I'm a Therapist and Here's Why I Recommend "Fun" to My Patients
Over my years of training and professional work, I noticed an off-putting trend while conducting intakes with my patients. What I noticed was that many of these individuals had little, if anything, to say when it came to exploring hobbies and recreation. In fact, many were shocked, or even confused, that I’d inquire about this in an intake. Much of the recreation that my patients had described in their past was contained to their lives in secondary school and college. Once getting started on their career paths, many of my patients only held onto activities that could serve a dual purpose, such as exercise which is both beneficial to our physical health and (for some more than others) can be entertaining. I began to wonder to myself clinically, where did everyone’s hobbies go? And did it matter that they disappeared?
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