I always see my pdoc every 3 months to update.
I’ve seen 2 therapists and I feel like they can’t really help me.
Maybe I’m wrong and should give it another chance.
How does your therapist help you. Are u satisfied ?
I always see my pdoc every 3 months to update.
I’ve seen 2 therapists and I feel like they can’t really help me.
Maybe I’m wrong and should give it another chance.
How does your therapist help you. Are u satisfied ?
I feel the same way.
It’s not often enough, and not enough ever comes of it.
Sometimes i feel that focusing on all the bad stuff
Brings it all up and actually makes things worse.
I feel crazier when i leave the docs.
i feel like they focus too much on the negative and
Don’t want to direct you towards the good things
Or suggest anything helpful .
I still keep going though, for lack of other options, and not much to lose
I tried therapy three years ago but it wasn’t helpful. I was particularly optimistic about DBT but I got a taste of it while inpatient and it didn’t help either. How am I supposed to control and redirect my thought patterns when my brain is all over the place?
I don’t see a therapist. I wouldn’t have anything to talk about. Maybe my delusions.
I found the Facebook profile of a Cognitive therapist in my area. I sent her a message saying that I am schizophrenic. She refused to help
Talk therapy does not do a lot for me, only once over the years have i had a good one, i just go because I need the meds to stay stable
I’ve had therapy all of my life. It was always necessary because I was an abused child and young woman and I was always severely depressed and suicidal. Now, I’m fast heading into my golden years and I finally don’t need therapy anymore. I quit it about three years ago. And I’m doing very good.
Help for me has been very slow. Personally I can’t see a change but pdoc says there is.
Pdocs have been a very small part of my treatment. I haven’t seen my pdoc at all this year, and probably just saw her an hour last year (which was above average). Talk therapy has been my main treatment. I wouldn’t have gotten this far without meds, but I certainly wouldn’t have gotten far without therapy, either.
I stopped my talk therapy because I felt steered in the wrong direction. I feel much better now, two weeks after ending it. In the end, you have to trust and rely on yourself.
Therapy can be hard. It makes sense that you would feel better after stopping, just like you would feel better after stopping a med that you haven’t gotten used to yet. But it’s also important that you find a good therapist that you work well with. It’s all too common to have a therapist that you don’t do well with. That won’t help much with your recovery.
I’ll shop around, thanks. I wish there were more male therapists in my area, and ones that take Medicare. Kind of limited here.
I get visits every few weeks. It helps when they take me on walks. We have good talks.
I think it is useless for me, I feel nothing and try to do my best. I found philosophy more supportive.
My psychologist has really helped me. He pushed me to get back in school after dropping out and volunteering and working and transferring again and stuff. At first I was looking to join a sheltered workshop and I was not even sure how I could get there cuz I couldn’t drive at the time. Then I thought that the most I could do was get an associates degree but probably never transfer. He kept telling me to try even when I thought I couldn’t. My future is looking a lot brighter now.
Did you know that existential psychoanalysis (after Sartre) is sometimes used in client-centered therapy? Good luck finding something like that where I live, tho.
Psychoanalysis is always more beneficial and profitable to the psychoanalyst than the patient.
My pdoc is a psychologist maybe it’s because after hearing about my interactions with the voices. They decided I needed a better doc now I see her about twice a month and she sees progress too.
I saw that you improved a lot too.
I’m just about to start therapy again. Had it before and it was ok. Didn’t feel any better but this time I’m going to really apply what I learn.