anyone goes to therapy? does it help with your OCD and SZ?
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I talk with my social worker once a week and see my pdoc every two months. They’re the only people besides family that I really speak to in real life.
Therapy has been amazing for me. It restored my quality of life. Both psychotherapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
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It can help yes !
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what kind of symptoms did you had? my nurse said that it wont help me because of SZ - they gave me a option to start on sertraline
I dont know what to do lol
Have. Ongoing. Positive and negative symptoms. The positive symptoms are hearing alien communications and sounds and delusions about alien colonization of Earth. Negative symptoms are fatigue and avolition mostly. It is so hard to get going and keep going, but I push myself because my life is so much worse if I don’t.
Therapy helps me manage my stress level so I have fewer positive symptoms, and also be able to push the ones that remain aside and get on with my day. I have very strong insight because of the tools I was given in therapy.
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how long does it take to get better?
yes it should help little by little because it helps you learn about yourself and figure out how to deal with a lot of your personal issues.
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It can help with management of positive symptoms
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Started falling apart in 1992. Diagnosed with SZ a year or so later. Was working full-time again by 1999, but struggling with high doses of APs. Got into therapy about 15 years ago and it lets me do more on fewer meds with fewer side effects. It ramped up my quality of life so much. I need to take a high dose of meds to get rid of all of the positive symptoms and it leaves me unable to hold down a job. I have learned to tolerate some positive symptoms in exchange for living on less medication and being able to have a career. Therapy makes it possible for me to tolerate some positive symptoms.
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I was refused access to therapy, because of the psychoses, but I’d recommend it.
I did a lot of self-therapy by reading and writing about psychological stuff and talking with friends. I also used my home aid help as a surrogate therapist.
Something that helped me loads, was teaching myself mentalisation. And self-expression. I think it’s a lot easier if someone else teaches you…like a therapist.
I can manage symptoms a lot better and ask for help a lot better now than, say, 2 years ago.
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Also, your nurse is plain wrong. Her views are outdated. Research shows that therapy and EMDR can be useful in sz people…but they are often refused it. Because of prejudice.
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