Anyone try therapy, and it not work

I wish I could say therapy worked for me, I really wanted it to work, but maybe I was not the right time to do it or it just doesn’t work for me and made me feel far worse… I really tried to hold on to my job through CBT, it just. made me miserable.

edit: I just removed the autistic bit out of the title because I guess it might not work for others as well.

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Therapy is like any other treatment - works for some but not others. I totally get there is a slight unconscious bias within patient groups that is if didn’t work it means you didn’t try hard enough. This is of course not true

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I tried EMDR online as well with the therapist, I completely failed thats when she suggested I might be autistic and then I’ve just been forgettoin about no more therapY.

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I have only done CBT for both mood and psychosis. Both times it made me have thoughts of suicide.

Basically therapy is totally not for everyone

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My job makes me miserable all the time. If it was fun I would have to pay them to do it. They pay me to do it because no rational person would willingly deal with my clients for free. Of course work makes you unhappy.

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I guess I need to work on not caring what others think in the workplace.

Fixed it for you.

:grin:

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I think self expression is helpful for everyone

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I’m guessing you also did CBT :slight_smile:

I do CBT exercises daily. It is one of the most effective tools in my kit, but only with ongoing work on it. I stop doing CBT and I put myself at risk of losing insight. CBT is what allows me to tolerate the level of positive symptoms I have.

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The quality of the therapy here on the NHS was not matched by how long they made me wait for it

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I’ve had a couple therapists, and neither worked for me. I think I have trouble opening up about my symptoms to utter strangers face-to-face.

I have a really good pdoc, though. He’s kinda like a therapist, but without being as…intense. Glad I found a good pdoc that I like

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I feel the same but I also feel it was partly my inability to engage with therapy as best as I could have done.

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Therapy made me obsess about the past.

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I have found someone to talk to weekly there is nothing I cant talk about. Nothing is off limits. It has helped me stabilize and focus on doing things and accomplishing things.

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