EP009 All things Mental health

One of the things we've

spoke about and one of the things we practice at Mullins Therapy and with the Mullin Method is we never ask someone how they're feeling and to scale it.

Now, that might seem quite odd from therapy not to ask how you're feeling.

Why don't we do that? People will be saying, well, why don't you ask me how I feel? Why don't

we? It's just regressive.

It's going back and reliving their moments and drudging up a lot of bad thoughts, negative thinking, negative patterns.

And that was the one thing that shocked me when we first spoke because you never asked me what happened.

Yeah.

and that genuinely shocked me because I was expecting to have to describe everything that happened, go into detail, and the hospital diagnosing PTSD pretty much two, three days after the event because I was doing things that normal people wouldn't do in that time.

Yeah.

And when...

Our acquaintance set us up to do the therapy.

I was sort of a bit standoffish in the first call.

But then when I realized that we're not actually going into that, we're going into the what's the problem? What is the emotion? What is the image that you keep seeing? Because if you remember at the time, I had an image that wouldn't disappear.

Every time I closed my eyes, every time I blinked, I had this image of what had happened in my head.

And it was not, let's tell me about the image.

Tell me about what happened.

What are you seeing? None of that.

And that was the complete shock for me.

And it was the...

the realisation that not all therapy is blanketed the same.

I think the main problem when we sit down and we say to someone in therapy or looking to do therapy, how do you feel? The reason we don't really go into detail with it is because we know how they feel.

They're in a therapy room.

You don't go to therapy because you're full of the joys of spring and you're having a lovely time.

The second thing they'll do is on a scale of 1 to 10, how does that feel? Shit is shit.