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  exercise and diet won't help my mental health
  
  It actually didn't I did it for 3 years, it actually made things a lot worst which included an anxiety attack at the gym and the realization everyone is very shallow and self serving. I gained weight back pretty quick but my sleep was good. :/ I think a lot of this is the law of averages at play again. It assumes the average thing works for everyone. 
  I would recommend it for everyone to try but overweight people should definitely get another therapist who is familiar with weight loss before attempting diet and exercise for mental health. 
  I tried mindfulness and without clear written guidelines it's pretty useless.
context: It’s not necessarily going to work for you. My wife has a buzzing practice doing EMDR… which really helps patients with PTSD.
  Therapy helps you about as much as you want to help yourself. If you’re not willing to be vulnerable and let the clinician in, it’s not going to be effective. >
  
  It's a meditation technique, it's really not that difficult to explain... And yes, the goal is to gradually change the way your brain functions. That's not a straightforward thing to do, that's why there is a technique. And let me tell you, it takes effort and self-discipline to do for even 5 minutes a day, especially if you have issues like ADHD. If you think it's easy, try it out for a few weeks and see if it helps. What do you have to lose? >
  
  Mindfulness when implemented right, with effort and concious thought, will most likely improve your well being. So many therapeutic techniques get shut down by patients because they think they know better or something sounds like shit, trust me i know from experience. I'm telling you, trust your therapist. Actually attempt, whole heartedly, to do this. Commit to it. You'll never see results if you never let yourself try.
  This has the same energy as "exercise and diet won't help my mental health" and you ask what they've be doing and they went for a 5 minute walk 2 times and didn't feel immediately happy. No shit. It takes time and serious effort. It's not gonna change everything over night. It's gonna change little things over weeks. Months. But that adds up.