Therapy's roll

A psychologist is trained to identify certain traits while listening to a person talk, and knows how to translate body language as well. If a person wants to change, the psychologist can help that person explore the reasons he or she is doing whatever it is that's not-good, and may be able to suggest time-proven ways, or tools if you like, of dealing with things without using the not-good behavior.  After all, behavior is learned, so in a person  of typical intelligence and ability it can be unlearned.  While realizing that personality is inborn, I think babies, as they grow, are taught responses to feelings by example.  Hate towards those who are different from you doesn't just grow naturally but is taught, and, minus physiological factors such as Tourette Syndrome or ADHD, so is violence or anxiety or over-fearfullness. Sometimes realizing that your anger or other emotion is identified with something deep within your past helps you to

Therapy is not very effective. It takes too much and for some people..you they get even worse.

For a quick fix and destroying negative emotions..test the following exercise:(it takes less than 10 minutes and you will feel some changes)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/3259726/Approach-Anxiety

Make sure that you are applying exactly the techniques. 

After a long, long day, It's my guess that a Psychologist goes to see his own Psychologist, Just kidding. Great answer james9,and very helpful too.

Doug.

A therapist can only help a person who is able to reason.  Further, you cannot be helped unless you stay in counseling long enough.  You cannot take life attitudes and perceptions and change them that easily.  It takes work and you have to love yourself enough to work through it.  It means experiencing bad things all over again as you talk about the problems but in the end, you are healed because you start looking at things from a different perspective.  It is like you began thinking at say, 6:00 and your thinking gets changed to where you now think like 9:00, if that can make sense to you.  You cannot play victim if you expect to get help and you also have to love yourself enough to know you are worth a better self esteem and a better perception.  Putting your "I" over your "E" (intellect over your emotions).  Hope this helps.

It helps to read books too, also if you have faith in God, a book that helped me cope with anything is a book or any books by Joel Osteen "Become a Better you" I saw him when he was in Kansas city this year he's awesome. But actually if you want to help yourself, you can try anything and remember,  you always have a choice in life..........

I believe therapy gives you the right tools and guidance you need to overcome what you went to the psychiatrist for but, only you have the power to change yourself by wanting to change and having faith that you'll change, embracing it as if you had already achieved it.