What is the point of going to therapy because you were abused as a child? How does it actually help? It's not like it can undo what happened to you or make it less damaging, so what's the point?

>>33381758 (OP)
Ideally a therapist would help you understand why and how your abuse is affecting you and what the best ways are for you to cope with / move on from it. That's if you get a good therapist. (Most of them are bad)

>>33381764
It permanently altered my sexuality so unless moving on from it means changing it back to normal I don't know what it would do for me.

For me, it was because my internal voice for everything was that I was a "fucking idiot" and even when I never thought of my parents I would think that internally about myself when I would tip over a glass of water or burn an egg, etc.

I entered a CBT program to combat social anxiety, did the assignments, and in that process, I came to find out that not only was that not how most people thought of me, that wasn't the default of how most people thought about themselves. I was then able to finally talk to girls, get gainful employment, and so on.

There's no fixing the actual abuse, as an adult you kind of just consciously have to not dwell and consciously divert yourself when the memory comes up, but therapy can help dial back the second order effects you didn't realize were coming from that history

>>33381771
Just because you don't know what it would do doesn't mean it won't do anything. No offense anon, but I'm gonna assume you're not the smartest person on earth. And theres always more to learn, even about yourself. BTW I'm not pushing you to go to therapy, like I said most of them are bad. But dont just assume you already know better.

>>33381779
You went to a cock and ball torture program?