denied hypnotherapy, the easiest and most direct way to access the subconscious.
Freud, the originator of psychology, believed that many of our problems come from subconscious repression, but he denied hypnotherapy, the easiest and most direct way to access the subconscious.
Clinical psychologists use many methods. Cognitive behavioral therapy is one of the most important methods in Hong Kong. Cognitive behavioral therapy allows patients with emotional disorders to understand that their emotions or actions are unreasonable (for example: I am stressed) When this happens, they will continue to eat wild food.) Afterwards, clinical psychologists can educate patients with emotional disorders to have new thoughts or actions (but in fact, whether there is stress or not has nothing to do with whether they eat wild food or not. Next time I feel stressed, I can do exercise)
Look at the characteristics of clinical psychologists
Clinical psychologists treat patients with emotional disorders in their conscious mind. If the patient's emotions originate from the subconscious mind, the efficiency of clinical psychotherapy will be quite low, because clinical psychologists communicate with the patient's conscious mind in order to achieve expectations. To let the subconscious things come out, it often takes many meetings to achieve results.
Clinical psychologists give people a more professional impression. This professional impression usually comes with professional fees, which are usually 1,500-2,000 per session. Because it takes many meetings to achieve results, it is difficult for ordinary people to afford it.
Hypnotherapists can cure emotional problems
The biggest difference between hypnotherapists and other psychotherapists or doctors is their emphasis on and manipulation of the subconscious mind.
Psychiatrists almost deny the existence of the subconscious mind, believing that emotional problems are simply caused by an imbalance of conductive substances in the brain.
Only some schools of clinical psychology agree that the subconscious mind is important, that is, they agree with the existence of the subconscious mind. They also believe that hypnosis is just some unappreciated techniques. They believe that "fangjian" (always add the word "fangfian") Hypnotherapists are not professional.
Why emphasize the subconscious mind
Your heart is like a house, divided into two parts: the hall and the room. There is garbage hidden in your room. The garbage accumulates over time and emits a smell that spreads out of the hall. What will you do when you smell the stench in the hall?
a. Spray air freshener?
b. Enter the house and clean up the trash?
The hall represents the conscious mind, and the room represents the subconscious mind. Negative thoughts are garbage hidden in the subconscious mind. The odor represents negative emotions such as depression and anxiety. Psychiatric drugs are air fresheners. People who use air fresheners every day have no problems after using them for more than ten years. Improvement, and once the medication is stopped, the condition becomes worse than fellow Taoists. Being accustomed to air fresheners, they will feel the stench even more than before, because the garbage dump has not been cleaned for ten years. Counselors and clinical psychologists will be in the halls to teach you, enlighten you, and even clean up the stench.
Therefore, the author has successfully dealt with many patients with emotional illnesses who have seen psychiatric counseling and clinical psychologists, but the results have not been effective.
For example: A patient with an emotional illness has rationally understood that eating and stress are two different things, but still cannot control her emotions or appetite. It may be that in her forgotten childhood memories, her feeling of eating is connected with the happiness of her relatives. But her reason (consciousness) doesn't know it, because the connection is hidden deep in her subconscious.
Our hypnotherapists do not educate emotional patients.
Another biggest difference between hypnotherapy and psychotherapy such as clinical psychologists or counseling is that we do not educate emotional patients. Other psychotherapists and even other hypnotists will do educational work, such as teaching you how to do deep breathing when you're in the mood and exercise when you want to eat.
But we (Hong Kong Hypnotherapy Center) believe that a patient with emotional illness is in a state of emotional problems because there is a conflict between his subconscious mind and his conscious mind, and the two are not completely connected. We believe that a person's problems are caused by themselves, that is, a person can recover on his own, just like a cold can recover on his own. We believe that non-intervention and no education are the best ways to recover. Our job is just to open the door (subconscious mind) and find out the root cause of the problem.
Weaknesses of hypnotherapy
Hypnosis is a method of connecting to the subconscious. Hypnotherapy requires patients with emotional illnesses to enter a hypnotic state. Hypnosis is a state of connecting to the subconscious. If the subconscious can be connected, most emotional problems can be cured. If hypnotherapy cannot be connected, hypnosis is a method of connecting to the subconscious. It will be difficult to achieve success, that is, the so-called hypnosis is unsuccessful.
A small number of people have difficulty entering a hypnotic state. Factors involved include age, personality, trust and even IQ. So we can conclude that if it is effective, it will have obvious results after seeing it once. If the first session fails to achieve results, the main reason is that the person cannot be hypnotized. In this case, there is no need for a second session.
We provide a fair and economical treatment plan. A full course of treatment can be completed three times for a total charge of only $3,600. Your problem can be completely improved. We are quite confident that your problem can be completely or significantly improved within three visits. We also tell you very conscientiously that if we can't help you, we will let you know after one visit. We will refund 2,600 and only take back the 2 hours of service for the first visit.
Please call 9309 4093, we provide a professional 15-minute free consultation
Reasonable charges: The total fee is $4500, no hidden charges
0 side effects: no medicine, no intervention
Super efficient: effective after 1 time, complete improvement after 3 times
Conscience: you will know immediately if you can’t help. Never procrastinate
(Those who often see doctors will understand that this is very important)
Why hypnosis doesn’t get good reviews
Big pharmaceutical companies are very afraid of the popularity of hypnotherapy, because if hypnotherapy becomes popular, the profits of pharmaceutical companies will be greatly reduced, or even go bankrupt. Therefore, hypnotherapy is often belittled or even counter-propagandaed by the media. When the media mentions hypnotherapists, they never use the word "professional clinical" and always use the word "anecdotal" in front of hypnotherapists. Hypnosis in movies is often associated with crime, control, or danger.